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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002Python News
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Anthony Baxterb0c66302004-11-04 05:23:17 +00005(editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.)
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Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00007What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
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9
10*Release date: XX-June-2008*
11
12Core and Builtins
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14
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +000015- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
16 intersection() and intersection_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +000017
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +000018- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
19
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +000020- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
21
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +000022- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
23
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +000024- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
25
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000026- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
27 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
28 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
29 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +000030
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +000031- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
32
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000033- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
34 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +000035
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000036- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
37 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +000038
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000039- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
40 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
41 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +000042
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +000043Extension Modules
44-----------------
45
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +000046- Issue #2138: Add factorial() the math module.
47
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +000048- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
49 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
50
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +000051- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
52 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
53
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +000054- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
55 weakref.proxy.
56
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000057- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
58 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +000059
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +000060- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +000061
Jesus Ceaca3939c2008-05-22 15:27:38 +000062- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.0.
63 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.0
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +000064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000065- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
66 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
67 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +000068
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +000069- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
70 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
71 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
72
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000073- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +000074
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +000075- Added a threading.Thread.getIdent() method.
76
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +000077Library
78-------
79
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +000080- Added the ast module.
81
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +000082- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
83 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
84
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +000085- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
86 to errno.
87
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +000088- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface
89
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +000090- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
91 msilib.Record objects.
92
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +000093- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
94 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
95
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +000096- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
97 in Python 3.0.
98
99- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
100 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +0000101
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +0000102- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
103 False boolean value now.
104
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +0000105- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
106 transfers.
107
108- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
109 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +0000110
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +0000111- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
112 when the TarFile is closed.
113
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +0000114- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
115 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
116 an exception.
117
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +0000118- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
119 otherwise be produced.
120
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +0000121- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
122 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
123
124- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
125 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
126
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +0000127- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
128 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
129 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
130
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +0000131- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
132
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000133- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +0000134 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
135 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
136 'm' or 'c'.
137
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +0000138- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
139
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000140- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
141 removal in Python 3.0.
142
143- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
144 3.0.
145
146- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
147 3.0.
148
149- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
150 3.0.
151
152- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +0000153 Python 3.0.
154
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +0000155- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
156 Python 3.0.
157
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000158- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
159 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +0000160
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000161- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
162 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +0000163
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000164- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
165 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +0000166
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000167- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
168 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +0000169
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000170- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +0000171 Python 3.0.
172
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000173- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
174 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +0000175
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000176- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
177 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +0000178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000179- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
180 3.0.
181
182- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
183 removal in Python 3.0.
184
185- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
186 3.0.
187
188- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
189 3.0.
190
191- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
192 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +0000193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000194- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
195 removal in Python 3.0.
196
197- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +0000198 Python 3.0.
199
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000200- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
201 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +0000202
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +0000203- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
204 Python 3.0.
205
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +0000206- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
207 Python 3.0.
208
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000209- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +0000210
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +0000211- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
212
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +0000213- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
214
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +0000215- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
216
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +0000217- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
218
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000219- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
220 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
221 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +0000222
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000223- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
224 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +0000225
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +0000226- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
227
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000228- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
229 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +0000230
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +0000231- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
232
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +0000233- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
234
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +0000235- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
236
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +0000237- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
238
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +0000239- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
240
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000241- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
242 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +0000243
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +0000244- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
245
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +0000246- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
247
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +0000248- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
249 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
250 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
251 OverflowError.
252
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +0000253- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
254
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000255- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
256 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +0000257
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +0000258- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
259
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +0000260- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
261
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +0000262- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
263
264- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +0000265
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +0000266- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
267
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +0000268- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
269
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +0000270- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
271
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +0000272- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +0000273
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000274- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
275 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +0000276
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +0000277- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
278 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
279 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
280 of Python.
