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2Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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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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Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00007What's New in Python 2.7.1?
8===========================
9
10*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
11
12Core and Builtins
13-----------------
14
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +000015- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
16
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +000017- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
18 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
19
20 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
21 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
22
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +000023- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
24 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +000025
26Library
27-------
28
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +000029- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
30
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +000031- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
32 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
33
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +000034- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
35 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
36 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
37
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +000038- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
39
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +000040- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
41 interactive browser.
42
43- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
44 regular expressions.
45
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +000046- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
47 data generated with the profile module.
48
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +000049- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
50 entries, consider the first one.
51
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +000052- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
53 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
54
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +000055- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
56 in the top-level debugged frame.
57
58- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
59 in doctests.
60
61- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
62 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
63
64- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
65 been reassigned.
66
67- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
68 a breakpoint command.
69
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +000070- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
71 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
72
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +000073- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
74 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
75
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +000076- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
77
78- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
79 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
80
81- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
82 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
83
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +000084- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
85
86- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
87
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +000088- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
89 across devices.
90
91- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
92
93- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
94
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +000095- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
96 string when Unicode was previously output.
97
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +000098- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
99 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
100
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +0000101- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
102 utf-16 incremental encoders.
103
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +0000104- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
105
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +0000106- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
107 parameters.
108
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +0000109- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
110 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
111 XML-RPC request.
112
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +0000113- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
114
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +0000115- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
116 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
117 options).
118
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +0000119- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
120
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +0000121- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
122 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
123 (Jan Hosang).
124
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +0000125- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
126
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +0000127- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
128 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
129 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
130
131- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
132 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
133 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
134
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +0000135- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
136 strings in add_option calls.
137
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +0000138- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
139
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +0000140- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000141
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +0000142- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
143
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000144Extension Modules
145-----------------
146
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +0000147- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
148 to prevent crashes.
149
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +0000150- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
151 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
152 2**31 elements.
153
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +0000154- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
155
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +0000156- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
157 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
158
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +0000159- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
160 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
161
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +0000162- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
163
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +0000164- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
165
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +0000166- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
167
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +0000168- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
169 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
170 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
171 returns the same information as the id command.
172
173 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
174
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +0000175- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
176 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
177 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
178 char is unsigned.
179
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +0000180- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
181
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +0000182Build
183-----
184
185- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
186
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000187- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
188 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +0000189
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000190- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
191 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
192 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +0000193
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +0000194Tests
195-----
196
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +0000197- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
198 Michele Orrù.
199
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +0000200- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
201
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +0000202Documentation
203-------------
204
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +0000205- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
206 with os.kill.
207
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000208- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
209 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +0000210
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000211- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +0000212
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000213
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +0000214What's New in Python 2.7?
215=========================
216
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +0000217*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +0000218
219Core and Builtins
220-----------------
221
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +0000222- Prevent assignment to set literals.
223
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +0000224Library
225-------
226
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +0000227- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
228
229Extension Modules
230-----------------
231
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +0000232- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
233 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +0000234
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +0000235- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
236 on an OpenSSL structure.
237
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +0000238
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +0000239What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
240=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000241
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +0000242*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000243
244Core and Builtins
245-----------------
246
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +0000247- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
248
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +0000249- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
250 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
251 See tracker issue for details.
252
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +0000253- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
254 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
255 (higher than 0x10000).
256
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +0000257- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
258 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +0000259
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +0000260Build
261-----
262
263- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
264
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000265Library
266-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +0000267
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +0000268- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +0000269 raises an exception.
270
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +0000271- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
272 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
273 and after calling foreign functions.
274
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +0000275- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
276 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
277
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +0000278- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
279 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
280
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +0000281- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000282
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +0000283- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
284 now honored in unittest debug methods.
285
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +0000286Documentation
287-------------
288
289- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
290 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
291
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +0000292Misc
293----
294
295- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
296
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000297
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +0000298What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
299=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +0000300
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +0000301*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +0000302
303Core and Builtins
304-----------------
305
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +0000306- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
307 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
308 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
309 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
310 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
311 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
312 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
313
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +0000314- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +0000315 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
316 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
317 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
318 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +0000319
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +0000320- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
321 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
322 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
323 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
324 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
325 in sets or dicts.
326
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +0000327- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
328 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
329 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
330
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +0000331- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
332 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
333
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000334- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
335 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +0000336
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000337- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
338 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +0000339
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +0000340- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +0000341 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
342
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +0000343C-API
344-----
345
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000346- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
347 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
348 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +0000349 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
350
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +0000351Library
352-------
353
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +0000354- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
355 reported as a skip rather than an error.
356
357- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
358 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
359 reports.
360
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +0000361- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
362
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +0000363- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
364 accepted by the codecs module.
365
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +0000366- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
367
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +0000368- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
369 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
370
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +0000371- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
372 mistake.
373
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +0000374- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
375 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
376
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +0000377- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
378 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
379
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +0000380- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
381 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +0000382
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +0000383- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
384
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +0000385- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
386
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +0000387- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
388 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
389 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +0000390
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +0000391- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000392 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +0000393
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +0000394- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
395 of files without one.
396
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000397- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +0000398 comparing to a non-mapping.
399
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000400- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +0000401
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000402- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
403 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +0000404
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +0000405- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
406
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000407- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
408 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
409 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +0000410
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +0000411Extension Modules
412-----------------
413
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +0000414- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
415 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
416 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
417
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +0000418- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
419 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
420
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +0000421- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000422 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +0000423
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +0000424Tests
425-----
426
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +0000427- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
428 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
429
430- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +0000431 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
432
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +0000433- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
434
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000435- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
436 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
437 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +0000438
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +0000439Build
440-----
441
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +0000442- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
443 releases.
444
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +0000445- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +0000446 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +0000447
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +0000448Tools/Demos
449-----------
450
451- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
452
453
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +0000454What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
455================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000456
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +0000457*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000458
459Core and Builtins
460-----------------
461
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000462- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +0000463
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000464- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
465 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
466 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
467 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
468 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +0000469
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000470- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
471 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +0000472
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +0000473- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
474
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +0000475- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000476 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +0000477 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
478 Charles-François Natali.
479
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +0000480- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
481 passed to bytearray.
482
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000483- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +0000484
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000485- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +0000486
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000487- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
488 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
489 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +0000490
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000491Library
492-------
493
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000494- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
495 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +0000496
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000497- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
498 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +0000499
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000500- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +0000501
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000502- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
503 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
504 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
505 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +0000506
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000507- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
508 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +0000509
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +0000510- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
511
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000512- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
513 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +0000514
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000515- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
516 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +0000517
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000518- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
519 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
520 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
521 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
522 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +0000523
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +0000524- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000525 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
526 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +0000527
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +0000528- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
529
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +0000530- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
531 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
532
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000533- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
534 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +0000535
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000536- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
537 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +0000538
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000539- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +0000540 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
541 "Include".