281
282- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
283 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
284
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +0000285Build
286-----
287
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +0000288- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
289
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +0000290- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
291
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +0000292- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
293 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
294 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary)
295
296 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
297
298 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
299
300 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
301
302 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
303
304 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
305
306 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
307
308
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +0000309C API
310-----
311
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +0000312- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
313
314- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +0000315
316- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
317 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
318 PyString names.
319
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +0000320
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000321What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +0000322=================================
323
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +0000324*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +0000325
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +0000326Core and builtins
327-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +0000328
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +0000329- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
330
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000331- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
332 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +0000333
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000334- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
335 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +0000336
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000337- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +0000338
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +0000339Extension Modules
340-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000341
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000342- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
343 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +0000344
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +0000345- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000347- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
348 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +0000349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000350- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
351 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +0000352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000353- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
354 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +0000355
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000356- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
357 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
358 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
359 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
360 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
361 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
362 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
363 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +0000364
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000365Library
366-------
367
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +0000368- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
369
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000370- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
371 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +0000372
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +0000373- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
374
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000375- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
376 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +0000377
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +0000378- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
379 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
380 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
381
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +0000382- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
383 data types
384
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +0000385- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +0000386 reference to themselves.
387
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +0000388- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
389 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
390 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +0000391
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +0000392- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
393 1900-01-01.
394
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +0000395- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
396 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
397
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +0000398- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
399 now implemented in C for better performance.
400
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000401- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
402 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
403 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +0000404
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000405- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +0000406 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
407 build documentation for more information.
408
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +0000409- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
410 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
411 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
412 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
413
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +0000414- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
415 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
416 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
417
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000418- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
419 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
420 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
421 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +0000422
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000423Tests
424-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +0000425
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000426- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
427 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
428 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
429 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
430 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
431 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
432 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
433 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
434 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
435 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
436 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
437 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
438 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
439 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
440 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
441 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
442 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
443 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
444 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
445 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
446
447 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
448 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
449 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
450 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
451 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
452 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
453 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
454 access to the underlying socket used.
455
456 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
457 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
458 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +0000459
460 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000461 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +0000462 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
463 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
464
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000465 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
466 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000467
468Build
469-----
470
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +0000471- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
472
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +0000473- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
474 gcc is used as compiler.
475
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +0000476- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000477 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +0000478
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000479C API
480-----
481
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000482- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
483 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
484 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
485 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +0000486
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +0000487- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +0000488
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000489
490What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
491=================================
492
493*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
494
495Core and builtins
496-----------------
497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000498- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
499 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
500 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +0000501
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +0000502- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
503 cannot be executed.
504
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +0000505- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
506 reference on the outer class name.
507
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +0000508- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000509 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +0000510
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000511- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
512 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +0000513
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +0000514- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +0000515
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +0000516- Added backport of bytearray type.
517
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +0000518- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
519
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +0000520- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000521 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
522 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
523 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
524 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
525 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +0000526
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +0000527- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
528
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000529- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
530 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +0000531
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +0000532- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +0000533
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +0000534- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
535
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000536- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
537 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +0000538
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000539- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
540 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +0000541
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000542- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +0000543 exception instances.
544
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +0000545- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000546 doesn't derive from BaseException.
547
548- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
549 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +0000550
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +0000551- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
552 memory usage in some circumstances.
553
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000554- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
555 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
556 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +0000557
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +0000558- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
559
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000560- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +0000561 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
562 longer passed.
563
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +0000564- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
565
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000566- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
567 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
568 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +0000569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000570- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
571 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +0000572
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +0000573- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
574
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +0000575Extension Modules
576-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +0000577
578- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
579
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +0000580Library
581-------
582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000583- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
584 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000585
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000586- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
587 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
588 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000589
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000590- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
591 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000592
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000593- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
594 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
595 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +0000596
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000597- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
598 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +0000599
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +0000600- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
601
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +0000602- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
603 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
604 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
605
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +0000606- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
607
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +0000608- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
609 advertised in the docs.
610
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000611- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +0000612
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000613- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +0000614
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000615- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
616 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +0000617
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +0000618- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
619 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
620
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000621- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
622 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +0000623 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
624 information as well.
625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000626- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
627 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +0000628
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000629- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
630 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +0000631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000632- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
633 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
634 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +0000635
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +0000636- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
637 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
638 strftime.