542
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000543- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
544 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +0000545
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000546- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
547 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +0000548
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000549- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
550 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +0000551
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000552- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
553 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
554 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +0000555
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000556- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
557 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +0000558
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000559- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +0000560
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000561- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
562 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +0000563
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000564- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +0000565
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000566- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
567 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
568 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
569 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +0000570
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +0000571- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
572 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
573
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000574- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
575 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +0000576
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +0000577- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
578
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000579- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
580 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +0000581
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000582- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
583 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +0000584
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000585- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
586 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
587 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +0000588
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000589- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
590 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000591 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
592 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
593
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000594- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
595 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
596 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +0000597
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +0000598- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
599
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000600- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
601 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +0000602
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000603- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +0000604
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000605- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
606 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +0000607
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000608- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
609 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +0000610
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +0000611- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
612
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +0000613- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
614 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
615
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000616- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +0000617 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
618
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +0000619- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000620 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
621 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +0000622
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +0000623- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000624 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
625 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +0000626
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +0000627- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
628
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000629- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
630 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +0000631
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +0000632Extension Modules
633-----------------
634
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000635- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +0000636
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +0000637- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
638
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +0000639- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
640
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000641- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
642 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +0000643
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000644Tests
645-----
646
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000647- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
648 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
649 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +0000650
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000651- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
652 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +0000653
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +0000654- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
655 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
656
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000657- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
658 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +0000659
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000660- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
661 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000662
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +0000663Build
664-----
665
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000666- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +0000667 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
668 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
669 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
670
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +0000671- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
672
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000673- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
674 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +0000675
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000676- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +0000677
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +0000678Misc
679----
680
681- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
682
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000683
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000684What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
685================================
686
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +0000687*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000688
689Core and Builtins
690-----------------
691
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +0000692- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
693
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +0000694- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
695 changed.
696
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000697- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +0000698 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
699 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
700
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +0000701- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
702
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000703- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +0000704
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +0000705- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
706
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000707- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
708 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
709 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
710 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
711 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in
712 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +0000713
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +0000714- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
715 references.
716
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000717- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
718 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +0000719
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +0000720- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +0000721
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +0000722- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
723 arguments to a function correct.
724
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +0000725- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
726
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +0000727- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000728 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
729 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +0000730 module.
731
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +0000732- Code objects now support weak references.
733
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000734Library
735-------
736
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +0000737- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
738
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +0000739- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000740 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
741 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +0000742
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +0000743- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
744
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000745- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
746 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +0000747
748 >>> Decimal(1.1)
749 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
750
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +0000751- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
752
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000753- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
754 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +0000755
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000756- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
757 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +0000758
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000759- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
760 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +0000761
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000762- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
763 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
764 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
765 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +0000766
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000767- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
768 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
769 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
770 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +0000771
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +0000772- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000773 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
774 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
775 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +0000776
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000777- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
778 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +0000779
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +0000780- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
781 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000782 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +0000783
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000784- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
785 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
786 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
787 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +0000788
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +0000789- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
790
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +0000791- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
792
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +0000793- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
794 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
795
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +0000796- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
797
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +0000798- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000799 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
800 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +0000801
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +0000802- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
803 deprecated.
804
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000805- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
806 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +0000807
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000808- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
809 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +0000810
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000811- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
812 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
813 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +0000814
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000815- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
816 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +0000817
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +0000818- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
819 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
820 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +0000821
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +0000822- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
823
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +0000824- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
825
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000826- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
827 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
828 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +0000829
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +0000830- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
831 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
832
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000833- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +0000834
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000835- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
836 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +0000837
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000838- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
839 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000840 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +0000841
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +0000842- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000843 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
844 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
845 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +0000846
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000847- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +0000848 cElementTree module is updated too.
849
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +0000850- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
851
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000852- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +0000853 classes.
854
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000855- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
856 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
857 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
858 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +0000859
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +0000860- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
861 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
862
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +0000863- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
864
865- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
866 during test runs.
867
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +0000868- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +0000869 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
870
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +0000871Extension Modules
872-----------------
873
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +0000874- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
875
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +0000876- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
877
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +0000878- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000879 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
880 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +0000881
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +0000882- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
883
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +0000884- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
885
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +0000886- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
887 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
888 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
889 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
890
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000891- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
892 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
893 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000894 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
895 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
896 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
897 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +0000898
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000899- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
900 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +0000901
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +0000902Tools/Demos
903-----------
904
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000905- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
906 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
907 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000908
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +0000909- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
910
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +0000911Build
912-----
913
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000914- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
915 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +0000916
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000917- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
918 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
919 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +0000920
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +0000921- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
922
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +0000923- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
924
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +0000925- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
926 assembly file.
927
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +0000928C-API
929-----
930
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +0000931- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000932 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
933 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +0000934
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000935- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
936 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
937 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
938 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +0000939
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +0000940Tests
941-----
942
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000943- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
944 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +0000945
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +0000946- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
947
948- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
949
950- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
951
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +0000952- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
953
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +0000954- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
955
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +0000956- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
957 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
958
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +0000959- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
960 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +0000961
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000962- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
963 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +0000964
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +0000965
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000966What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
967=================================
968
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +0000969*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000970
971Core and Builtins
972-----------------
973
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000974- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
975 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +0000976
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000977- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
978 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +0000979
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +0000980- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000981 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +0000982
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +0000983- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000984 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
985 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +0000986
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000987- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
988 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +0000989
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000990- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +0000991 Parser/myreadline.c.
992
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +0000993- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000994 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +0000995
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000996- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
997 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +0000998
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000999Library
1000-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00001001
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00001002- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
1003 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001004
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00001005- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
1006
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001007- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00001008 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00001009
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001010- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00001011 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
1012
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001013- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
1014 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00001015
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00001016- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001017 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00001018
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00001019- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00001020
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001021- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
1022 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00001023
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001024- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00001025
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001026- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
1027 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00001028
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001029- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
1030 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00001031
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00001032- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
1033
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001034- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
1035 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
1036 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
1037 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00001038
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001039- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
1040 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001041
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00001042- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
1043 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
1044 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001045
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00001046- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00001047 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00001048
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001049- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00001050
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001051- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00001052
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001053- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00001054
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001055- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
1056 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00001057
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00001058- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001059 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00001060
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001061- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00001062
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00001063- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
1064
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00001065Extension Modules
1066-----------------
1067
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001068- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00001069 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
1070
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00001071- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
1072
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001073- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00001074 handling.
1075
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00001076- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
1077 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001078
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001079- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00001080 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
1081 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
1082
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001083- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
1084 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00001085
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001086Tests
1087-----
1088
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001089- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
1090 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
1091 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00001092
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00001093- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
1094 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
1095
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001096- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
1097 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00001098
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001099- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00001100 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00001101
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001102- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00001103 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
1104
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001105- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
1106 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
1107 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
1108 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001109
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00001110Build
1111-----
1112
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00001113- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00001114
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001115
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001116What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
1117=================================
1118
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00001119*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001120
1121Core and Builtins
1122-----------------
1123
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00001124- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
1125 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001126 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
1127 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00001128
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00001129- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001130 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00001131
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001132- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
1133 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00001134
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001135- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00001136
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001137- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
1138 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00001139
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001140- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
1141 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
1142 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
1143 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00001144
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001145- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
1146 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
1147 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
1148 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00001149
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00001150- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
1151 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
1152 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
1153
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001154- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
1155 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00001156
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001157 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
1158 strings,
1159 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
1160 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
1161 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
1162 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
1163
1164- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
1165 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00001166
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00001167- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
1168
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00001169- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
1170
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00001171- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
1172
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001173Library
1174-------
1175
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00001176- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
1177 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
1178
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00001179- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
1180 interpreter shutdown.
1181
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001182- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
1183 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
1184 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
1185 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00001186
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001187- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00001188
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001189- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00001190
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001191- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00001192
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00001193- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001194 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00001195 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
1196 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
1197
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00001198- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
1199
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00001200- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001201 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
1202 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00001203 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
1204
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001205- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
1206 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
1207 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
1208 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
1209 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
1210 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00001211
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00001212- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
1213
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001214- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
1215 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00001216
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001217- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
1218 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00001219
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001220- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
1221 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
1222 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
1223 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00001224
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001225- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00001226 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
1227 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
1228
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001229- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00001230 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
1231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001232- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
1233 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00001234
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001235- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
1236 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00001237
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001238- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
1239 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00001240
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001241- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
1242 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00001243
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00001244- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001245 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
1246 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00001247
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00001248Extension Modules
1249-----------------
1250
1251- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
1252 (CVE_2009_3560).
1253
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00001254Build
1255-----
1256
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001257- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
1258 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
1259 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00001260
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00001261- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
1262
1263- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
1264 MacOSX.
1265
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00001266- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
1267 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
1268
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00001269Tools/Demos
1270-----------
1271
1272- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001273 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00001274 sandbox.
1275
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00001276Tests
1277-----
1278
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001279- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00001280 instead of a hard coded port.
1281
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00001282Documentation
1283-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00001284
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001285- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
1286 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00001287
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001288- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00001289 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
1290
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001291
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001292What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
1293=================================
1294
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00001295*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001296
1297Core and Builtins
1298-----------------
1299
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001300- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
1301 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00001302
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00001303- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
1304 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
1305
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00001306- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001307 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
1308 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
1309 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
1310 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
1311 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00001312
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00001313- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
1314 AttributeError.
1315
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001316- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
1317 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00001318
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001319- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00001320
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00001321- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
1322 used to drop the time part of the result.
1323
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001324- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
1325 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
1326 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
1327 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00001328
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001329- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
1330 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
1331 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00001332
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001333- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00001334 executables on OSX.
1335
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001336 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
1337 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
1338 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00001339
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001340- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
1341 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00001342
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00001343- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
1344
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001345- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
1346 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00001347
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00001348
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001349Library
1350-------
1351
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001352- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
1353 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
1354 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00001355
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001356- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
1357 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
1358 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00001359
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00001360- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001361 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
1362 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00001363 Xicluna.
1364
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001365- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
1366 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00001367
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001368- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
1369 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00001370
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001371- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
1372 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
1373 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00001374
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001375- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00001376 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
1377
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001378- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
1379 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00001380
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001381- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00001382 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
1383
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001384- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
1385 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00001386
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001387- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
1388 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00001389
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001390- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
1391 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
1392 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00001393
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001394- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
1395 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00001396
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00001397- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
1398 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
1399 the same as passing no argument.
1400
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001401- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
1402 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00001403
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001404- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00001405
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001406- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00001407
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001408- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
1409 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00001410
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001411- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
1412 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001413
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001414- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
1415 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00001416
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00001417C-API
1418-----
1419
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001420- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
1421 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00001422
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001423- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
1424 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
1425 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
1426 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
1427 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
1428 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
1429 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00001430
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001431- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00001432
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00001433Build
1434-----
1435
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00001436- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
1437
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00001438- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001439 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00001440
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001441- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
1442 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
1443 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00001444
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00001445- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
1446 found.
1447
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00001448- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00001449
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001450- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
1451 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00001452
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00001453Tests
1454-----
1455
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001456- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00001457 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
1458
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001459- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00001460
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00001461- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
1462 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
1463
1464
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001465What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
1466================================
1467
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00001468*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001469
1470Core and Builtins
1471-----------------
1472
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001473- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
1474 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00001475
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001476- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
1477 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
1478 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00001479
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001480- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
1481 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00001482
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001483- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
1484 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
1485 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00001486
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001487- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00001488
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001489- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00001490
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001491- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
1492 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00001493
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001494- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
1495 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
1496 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
1497 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
1498 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
1499 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00001500
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001501- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
1502 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
1503 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
1504 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
1505 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
1506 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
1507 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00001508
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001509 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
1510 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
1511 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
1512 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
1513 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
1514 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
1515 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
1516 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
1517 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
1518 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00001519
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001520- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
1521 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
1522 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
1523 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
1524 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
1525 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
1526 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
1527 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00001528
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00001529- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
1530
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001531- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
1532 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00001533
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001534- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
1535 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00001536
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001537- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
1538 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00001539
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00001540- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
1541
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001542- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
1543 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
1544 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00001545
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001546- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
1547 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00001548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001549- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
1550 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001551
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001552- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
1553 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00001554
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001555- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
1556 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
1557 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00001558
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001559- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
1560 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00001561
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00001562- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
1563 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
1564 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
1565 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
1566
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00001567- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
1568 assignment.
1569
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001570- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
1571 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00001572
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001573- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
1574 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00001575
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001576- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
1577 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00001578
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00001579- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00001580 take keyword arguments.
1581
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001582- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
1583 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00001584
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001585- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
1586 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00001587
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00001588- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
1589
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00001590- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
1591 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
1592
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00001593- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
1594
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001595- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00001596
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001597- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00001598 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
1599
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001600- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
1601 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00001602
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001603- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00001604
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001605- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00001606
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001607- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00001608 occurred in the argument chain.
1609
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00001610- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
1611
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001612- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
1613 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00001614
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001615- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00001616 separator and end should be unicode also.
1617
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00001618- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
1619 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00001620
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001621- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
1622 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
1623 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00001624
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00001625- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
1626
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00001627- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
1628 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
1629
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00001630- Removed the ipaddr module.
1631
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00001632- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
1633 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
1634
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001635- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00001636
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00001637- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
1638 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
1639
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00001640- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
1641
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001642- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
1643 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00001644
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00001645- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001646 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00001647
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001648- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
1649 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00001650
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00001651- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001652 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00001653
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00001654- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
1655 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
1656
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001657- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
1658 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
1659 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00001660
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00001661- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
1662
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001663- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
1664 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00001665
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001666- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00001667
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00001668- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00001669
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001670 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
1671 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
1672 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00001673
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001674- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
1675 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
1676 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
1677 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
1678 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
1679 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
1680 complex.__format__ in the same way.
1681
1682- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
1683 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
1684 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00001685
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00001686- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001687 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00001688
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001689- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
1690 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00001691
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001692- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
1693 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00001694
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001695- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
1696 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00001697
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001698- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
1699 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00001700
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00001701- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
1702 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
1703
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00001704- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
1705
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001706- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
1707 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00001708
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001709- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
1710 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001711
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001712- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
1713 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001714
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001715- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
1716 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001717
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001718- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
1719 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00001720
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001721- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00001722 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00001723
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001724- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
1725 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00001726
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00001727- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
1728
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001729- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00001730
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001731- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
1732 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00001733
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001734- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00001735
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00001736- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
1737 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
1738
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00001739- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
1740
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001741- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
1742 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00001743
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00001744- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001745 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
1746 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
1747 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00001748
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001749- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
1750 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
1751 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00001752
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001753- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
1754 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
1755 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
1756 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
1757 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00001758
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00001759- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
1760 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
1761
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001762- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
1763 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
1764 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00001765
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001766- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
1767 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00001768
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001769- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00001770 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
1771
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001772- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
1773 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00001774
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001775- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
1776 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00001777
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001778- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
1779 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00001780
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00001781- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
1782 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
1783
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001784- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
1785 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00001786
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00001787- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
1788
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001789- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00001790 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
1791 zip(), and bytearray().
1792
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00001793- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
1794 functions.
1795
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00001796- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
1797 OSError.
1798
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00001799- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
1800
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001801- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
1802 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
1803 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00001804
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00001805- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
1806 __next__ method.