639
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +0000640- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000641 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
642 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +0000643
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +0000644- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
645 correctly under win32
646
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000647- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +0000648
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +0000649- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000650 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
651 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
652 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +0000653
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +0000654- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
655 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
656
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000657- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
658 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +0000659
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000660- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
661 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
662 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +0000663
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000664- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +0000665 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
666
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +0000667- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
668 from 't' to '?'.
669
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +0000670- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
671 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000672 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
673 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
674 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +0000675
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000676- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
677 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +0000678
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +0000679Tests
680-----
681
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000682- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
683 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +0000684
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +0000685- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
686
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +0000687- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
688
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +0000689- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
690
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +0000691- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
692
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000693- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
694 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +0000695
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +0000696- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
697
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +0000698- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000700- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
701 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +0000702
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +0000703- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
704
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +0000705- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
706
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +0000707- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
708 permission to create files in the root directory.
709
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +0000710Build
711-----
712
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +0000713- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
714
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000715- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
716 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +0000717
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +0000718- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +0000719
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +0000720C API
721-----
722
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000723- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000724 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
725
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +0000726
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +0000727What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
728=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +0000729
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +0000730*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +0000731
732Core and builtins
733-----------------
734
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +0000735- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +0000736 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +0000737
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +0000738- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
739
740- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +0000741
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000742- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +0000743 issue 215555 for a discussion.
744
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +0000745- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
746 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
747 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
748 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
749 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
750 module is:
751 from future_builtins import hex, oct
752
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +0000753- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
754 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
755 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
756 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
757 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
758 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
759
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +0000760- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
761 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
762 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
763 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
764 PyObject_Format().
765
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000766- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
767 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
768 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +0000769
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000770- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000771 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
772 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +0000773
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000774- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
775 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +0000776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000777- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
778 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
779 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +0000780
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000781- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
782 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
783 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +0000784
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +0000785- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
786 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
787
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000788- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
789 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +0000790
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000791- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
792 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +0000793 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
794
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000795- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
796 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
797 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +0000798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000799- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
800 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +0000801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000802- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
803 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +0000804
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000805- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
806 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +0000807
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000808- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
809 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +0000810
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000811- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
812 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
813 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +0000814
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000815- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
816 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
817 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
818 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +0000819
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +0000820- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
821 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
822 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
823
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +0000824- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +0000825 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
826 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
827
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000828- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +0000829 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
830 support.
831
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +0000832- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
833 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
834
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +0000835- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
836
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +0000837- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +0000838 added.
839
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +0000840- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
841 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
842
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000843- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
844 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +0000845
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000846- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
847 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
848 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +0000849
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000850- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
851 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +0000852
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +0000853- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
854 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +0000855
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +0000856- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000858- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
859 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
860 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +0000861
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000862- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
863 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
864 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +0000865
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000866- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +0000867
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000868- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
869 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +0000870
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +0000871- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000872 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
873 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +0000874
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000875- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
876 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
877 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
878 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +0000879
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000880- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +0000881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000882- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
883 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +0000884
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000885- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
886 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +0000887
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +0000888- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +0000889 SystemError.
890
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +0000891- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
892 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
893 __package__ attribute.
894
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000895- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
896 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
897 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +0000898
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +0000899- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
900
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000901- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +0000902 attribute of an empty cell object.
903
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000904- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
905 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +0000906
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000907- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
908 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
909 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
910 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +0000911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000912- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
913 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
914 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +0000915
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +0000916- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
917
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +0000918- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
919
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +0000920- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
921
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000922- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
923 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
924 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +0000925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000926- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
927 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
928 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
929 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
930 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
931 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +0000932
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000933- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
934 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
935 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
936 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
937 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +0000938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000939- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
940 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
941 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +0000942
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000943- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
944 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +0000945
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +0000946- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000947 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
948 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
949 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
950 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
951 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +0000952
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000953- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
954 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +0000955
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +0000956- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
957 with %G.