1807
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00001808- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
1809
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00001810- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
1811
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00001812- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
1813 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
1814 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00001815 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00001816 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
1817
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00001818- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
1819
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001820- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
1821 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
1822 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
1823 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
1824 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00001825
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001826- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00001827
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00001828- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
1829 file with `str' filename on Windows.
1830
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00001831- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
1832 did not get collected.
1833
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001834- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
1835 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00001836
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00001837- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
1838 directory on POSIX systems.
1839
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00001840- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
1841 systems.
1842
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00001843- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001844 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00001845
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00001846- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
1847 fail.
1848
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001849- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
1850 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
1851 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00001852
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00001853- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
1854
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001855- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
1856 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00001857
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001858- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
1859 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00001860
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001861- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00001862
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001863- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
1864 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
1865 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
1866 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00001867
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00001868- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
1869 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
1870 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
1871
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001872- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
1873 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00001874
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00001875- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
1876 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
1877
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001878- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
1879 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
1880 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
1881 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00001882
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00001883- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
1884 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
1885
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001886- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00001887
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00001888- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
1889
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00001890- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
1891
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00001892- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
1893 exec statement.
1894
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001895- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
1896 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00001897
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00001898- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
1899 __future__ import didn't work.
1900
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00001901- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00001902 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00001903
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001904- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
1905 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
1906 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
1907 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00001908
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001909- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
1910 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
1911 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
1912 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00001913
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001914- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
1915 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00001916
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00001917- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
1918
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00001919- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
1920
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00001921- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
1922
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001923- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
1924 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00001925
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00001926- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
1927 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00001928
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00001929- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
1930 returned them on 64bit platforms.
1931
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00001932- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
1933 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
1934 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
1935 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
1936
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00001937- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
1938 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
1939
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001940- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
1941 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
1942 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
1943 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00001944
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001945Library
1946-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00001947
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00001948- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00001949
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00001950- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
1951
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001952- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
1953 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00001954
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001955- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00001956 TLS with authentication credentials.
1957
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001958- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
1959 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00001960
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00001961- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
1962 msvc9compiler.
1963
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001964- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
1965 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
1966 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00001967
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00001968- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
1969 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
1970 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
1971
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001972- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
1973 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00001974
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00001975- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
1976
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00001977- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001978 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00001979 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
1980
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001981- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
1982 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
1983 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00001984
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00001985- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
1986
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001987- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
1988 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00001989
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00001990- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
1991 raises ReadError on empty files.
1992
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001993- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00001994
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00001995- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
1996 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00001997
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001998- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
1999 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00002000
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002001- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
2002 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00002003
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002004- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00002005
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002006- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
2007 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00002008
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002009- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
2010 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00002011
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002012- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
2013 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
2014 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00002015 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
2016 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
2017
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002018- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
2019 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
2020 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00002021
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00002022- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002023 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00002024 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
2025
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002026- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
2027 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
2028 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00002029
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00002030- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
2031 which are part of a reference cycle.
2032
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002033- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
2034 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00002035
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002036- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00002037 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
2038 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
2039
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002040- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
2041 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
2042 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
2043 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00002044
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002045- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
2046 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
2047 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
2048 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00002049
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00002050- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
2051 header as required by RFC 1952.
2052
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00002053- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
2054 Distutils.
2055
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00002056- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
2057 an uppercase.
2058
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002059- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
2060 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00002061
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00002062- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
2063 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
2064
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00002065- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00002066 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
2067
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00002068- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
2069 protocol 2.
2070
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00002071- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
2072
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00002073- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
2074 larger than emax.
2075
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002076- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
2077 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00002078
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00002079- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
2080
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002081- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00002082
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00002083- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
2084
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002085- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00002086
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002087- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00002088
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00002089- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
2090 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002091
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002092- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
2093 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00002094
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002095- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
2096 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00002097
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002098- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00002099 Distutils.
2100
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002101- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00002102
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002103- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
2104 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00002105
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002106- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
2107 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00002108
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00002109- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
2110
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00002111- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
2112
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002113- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
2114 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00002115
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002116- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
2117 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00002118
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002119- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
2120 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00002121
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00002122- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
2123
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00002124- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
2125
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00002126- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002127 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
2128 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00002129
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002130- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00002131
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002132- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
2133 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
2134 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00002135
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002136- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
2137 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00002138
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002139- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00002140
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002141- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
2142 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
2143 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
2144 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00002145
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00002146- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
2147 as documented.
2148
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00002149- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
2150 names in the webbrowser module.
2151
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00002152- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
2153
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00002154- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
2155 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
2156
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00002157- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
2158
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00002159- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
2160
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00002161- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
2162
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00002163- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
2164
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00002165- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
2166
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00002167- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
2168 ScrolledText.
2169
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00002170- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
2171
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002172- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
2173 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00002174
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00002175- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
2176 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
2177 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
2178 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
2179
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00002180- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
2181 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
2182
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00002183- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002184 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
2185 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00002186
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002187- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
2188 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
2189 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00002190
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00002191- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
2192 opening an empty or very small file.
2193
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00002194- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
2195 containing incomplete data.
2196
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002197- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
2198 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00002199
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00002200- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
2201
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002202- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
2203 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
2204 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00002205
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00002206- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00002207
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002208- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
2209 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
2210 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
2211 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00002212
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002213- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00002214
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002215- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
2216
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00002217- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
2218 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
2219
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002220- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00002221
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002222- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00002223 attribute.
2224
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00002225- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
2226
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00002227- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
2228 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
2229
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00002230- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
2231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002232- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00002233 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002234 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00002235
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002236- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00002237 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
2238
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00002239- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
2240
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002241- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
2242 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00002243 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
2244
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002245- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00002246 argument.
2247
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002248- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
2249 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00002250
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002251- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00002252
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00002253- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
2254
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00002255- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
2256
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00002257- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
2258 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
2259
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002260- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
2261 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00002262
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00002263- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
2264 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
2265 ``io`` module.
2266
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00002267- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
2268
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00002269- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002270 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
2271
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00002272- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
2273
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002274- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
2275 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
2276 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00002277
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00002278- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
2279
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002280- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
2281 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00002282
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00002283- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
2284
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00002285- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
2286 whitespace.
2287
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002288- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
2289 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00002290
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00002291- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
2292 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
2293
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002294- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
2295 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00002296
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002297- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
2298 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00002299
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00002300- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
2301 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
2302 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
2303
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00002304- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
2305 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002306
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002307- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
2308 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
2309 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00002310
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00002311- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
2312 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
2313
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002314- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00002315 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
2316
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002317- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00002318
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002319- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
2320 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00002321
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002322- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00002323 subcommand.
2324
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00002325- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
2326 deepcopy()ing.
2327
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002328- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00002329
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00002330- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
2331
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002332- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00002333
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002334- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00002335 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
2336
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00002337- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
2338 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
2339
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00002340- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002341 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00002342
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002343- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
2344 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00002345
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00002346- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
2347 trying to print a traceback.
2348
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00002349- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
2350
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002351- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
2352 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00002353
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002354- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
2355 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
2356 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00002357 Cournapeau.
2358
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002359- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002360 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00002361
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002362- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
2363 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00002364
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00002365- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
2366
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00002367- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
2368 looking for files given by a relative filename.
2369
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002370- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00002371 extracting a file to the root directory.