958
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000959- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
960 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +0000961
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000962- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +0000963
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000964- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +0000965
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +0000966- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000967 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
968 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +0000969
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +0000970- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
971 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
972
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +0000973- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
974 calls.
975
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +0000976- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000977 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
978 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +0000979
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +0000980- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
981
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000982- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +0000983 inherited from a builtin base.
984
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +0000985- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +0000986 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
987
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +0000988- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
989
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +0000990- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
991 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
992 remaining characters.
993
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +0000994- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
995 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
996
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +0000997- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
998
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +0000999- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
1000 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
1001 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
1002 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
1003 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00001004 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
1005 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00001006
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001007- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
1008 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
1009 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
1010 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
1011 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00001012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001013- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
1014 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
1015 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00001016
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001017- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
1018 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00001019
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001020- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
1021 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
1022 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00001023
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001024- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
1025 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00001026
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00001027- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
1028
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00001029- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
1030 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
1031
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00001032- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001033 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
1034 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
1035 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00001036
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00001037- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
1038 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
1039
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001040- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
1041 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00001042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001043- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
1044 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
1045 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00001046
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00001047- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001048 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
1049 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00001050
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00001051- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
1052 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001053 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
1054 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00001055
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001056- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
1057 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00001058
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001059- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
1060 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00001061
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00001062- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
1063 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
1064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001065- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
1066 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
1067 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00001068
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001069- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
1070 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00001071
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001072- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
1073 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00001074
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001075- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
1076 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
1077 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00001078
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00001079- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
1080 frame's thread state.
1081
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001082- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
1083 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00001084
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001085- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
1086 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00001087
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001088- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
1089 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00001090
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001091- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
1092 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00001093
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001094- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
1095 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00001096
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00001097- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
1098
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00001099- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
1100
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00001101- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
1102
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001103- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
1104 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00001105
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001106- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00001107
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00001108- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
1109 again, no longer the posix error code.
1110
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00001111- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
1112 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
1113
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001114- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
1115 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00001116
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00001117- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
1118 embedded in the string to convert.
1119
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00001120- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
1121 recognized and rejected.
1122
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00001123- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
1124
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00001125- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
1126 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
1127 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00001128
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00001129- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
1130 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
1131
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00001132- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001133 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
1134 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00001135
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001136- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
1137 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
1138 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00001139
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00001140- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
1141
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00001142- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
1143
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00001144- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
1145
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001146- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
1147 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
1148 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00001149
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00001150- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
1151 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
1152 'exceptions'.
1153
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00001154- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
1155 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
1156
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00001157- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
1158 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
1159
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00001160- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
1161
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00001162- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
1163
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00001164- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
1165 head is the original string if sep was not found.
1166
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00001167- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001168 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
1169 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
1170 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00001171
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001172- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00001173
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001174- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
1175 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00001176
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00001177- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
1178 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00001179
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001180- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00001181 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
1182 it actually exited.
1183
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001184
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00001185Library
1186-------
1187
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001188- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00001189
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00001190- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
1191
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00001192- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
1193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001194- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
1195 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00001196
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001197- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00001198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001199- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
1200 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
1201 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00001202
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001203- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
1204 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00001205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001206- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00001207 (ignore-case)
1208
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00001209- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
1210 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
1211 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
1212 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
1213
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001214- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
1215 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00001216
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001217- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
1218 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00001219
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00001220- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
1221 pickled.
1222
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00001223- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
1224 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
1225
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00001226- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
1227 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
1228 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
1229
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001230- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
1231 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00001232
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001233- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
1234 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
1235 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00001236
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001237- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
1238 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00001239
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001240- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
1241 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00001242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001243- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
1244 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
1245 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
1246 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00001247
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001248- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
1249 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00001250 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
1251
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00001252- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
1253
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001254- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
1255 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00001256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001257- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00001258
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001259- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
1260 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001261
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001262- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
1263 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001264
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001265- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
1266 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001267
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001268- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
1269 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001270
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001271- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
1272 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
1273 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00001274
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001275- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
1276 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00001277
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001278- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
1279 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00001280
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001281- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
1282 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00001283
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001284- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
1285 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00001286
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001287- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
1288 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00001289
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001290- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
1291 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00001292
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00001293- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
1294 with extended local headers.
1295
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001296- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
1297 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00001298
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001299- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00001300 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
1301 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
1302
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001303- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
1304 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00001305
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001306- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
1307 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00001308
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001309- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
1310 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00001311
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001312- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
1313 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00001314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001315- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
1316 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00001317
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00001318- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001319 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00001320 Textbox.gather().
1321
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00001322- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
1323 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00001324 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
1325 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00001326
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00001327- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
1328 that array types do not live longer than needed.
1329
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00001330- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
1331 and when creating a recursive instance.
1332
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001333- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
1334 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
1335 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00001336
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00001337- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
1338 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
1339 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
1340
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001341- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
1342 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00001343
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001344- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00001345 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
1346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001347- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00001348 good for long regular expression matches.
1349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001350- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
1351 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00001352
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00001353- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
1354 the current context.
1355
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00001356- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
1357 zipfile module.
1358
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00001359- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
1360
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001361- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
1362 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00001363
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00001364- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
1365
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00001366- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
1367
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001368- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
1369 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00001370
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00001371- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
1372
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001373- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
1374 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00001375
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001376- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
1377 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00001378
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00001379- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
1380
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00001381- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
1382 Tcl objects.
1383
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00001384- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
1385
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001386- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
1387 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
1388 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
1389 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00001390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001391- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
1392 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00001393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001394- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
1395 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00001396
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001397- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
1398 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00001399
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001400- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
1401 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00001402
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00001403- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
1404 method used universal newlines.
1405
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00001406- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
1407 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
1408
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00001409- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
1410 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
1411
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00001412- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
1413 files are updated.
1414
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001415- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
1416 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00001417
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00001418- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
1419 configured with --with-system-ffi.
1420
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00001421- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00001422 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00001423
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00001424- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
1425
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001426- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
1427 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
1428 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00001429
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001430- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
1431 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00001432
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00001433- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00001434
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00001435- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
1436
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001437- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
1438 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00001439
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00001440- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
1441 to be orderable to properly represent them.
1442
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00001443- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
1444
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00001445- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
1446
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001447- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
1448 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
1449 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00001450
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00001451- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
1452 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
1453
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001454- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
1455 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00001456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001457- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
1458 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00001459
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00001460- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
1461
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00001462- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
1463
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00001464- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
1465 syllables.
1466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001467- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
1468 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00001469
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00001470- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
1471
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00001472- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
1473 represent the result in a single character.
1474
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00001475- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
1476
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00001477- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
1478
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00001479- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
1480 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
1481 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
1482
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00001483- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
1484
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001485- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
1486 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00001487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001488- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
1489 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
1490 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00001491
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001492- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
1493 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
1494 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00001495
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00001496- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001497 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
1498 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00001499
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001500- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
1501 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00001502
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001503- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
1504 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00001505
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00001506- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
1507
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00001508- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
1509
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001510- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
1511 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
1512 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00001513
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00001514- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
1515
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00001516- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
1517
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00001518- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
1519 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
1520
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00001521- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
1522
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00001523- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
1524
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00001525- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
1526
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001527- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
1528 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00001529
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001530- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
1531 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00001532
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00001533- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
1534 the directories).
1535
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00001536- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
1537 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
1538 injecting HTML into the error page.
1539
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001540- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
1541 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00001542
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001543- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
1544 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00001545
1546- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
1547
1548- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
1549
1550- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
1551 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
1552 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
1553
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00001554- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
1555 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
1556 ".cpp" too.
1557
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00001558- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001559 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
1560 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
1561 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00001562
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001563- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
1564 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00001565
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001566- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
1567 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00001568
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00001569- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
1570 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
1571 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
1572 closes patch #723312.
1573
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00001574- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
1575 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00001576 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00001577
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00001578- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
1579
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00001580- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
1581 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
1582
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00001583- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
1584
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001585- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
1586 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00001587 directories.