2372
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002373- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00002374
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002375- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
2376 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
2377 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00002378
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00002379- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
2380 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
2381
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00002382- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
2383 Contributed by Google.
2384
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00002385- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
2386
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002387- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00002388
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00002389- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
2390
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002391- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
2392 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00002393 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
2394
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002395- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00002396 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
2397 initialized before.
2398
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00002399- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
2400 names which should not be exported.
2401
2402- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002403 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00002404
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00002405- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
2406
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002407- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
2408 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00002409
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00002410- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
2411
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00002412- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002413 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00002414
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002415- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
2416 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
2417 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00002418
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00002419- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
2420
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002421- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
2422
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002423- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
2424 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
2425 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
2426 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
2427 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00002428
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002429- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00002430
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002431- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
2432 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00002433
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002434- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00002435
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002436- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002437 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00002438
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002439- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
2440 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00002441
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002442- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
2443 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00002444
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002445- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
2446 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00002447
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002448- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
2449 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00002450
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002451- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00002452
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00002453- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00002454
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002455- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00002456
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002457- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00002458
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002459- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00002460 mailbox.MH.get_message().
2461
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002462- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
2463 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00002464
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002465- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
2466 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
2467 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00002468
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002469- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
2470 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002471
2472- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00002473 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002474
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002475- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
2476 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00002477 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
2478 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
2479
2480- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
2481 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002482
2483- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00002484 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002485
2486- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00002487 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00002488
2489- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
2490 called immediately before and after a test run.
2491
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002492- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00002493 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
2494 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
2495 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002496
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002497- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00002498
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00002499- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
2500 printing out values.
2501
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002502- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00002503
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00002504- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
2505 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
2506 threads.
2507
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00002508- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
2509
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00002510- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
2511
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002512- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00002513 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
2514 that it was failing to do localization.
2515
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002516- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00002517 Brandl.
2518
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002519- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
2520 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00002521
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00002522- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
2523 with the threading module.
2524
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002525- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00002526
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00002527- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
2528
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002529- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
2530 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00002531
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002532- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002533 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
2534 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00002535
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002536- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
2537 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00002538
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00002539- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
2540 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
2541 output compared to previous Python versions.
2542
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00002543- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
2544
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002545- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002546 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
2547 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002549- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
2550 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
2551 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
2552 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002553
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002554- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
2555 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
2556 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
2557 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00002558
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00002559- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
2560 even if an exception occurs.
2561
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00002562- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
2563 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
2564
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002565- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
2566 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00002567
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002568- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
2569 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00002570
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002571- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00002572 character.
2573
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002574- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
2575 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00002576
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002577- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00002578
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00002579- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002580 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
2581 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00002582
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002583- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
2584 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
2585 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00002586
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00002587- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
2588
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002589- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00002590 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
2591
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00002592- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
2593
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00002594- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
2595
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002596- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00002597
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00002598- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
2599
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00002600- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
2601
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00002602- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
2603 ready received.
2604
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00002605- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
2606 import guess_extension`` was used.
2607
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002608- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
2609 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00002610
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00002611- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
2612 overrun.
2613
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00002614- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
2615 bdist_rpm command.
2616
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002617- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00002618
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002619- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00002620
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00002621- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
2622 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
2623
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002624- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
2625 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00002626
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00002627- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
2628 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002629
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002630- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
2631 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00002632
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00002633- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
2634
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002635- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
2636 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00002637
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002638- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00002639 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
2640
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00002641- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
2642 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
2643
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002644- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00002645
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002646- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
2647 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00002648
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00002649- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
2650 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
2651
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00002652- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
2653 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
2654
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00002655- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002656 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00002657 ctime of the files involved.
2658
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00002659- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
2660 deadlock.
2661
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002662- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
2663 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
2664 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00002665
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00002666- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
2667
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002668- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
2669 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002670
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002671- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
2672 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00002673
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002674- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
2675 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
2676 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00002677
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002678- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
2679 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
2680 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
2681 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00002682
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002683- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00002684 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
2685
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002686- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
2687 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00002688
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00002689- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
2690 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
2691
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002692- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00002693 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
2694
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00002695- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
2696
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002697- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
2698 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00002699
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002700- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
2701 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00002702
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00002703- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
2704
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002705- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00002706 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
2707
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002708- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
2709 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00002710
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002711- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
2712 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00002713
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00002714- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
2715
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002716- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00002717
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002718- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
2719 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00002720
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002721- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
2722 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00002723
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002724- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00002725 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
2726
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002727- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
2728 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00002729
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002730- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
2731 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00002732
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002733- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002734 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
2735 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00002736
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002737- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
2738 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
2739 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
2740 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00002741
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002742- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
2743 parameter was set.
2744
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00002745- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
2746 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00002747 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00002748
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00002749- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002750 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
2751 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00002752
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00002753- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
2754 in sharedctypes.py.
2755
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00002756- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
2757 __getattr__.
2758
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002759- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
2760 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00002761
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002762- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00002763 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
2764
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002765- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00002766
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00002767- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
2768
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00002769- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002770 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
2771 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00002772 Jacques Frechet.
2773
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00002774- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
2775
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002776- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00002777 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
2778
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00002779- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002780 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
2781 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00002782
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002783- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
2784 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00002785
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002786- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
2787 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00002788
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00002789- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
2790 the function is not a generator.
2791
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002792- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
2793 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00002794
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002795- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
2796 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00002797
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002798- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
2799 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00002800
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002801- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
2802 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00002803
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00002804- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
2805
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00002806- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
2807
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002808- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
2809 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00002810
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002811- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
2812 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00002813
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00002814- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
2815 Gabriel Genellina.
2816
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00002817- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
2818
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00002819- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
2820
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002821- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00002822
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002823- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
2824 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
2825 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00002826
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002827- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
2828 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002829 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
2830
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002831- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
2832 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
2833 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002834
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002835- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
2836 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
2837 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
2838 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
2839 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002840
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002841- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
2842 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002843
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00002844- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
2845 when given an unicode string.
2846
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00002847- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
2848
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002849- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
2850 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
2851 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00002852
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002853- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
2854 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00002855
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002856- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00002857
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002858- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00002859 statements.
2860
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00002861- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
2862 not a malformed option.
2863
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002864- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
2865 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00002866
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00002867- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2868 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2869 Content-Disposition headers.
2870
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00002871- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002872 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
2873 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
2874 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
2875 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00002876
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00002877- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
2878 exception.
2879
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002880- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
2881 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00002882
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00002883- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
2884
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00002885- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
2886
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00002887- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
2888 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
2889
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00002890- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
2891 and then remove it.
2892
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00002893- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
2894
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00002895- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
2896 debugging.
2897
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00002898- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
2899 inspect.getargvalues.
2900
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00002901- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
2902
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00002903- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
2904 to claiming it is Mature.
2905
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00002906- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
2907 when protocol 0 is used.
2908
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00002909- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
2910 to be consistent with Apple tools.
2911
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00002912- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002913 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00002914
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00002915- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
2916
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002917- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00002918 module.
2919
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002920- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
2921 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00002922
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002923- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00002924
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002925- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00002926
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00002927- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002928 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00002929
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00002930- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002931 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
2932 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00002933
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00002934- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
2935 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
2936
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002937- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
2938 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00002939
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00002940- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
2941 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
2942 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
2943
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00002944- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
2945
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00002946Tools/Demos
2947-----------
2948
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002949- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00002950
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002951- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00002952
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00002953Build
2954-----
2955
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002956- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
2957 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
2958 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00002959
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002960- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
2961 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
2962 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002963
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002964- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00002965
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00002966- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
2967
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002968- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002969 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00002970
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002971- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002972 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00002973
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002974- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
2975 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00002976
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00002977- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
2978
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00002979- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
2980
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002981- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
2982 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00002983
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00002984- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00002985 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00002986
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00002987- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
2988
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00002989- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
2990
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00002991- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
2992
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00002993- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
2994
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002995- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00002996
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00002997- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
2998
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00002999- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
3000
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00003001- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
3002
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00003003- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
3004
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00003005- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
3006
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00003007- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
3008
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00003009- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
3010
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003011- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00003012
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00003013- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
3014
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00003015Documentation
3016-------------
3017
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003018- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
3019 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00003020
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003021- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
3022 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00003023
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00003024C-API
3025-----
3026
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00003027- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
3028
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003029- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
3030 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00003031
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003032- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
3033 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00003034
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003035- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
3036 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00003037
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003038- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
3039 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00003040
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00003041- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
3042 PyCode_Addr2Line().
3043
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00003044- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
3045 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
3046
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00003047- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
3048 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
3049
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00003050- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
3051
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003052- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
3053 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00003054
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00003055- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
3056
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003057- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
3058 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00003059
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00003060- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
3061 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003062
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003063- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00003064 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00003065
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00003066Extension Modules
3067-----------------
3068
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00003069- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
3070
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00003071- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
3072
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003073- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00003074
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00003075- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003076 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00003077
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003078- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
3079 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00003080
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003081- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
3082 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00003083
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00003084- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
3085 module.
3086
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00003087- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
3088
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00003089- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00003090 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00003091
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003092- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
3093 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
3094 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00003095
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003096- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
3097 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
3098 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00003099
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003100- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
3101 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
3102 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00003103
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003104 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
3105 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00003106
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003107 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
3108 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
3109 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
3110 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
3111 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
3112 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
3113 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00003114
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003115 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
3116 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
3117 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00003118
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00003119- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
3120
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003121- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
3122 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00003123
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00003124- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
3125 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00003126 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00003127
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00003128- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00003129
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00003130- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
3131
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00003132- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
3133
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00003134- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
3135
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00003136- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
3137
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00003138- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
3139 OpenBSD.
3140
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00003141- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
3142
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00003143- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
3144
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00003145- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
3146
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00003147Tests
3148-----
3149
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003150- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
3151 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
3152 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00003153
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003154- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
3155 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00003156
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003157- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
3158 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00003159
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00003160- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
3161
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00003162- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
3163 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
3164
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00003165- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003166 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
3167 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
3168 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00003169
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003170- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
3171 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00003172
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00003173- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
3174 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
3175
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00003176- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
3177 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
3178 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00003179
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00003180- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
3181
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00003182- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
3183 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
3184
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00003185- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
3186 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003187 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
3188 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00003189
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00003190- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
3191 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
3192
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003193- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
3194 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
3195 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
3196 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
3197 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00003198
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00003199- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
3200
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00003201- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
3202
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00003203- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
3204
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003205- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
3206 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
3207 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00003208
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00003209- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
3210
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00003211- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
3212 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
3213 incorrectly on __exit__.
3214
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00003215- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
3216
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00003217Misc
3218----
3219
3220- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
3221
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003222
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003223What's New in Python 2.6 final
3224==============================
3225
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00003226*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003227
3228Core and Builtins
3229-----------------
3230
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00003231- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
3232 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
3233
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00003234- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
3235 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
3236
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00003237- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
3238
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003239Library
3240-------
3241
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00003242- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
3243 true singleton object.
3244
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00003245- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
3246 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
3247 into a float.
3248
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00003249- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
3250
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00003251- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
3252 sizes.
3253
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00003254- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
3255
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00003256- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
3257 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
3258
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00003259Build
3260-----
3261
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00003262- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
3263 installer.
3264
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00003265- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
3266
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003267
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003268What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
3269=============================================
3270
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00003271*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003272
3273Core and Builtins
3274-----------------
3275
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00003276Extension Modules
3277-----------------
3278
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00003279- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
3280 segfault as a result.
3281
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00003282- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
3283 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003284
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00003285Tools/Demos
3286-----------
3287
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00003288- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00003289 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
3290 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
3291 are caught and silenced.
3292
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00003293Build
3294-----
3295
3296- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
3297 C runtime in the Windows installer.
3298
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003299
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003300What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
3301=============================================
3302
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00003303*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003304
3305Core and Builtins
3306-----------------
3307
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00003308- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
3309
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00003310- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
3311 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
3312 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
3313 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
3314 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
3315 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
3316 64bit values.
3317
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00003318- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
3319 error.
3320
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00003321- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
3322 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
3323 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
3324 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
3325
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00003326- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
3327 a unicode argument.
3328
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00003329- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
3330
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00003331- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00003332 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00003333 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
3334
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00003335- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00003336 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
3337 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
3338 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
3339 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
3340 type object.
3341
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00003342- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
3343
3344- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
3345
3346- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
3347
3348- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
3349
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00003350- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
3351 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
3352
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00003353- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
3354 ``__delslice__``.
3355
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00003356- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
3357 library targets in the Makefile.
3358
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00003359- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
3360 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
3361 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
3362
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00003363C-API
3364-----
3365
3366- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
3367
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003368Library
3369-------
3370
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00003371- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
3372 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
3373
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00003374- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
3375
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00003376- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
3377
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00003378- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
3379 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
3380 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
3381
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00003382- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
3383
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00003384- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00003385 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
3386
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00003387- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
3388
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00003389- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
3390
3391- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00003392
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00003393- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
3394 its symbolic link.
3395
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00003396- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
3397
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003398- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00003399 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
3400 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
3401
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00003402- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
3403 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
3404
3405- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00003406
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00003407- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
3408 path to the Python binary.
3409
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003410- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00003411 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
3412 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
3413 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
3414
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00003415- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
3416
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00003417- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
3418
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00003419- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
3420
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00003421- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
3422
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00003423- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
3424 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00003425
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00003426- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
3427 non-integer floating point number.
3428
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00003429- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00003430 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
3431
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00003432Extension Modules
3433-----------------
3434
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00003435- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
3436 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
3437
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00003438- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
3439 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
3440 without limit.
3441
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00003442- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
3443 exploitation of poor argument checking.
3444
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00003445- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
3446
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00003447- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
3448 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
3449
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00003450- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
3451 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
3452 threads/processes.
3453
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00003454Tests
3455-----
3456
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00003457- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
3458 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
3459 that expected warning messages are being reported.
3460
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00003461- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
3462
3463- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00003464
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00003465Build
3466-----
3467
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00003468- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
3469
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00003470- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
3471 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
3472
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00003473- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
3474
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00003475- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00003476 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00003477
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003478
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003479What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
3480================================
3481
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00003482*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003483
3484Core and Builtins
3485-----------------
3486
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00003487- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
3488 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
3489 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
3490 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
3491 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
3492 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
3493 default.
3494
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00003495- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
3496 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
3497
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00003498- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
3499 value again.
3500
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00003501- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
3502 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
3503 and introducing s*.
3504
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00003505- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
3506 object was stored in the freelist.
3507
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00003508- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
3509 ValueError consistently across platforms.
3510
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00003511- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
3512 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
3513 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
3514
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00003515- Apply security patches from Apple.