1588
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00001589- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
1590 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
1591 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
1592 trying Mozilla variants.
1593
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00001594- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
1595
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00001596- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
1597 initialization failed.
1598
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00001599- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001600 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
1601 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00001602
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001603- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
1604 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
1605 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00001606
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001607- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
1608 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00001609 correctly now.
1610
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00001611- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
1612
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001613- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
1614 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00001615
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00001616- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
1617
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001618- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
1619 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
1620 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00001621
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001622- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
1623 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
1624 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
1625 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00001626
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001627- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
1628 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
1629 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00001630
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00001631- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
1632 whitespace while wrapping.
1633
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00001634- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001635 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
1636 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00001637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001638- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
1639 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
1640 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00001641
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00001642- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
1643 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
1644
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001645- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
1646 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00001647
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00001648- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
1649 concatenation in robotparser.
1650
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00001651- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001652 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
1653 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00001654
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00001655- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
1656 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
1657
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00001658- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
1659
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001660- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
1661 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
1662 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00001663
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001664- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
1665 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
1666 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00001667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001668- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
1669 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00001670 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00001671
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00001672- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
1673 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
1674
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00001675- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
1676 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
1677
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00001678- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
1679 returned string up to the first NUL character.
1680
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00001681- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
1682
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00001683- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
1684
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001685- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
1686 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
1687 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00001688
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00001689- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
1690
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001691- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
1692 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
1693 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
1694 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
1695 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
1696 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00001697
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001698- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
1699 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00001700
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00001701- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
1702 comprehensive test suite for the module.
1703
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00001704- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
1705 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
1706
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001707- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
1708 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
1709 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00001710
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00001711- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00001712 in HTMLParser.
1713
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00001714- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
1715 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
1716
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00001717- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
1718
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00001719- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
1720
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00001721- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
1722
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00001723- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00001724
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00001725- Added itertools.izip_longest().
1726
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001727- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
1728 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00001729
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00001730- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
1731
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00001732- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
1733 doesn't exist.
1734
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00001735- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
1736
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00001737- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
1738
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001739- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00001740
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001741- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
1742 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00001743
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001744- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
1745 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00001746
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001747- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
1748 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00001749
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00001750- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00001751 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00001752
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00001753- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
1754 iso8859_16.
1755
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001756- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
1757 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
1758 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
1759 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00001760
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00001761- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
1762
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00001763- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
1764 directories.
1765
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00001766- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
1767
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001768- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
1769 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00001770
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00001771- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00001772 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00001773
1774- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00001775 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00001776
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00001777- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00001778
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001779- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
1780 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00001781
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00001782- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
1783
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00001784- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
1785 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
1786 parameterless foreign function calls work.
1787
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00001788- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
1789
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00001790- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
1791 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
1792 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
1793
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00001794- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
1795 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
1796
1797- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
1798 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
1799
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001800- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
1801 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
1802 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00001803
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001804- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
1805 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00001806
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00001807- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
1808
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001809- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
1810 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00001811
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001812- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
1813 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00001814
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001815- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
1816 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00001817
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00001818- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
1819 separated lists read from logging config files.
1820
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001821- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
1822 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
1823 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00001824
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001825- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
1826 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00001827
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00001828- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
1829
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001830- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
1831 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00001832
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00001833- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
1834
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00001835- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
1836
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001837- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
1838 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00001839
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00001840- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
1841 regular files.
1842
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00001843- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
1844
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001845- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
1846 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00001847
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001848- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
1849 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00001850
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00001851- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
1852 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
1853
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00001854- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
1855 file name mangling.
1856
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001857- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
1858 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00001859
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00001860- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
1861
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00001862- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00001863 HTTPConnection.request().
1864
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00001865- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
1866 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
1867 objects.
1868
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001869- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
1870 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
1871 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00001872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001873- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
1874 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
1875 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00001876
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00001877- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00001878
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00001879- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00001880
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00001881- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
1882
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00001883- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00001884 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00001885
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00001886- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
1887
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00001888- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
1889 GNU modes.
1890
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00001891- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
1892 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
1893 opcode.