3516
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00003517- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
3518 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
3519
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00003520- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
3521 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
3522
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00003523- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
3524 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
3525 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
3526
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00003527- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
3528 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
3529 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
3530 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
3531 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
3532 failed have been fixed.
3533
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003534Library
3535-------
3536
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00003537- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
3538
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00003539- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
3540 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
3541
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00003542- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
3543 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
3544 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
3545
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00003546- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
3547 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
3548 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
3549 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
3550 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
3551 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
3552
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00003553- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
3554 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
3555
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00003556- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
3557
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00003558- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
3559
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00003560- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
3561
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00003562- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
3563 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
3564
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00003565- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00003566 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
3567
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003568- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00003569 in a redirect.
3570
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00003571- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00003572 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00003573
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00003574- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
3575 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
3576
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00003577- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
3578 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
3579 regular expression.
3580
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00003581- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
3582 thread-safe.
3583
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00003584- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
3585 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
3586 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
3587
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00003588- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
3589
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00003590- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
3591 menu entries were not deleted.
3592
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00003593- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
3594 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
3595
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00003596- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
3597 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
3598
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00003599- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
3600 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
3601 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
3602
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00003603- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
3604 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
3605 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
3606
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00003607- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
3608 the reload() built-in has been removed.
3609
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00003610- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00003611 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00003612 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
3613 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
3614 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
3615 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
3616 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00003617
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00003618- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
3619 raised an AttributeError.
3620
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00003621- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00003622 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
3623 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00003624
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00003625- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
3626 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
3627
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003628- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00003629
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003630- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00003631 on a closed shelf.
3632
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00003633- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
3634
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003635- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
3636
3637- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
3638 invalid arguments.
3639
3640- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
3641 with None arguments.
3642
3643- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
3644 configuration files.
3645
3646- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
3647
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00003648- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
3649 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
3650 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
3651
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00003652- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
3653 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
3654 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
3655
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00003656Build
3657-----
3658
3659- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
3660
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00003661Documentation
3662-------------
3663
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00003664- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
3665 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
3666
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00003667- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
3668 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
3669 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
3670 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
3671
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003672
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00003673What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
3674================================
3675
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003676*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
3677
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00003678Core and Builtins
3679-----------------
3680
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00003681- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
3682 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
3683 an integer using operator.index().
3684
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00003685- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
3686 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
3687
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00003688- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
3689 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
3690
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00003691- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
3692 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
3693 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
3694
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00003695- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
3696 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
3697 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
3698 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
3699 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
3700 level.
3701
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00003702- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
3703 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
3704 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
3705 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
3706 all imports from that module to fail.
3707
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00003708- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
3709 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
3710 new-style classes.
3711
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00003712- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
3713 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
3714 another file in sys.stdout.
3715
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00003716- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
3717 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
3718 another thread's dictionary.
3719
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00003720- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
3721 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
3722 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
3723 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
3724 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
3725 10, -1).
3726
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00003727- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
3728 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
3729 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00003730
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00003731- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
3732 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
3733 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00003734
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003735Library
3736-------
3737
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00003738- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
3739 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
3740 error when they failed.
3741
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00003742- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
3743
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00003744- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
3745
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00003746- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
3747
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00003748- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
3749
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00003750- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
3751 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
3752
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003753- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00003754
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00003755- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
3756 a valid dlerror() message.
3757
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00003758- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
3759 incomplete structure was created.
3760
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00003761- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
3762
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00003763- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
3764
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003765- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00003766
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00003767- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
3768 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003769 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00003770 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
3771 merged into trunk.
3772
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00003773- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
3774
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00003775- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
3776
3777- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
3778
3779- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
3780 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003781 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00003782
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003783- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003784 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00003785
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00003786- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
3787 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
3788
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003789- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
3790 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
3791
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00003792- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
3793 interrupted by a signal.
3794
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003795- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00003796 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
3797 Prevents a deadlock.
3798
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00003799- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
3800 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
3801 default https port (443).
3802
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00003803- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
3804 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
3805 if the new process uses the threading module.
3806
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00003807Tests
3808-----
3809
3810- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
3811 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
3812 have been added to test_warnings.
3813
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00003814Build
3815-----
3816
3817- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
3818
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003819
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00003820Documentation
3821-------------
3822
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00003823- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00003824 Python 3.0.
3825
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00003826- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
3827
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00003828- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
3829 Python 3.0.
3830
3831- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
3832 Python 3.0.
3833
3834
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003835What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
3836================================
3837
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00003838*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003839
3840Core and Builtins
3841-----------------
3842
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00003843- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
3844 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
3845 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
3846 bus error.
3847
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00003848- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
3849 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
3850
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00003851- Add future_builtins.ascii().
3852
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00003853- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00003854 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00003855
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00003856- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
3857
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00003858- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
3859
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00003860- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
3861
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00003862- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
3863
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003864- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
3865 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
3866 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
3867 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00003868
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00003869- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
3870
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003871- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
3872 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00003873
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003874- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
3875 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00003876
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003877- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
3878 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
3879 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00003880
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00003881- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
3882 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
3883 can't be triggered from Python code.
3884
3885
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003886Extension Modules
3887-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00003888- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003889
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00003890- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
3891
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00003892- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00003893
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00003894- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
3895 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
3896
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00003897- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
3898 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
3899
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00003900- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
3901 weakref.proxy.
3902
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003903- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
3904 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00003905
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00003906- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00003907
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00003908- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00003909 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
3910 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00003911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003912- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
3913 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
3914 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00003915
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00003916- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
3917 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
3918 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
3919
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003920- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00003921
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00003922- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00003923
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003924Library
3925-------
3926
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00003927- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
3928 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
3929
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00003930- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
3931
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00003932- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
3933 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
3934 sense).
3935
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00003936- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
3937
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00003938- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
3939 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
3940 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
3941 the patch.
3942
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003943- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
3944 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
3945 the patch).
3946
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00003947- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
3948 os.uname exists.
3949
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00003950- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
3951
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00003952- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
3953
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00003954- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
3955 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
3956 pointer-like object.
3957
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00003958- Added the ast module.
3959
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003960- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00003961
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00003962- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
3963 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
3964
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00003965- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
3966 to errno.
3967
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003968- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00003969
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003970- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00003971 msilib.Record objects.
3972
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00003973- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
3974 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
3975
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00003976- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
3977 in Python 3.0.
3978
3979- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
3980 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00003981
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00003982- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
3983 False boolean value now.
3984
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00003985- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
3986 transfers.
3987
3988- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
3989 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00003990
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00003991- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
3992 when the TarFile is closed.
3993
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00003994- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
3995 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
3996 an exception.
3997
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00003998- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
3999 otherwise be produced.
4000
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00004001- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
4002 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
4003
4004- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
4005 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
4006
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00004007- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
4008 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
4009 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
4010
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00004011- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
4012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004013- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00004014 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
4015 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
4016 'm' or 'c'.
4017
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00004018- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4019
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004020- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
4021 removal in Python 3.0.
4022
4023- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4024 3.0.
4025
4026- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4027 3.0.
4028
4029- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4030 3.0.
4031
4032- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00004033 Python 3.0.
4034
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00004035- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
4036 Python 3.0.
4037
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004038- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4039 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00004040
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004041- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4042 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00004043
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004044- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4045 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00004046
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004047- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4048 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00004049
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004050- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00004051 Python 3.0.
4052
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004053- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4054 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00004055
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004056- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4057 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00004058
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004059- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4060 3.0.
4061
4062- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
4063 removal in Python 3.0.