1894
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00001895- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
1896 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
1897 statement (bug #1586513).
1898
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00001899- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
1900 correctly.
1901
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00001902- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
1903
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001904- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
1905 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00001906
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00001907- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
1908 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
1909 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
1910
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001911- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
1912 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
1913 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00001914
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001915- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
1916 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00001917
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00001918- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
1919
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00001920- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
1921
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001922- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
1923 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00001924
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001925- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
1926 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00001927
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00001928- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
1929 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
1930
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00001931- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
1932 with a slash.
1933
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00001934- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
1935 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
1936
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001937- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data data and
1938 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00001939
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00001940- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
1941 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
1942 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
1943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001944- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
1945 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00001946
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001947- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
1948 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00001949
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001950- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
1951 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00001952
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00001953- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
1954
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00001955- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00001956 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00001957
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001958- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
1959 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00001960
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001961- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
1962 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00001963
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00001964- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
1965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001966- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
1967 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00001968
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001969- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
1970 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
1971 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00001972
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001973- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
1974 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
1975 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00001976
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001977- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
1978 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
1979 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
1980 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00001981
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001982- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00001983 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
1984 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001985 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
1986 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
1987 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00001988
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001989- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
1990 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00001991
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001992Extension Modules
1993-----------------
1994
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00001995- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00001996
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00001997- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
1998
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00001999- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
2000
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00002001- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00002002
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002003- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
2004 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00002005
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002006- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
2007 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00002008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002009- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
2010 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00002011
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00002012- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
2013
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00002014- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
2015
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002016- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
2017 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00002018
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00002019- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
2020
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002021- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
2022 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00002023
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00002024- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
2025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002026- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
2027 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00002028
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002029- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00002030 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
2031 parameter.
2032
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002033- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
2034 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
2035 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
2036 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00002037
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002038- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
2039 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00002040
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002041- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
2042 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00002043
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002044- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
2045 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
2046 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00002047
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002048- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
2049 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00002050
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00002051- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
2052
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00002053- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
2054
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002055- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
2056 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
2057 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00002058
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002059- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
2060 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00002061
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00002062- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
2063
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00002064- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
2065
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002066- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
2067 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
2068 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
2069 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00002070
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00002071- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
2072 get_completion_type to readline.
2073
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00002074- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
2075 structure.
2076
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00002077- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
2078
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00002079- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
2080
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00002081- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
2082 intended for RECNO databases.
2083
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00002084- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002085 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
2086 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
2087 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
2088 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
2089 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
2090 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00002091
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00002092- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
2093
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00002094- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
2095
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002096- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
2097 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
2098 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
2099 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
2100 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00002101
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00002102- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
2103 error in spite of a succesful compression.
2104
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00002105- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
2106 of Py_ssize_t.
2107
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00002108- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
2109 fractional times. With unittest.
2110
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002111- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
2112 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
2113 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00002114
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00002115- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
2116
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00002117- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
2118
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00002119- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
2120
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00002121- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
2122
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002123- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
2124 builtin types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00002125
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002126- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
2127 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00002128
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002129- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
2130 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00002131
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00002132- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
2133 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
2134
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002135- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
2136 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
2137 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00002138
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00002139- Speed up function calls into the math module.
2140
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00002141- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
2142 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
2143 does.
2144
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00002145- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
2146
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00002147- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
2148
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00002149- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
2150
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00002151- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
2152
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00002153- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
2154 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
2155
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00002156- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
2157 datetime's strftime function.
2158
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00002159- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
2160
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00002161- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
2162
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002163- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
2164 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00002165
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00002166- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
2167
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00002168- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002169 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
2170 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00002171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002172- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
2173 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00002174
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00002175- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002176 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
2177 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00002178 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
2179 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00002180 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00002181 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002182
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00002183- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
2184 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
2185 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
2186 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
2187
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00002188- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
2189 were transposed.
2190
Matthias Klose691632f2007-09-03 23:33:04 +00002191- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x
2192 and 4.6.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00002193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002194- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
2195 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
2196 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00002197
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00002198- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
2199
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00002200- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
2201
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00002202- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
2203
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00002204- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00002205
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00002206- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
2207 databases without a DBEnv.
2208
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00002209- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
2210
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002211Tests
2212-----
2213
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00002214- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00002215
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002216- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
2217 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00002218
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002219- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
2220 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
2221 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00002222
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00002223- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
2224 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00002225
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002226- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
2227 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00002228
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002229- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
2230 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
2231 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00002232
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00002233- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
2234
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002235- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
2236 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
2237 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00002238
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00002239- Added some tests for modulefinder.
2240
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00002241- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
2242
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00002243- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
2244 number properly.
2245
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002246- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
2247 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002248
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002249Tools
2250-----
2251
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002252- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
2253 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
2254 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
2255 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00002256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002257- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
2258 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
2259 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00002260
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00002261- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
2262 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
2263
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002264- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
2265 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002266
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002267- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
2268 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002269
2270- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002271 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
2272 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002273
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002274
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002275Documentation
2276-------------
2277
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00002278- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
2279 include new optional delay argument.
2280
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002281- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
2282 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
2283 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002284
2285- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
2286 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
2287
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00002288- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
2289 Python tutorial.
2290
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00002291- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
2292
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002293- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
2294 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00002295
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00002296- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
2297 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
2298
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00002299- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
2300 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
2301
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00002302- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
2303
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00002304- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
2305 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
2306
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00002307- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
2308 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
2309
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00002310- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
2311 docs.
2312
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00002313- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
2314
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00002315- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
2316 string pointed to by its parameter.
2317
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00002318- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
2319
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00002320- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002321 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
2322 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
2323 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00002324
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002325
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00002326Tools/Demos
2327-----------
2328
2329- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00002330
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00002331- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002332 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
2333 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00002334
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00002335- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
2336 file not to get reported properly.
2337
2338
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002339Build
2340-----
2341
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002342- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
2343 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
2344 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00002345
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00002346- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
2347 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
2348
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00002349- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
2350
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002351- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002353- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
2354 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
2355 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
2356 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002357
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002358- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
2359 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002360
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00002361- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
2362
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00002363- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
2364 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
2365 without this option!
2366
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00002367- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
2368
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00002369- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002370 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
2371 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
2372 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00002373
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002374- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
2375 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00002376
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00002377- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
2378
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00002379- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
2380
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002381- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
2382 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00002383
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002384- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
2385 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00002386
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00002387- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
2388 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
2389 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
2390
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00002391- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
2392 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
2393
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00002394- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
2395
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00002396- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
2397
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002398- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
2399 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00002400
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00002401- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00002402 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
2403
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002404- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
2405 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00002406
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00002407- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
2408
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002409- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00002410
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00002411- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
2412
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00002413- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
2414
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00002415- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002416
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002417- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
2418 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
2419 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00002420
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002421
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002422C API
2423-----
2424
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002425- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
2426 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
2427 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
2428 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00002429
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002430- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
2431 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
2432 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00002433
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002434- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00002435
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002436- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
2437 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
2438 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002439
2440- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
2441
2442- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
2443 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
2444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002445- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
2446 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
2447 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
2448 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002449
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002450- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
2451 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002452
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002453- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
2454 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
2455 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002457- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
2458 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002459
2460- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
2461
2462- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
2463
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002464- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
2465
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002466- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
2467
2468- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
2469 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
2470
2471- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
2472 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
2473
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002474- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
2475 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
2476 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002477
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002478- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
2479 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002480
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002481- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
2482 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00002483
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002484
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00002485Windows
2486-------
2487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002488- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
2489 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
2490 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
2491 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00002492
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002493- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
2494 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00002495
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00002496- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
2497
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00002498
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002499Mac
2500---
2501
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00002502- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
2503
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00002504- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
2505
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002506- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
2507 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
2508 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00002509
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002510----
2511
2512**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**