4064
4065- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4066 3.0.
4067
4068- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4069 3.0.
4070
4071- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
4072 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00004073
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004074- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
4075 removal in Python 3.0.
4076
4077- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00004078 Python 3.0.
4079
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004080- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4081 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00004082
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00004083- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
4084 Python 3.0.
4085
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00004086- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
4087 Python 3.0.
4088
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004089- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00004090
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00004091- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4092
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00004093- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4094
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00004095- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
4096
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00004097- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4098
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004099- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
4100 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
4101 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00004102
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004103- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
4104 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00004105
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00004106- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4107
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004108- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
4109 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00004110
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00004111- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4112
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00004113- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4114
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00004115- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4116
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00004117- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4118
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00004119- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4120
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004121- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
4122 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00004123
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00004124- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4125
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00004126- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4127
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00004128- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
4129 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
4130 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
4131 OverflowError.
4132
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00004133- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4134
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004135- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
4136 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00004137
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00004138- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4139
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00004140- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4141
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00004142- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4143
4144- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00004145
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004146- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4147
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00004148- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
4149
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00004150- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
4151
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00004152- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00004153
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004154- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
4155 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00004156
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00004157- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00004158 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
4159 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
4160 of Python.
4161
4162- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
4163 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
4164
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00004165- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
4166 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00004167
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004168Build
4169-----
4170
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00004171- The Windows installer now includes Tk 8.5, bzip2 1.0.5, and SQLite 3.5.9.
Martin v. Löwis76307312008-06-12 18:52:00 +00004172
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00004173- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
4174
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00004175- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
4176
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00004177- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
4178 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004179 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00004180
4181 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
4182
4183 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
4184
4185 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
4186
4187 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
4188
4189 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
4190
4191 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
4192
4193
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00004194C API
4195-----
4196
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00004197- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
4198
4199- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00004200
4201- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
4202 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
4203 PyString names.
4204
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00004205
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004206What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00004207=================================
4208
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00004209*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00004210
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00004211Core and builtins
4212-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00004213
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00004214- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
4215
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004216- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
4217 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00004218
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004219- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
4220 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00004221
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004222- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00004223
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00004224Extension Modules
4225-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004226
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004227- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
4228 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00004229
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00004230- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
4231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004232- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
4233 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00004234
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004235- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
4236 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00004237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004238- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
4239 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00004240
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004241- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
4242 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
4243 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
4244 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
4245 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
4246 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
4247 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
4248 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00004249
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004250Library
4251-------
4252
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00004253- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4254
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004255- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
4256 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00004257
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00004258- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
4259
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004260- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
4261 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00004262
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00004263- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
4264 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
4265 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
4266
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00004267- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004268 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00004269
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00004270- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00004271 reference to themselves.
4272
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00004273- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
4274 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
4275 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00004276
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00004277- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
4278 1900-01-01.
4279
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00004280- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
4281 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
4282
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00004283- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
4284 now implemented in C for better performance.
4285
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004286- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
4287 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
4288 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00004289
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004290- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00004291 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
4292 build documentation for more information.
4293
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00004294- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
4295 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
4296 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
4297 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
4298
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00004299- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
4300 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
4301 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
4302
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004303- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
4304 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
4305 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
4306 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00004307
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004308Tests
4309-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00004310
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004311- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
4312 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
4313 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
4314 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
4315 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
4316 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
4317 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
4318 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
4319 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
4320 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
4321 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
4322 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
4323 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
4324 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
4325 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
4326 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
4327 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
4328 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
4329 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
4330 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
4331
4332 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
4333 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
4334 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
4335 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
4336 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
4337 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
4338 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
4339 access to the underlying socket used.
4340
4341 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
4342 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
4343 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00004344
4345 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004346 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00004347 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
4348 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
4349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004350 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
4351 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004352
4353Build
4354-----
4355
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00004356- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
4357
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00004358- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
4359 gcc is used as compiler.
4360
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00004361- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004362 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00004363
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004364C API
4365-----
4366
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004367- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
4368 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
4369 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
4370 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00004371
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00004372- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00004373
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004374
4375What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
4376=================================
4377
4378*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
4379
4380Core and builtins
4381-----------------
4382
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004383- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
4384 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
4385 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00004386
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00004387- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
4388 cannot be executed.
4389
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00004390- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
4391 reference on the outer class name.
4392
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00004393- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004394 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00004395
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004396- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
4397 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00004398
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00004399- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004400
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00004401- Added backport of bytearray type.
4402
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00004403- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
4404
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00004405- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004406 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
4407 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
4408 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
4409 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
4410 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00004411
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00004412- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
4413
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004414- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
4415 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00004416
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00004417- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00004418
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00004419- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
4420
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004421- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
4422 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00004423
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004424- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
4425 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00004426
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004427- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00004428 exception instances.
4429
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00004430- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004431 doesn't derive from BaseException.
4432
4433- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
4434 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00004435
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00004436- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
4437 memory usage in some circumstances.
4438
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004439- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
4440 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
4441 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00004442
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00004443- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
4444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004445- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00004446 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
4447 longer passed.
4448
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00004449- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
4450
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004451- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
4452 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
4453 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00004454
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004455- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
4456 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00004457
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00004458- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
4459
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00004460Extension Modules
4461-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00004462
4463- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
4464
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004465Library
4466-------
4467
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004468- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
4469 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004470
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004471- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
4472 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
4473 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004474
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004475- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
4476 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004477
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004478- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
4479 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
4480 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00004481
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004482- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
4483 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00004484
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00004485- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
4486
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00004487- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
4488 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
4489 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
4490
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00004491- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
4492
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00004493- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
4494 advertised in the docs.
4495
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004496- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00004497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004498- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00004499
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004500- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
4501 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00004502
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00004503- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
4504 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
4505
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004506- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
4507 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00004508 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
4509 information as well.
4510
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004511- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
4512 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00004513
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004514- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
4515 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00004516
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004517- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
4518 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
4519 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00004520
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00004521- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
4522 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
4523 strftime.
4524
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00004525- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004526 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
4527 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00004528
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00004529- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
4530 correctly under win32
4531
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004532- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00004533
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00004534- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004535 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
4536 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
4537 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00004538
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00004539- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
4540 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
4541
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004542- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
4543 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00004544
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004545- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
4546 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
4547 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00004548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004549- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00004550 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
4551
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00004552- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
4553 from 't' to '?'.
4554
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004555- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
4556 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004557 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
4558 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
4559 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004560
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004561- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
4562 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00004563
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00004564Tests
4565-----
4566
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004567- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
4568 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00004569
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00004570- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
4571
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00004572- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
4573
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00004574- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
4575
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00004576- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
4577
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004578- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
4579 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00004580
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00004581- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
4582
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004583- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00004584
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004585- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
4586 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00004587
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00004588- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
4589
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00004590- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
4591
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00004592- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
4593 permission to create files in the root directory.
4594
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00004595Build
4596-----
4597
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00004598- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
4599
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004600- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
4601 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00004602
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00004603- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00004604
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004605C API
4606-----
4607
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004608- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004609 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
4610
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004611
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004612What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
4613=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004614
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00004615*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004616
4617Core and builtins
4618-----------------
4619
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00004620- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00004621 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00004622
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00004623- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
4624
4625- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00004626
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004627- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004628 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00004629
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00004630- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
4631 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
4632 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
4633 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
4634 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
4635 module is:
4636 from future_builtins import hex, oct
4637
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00004638- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
4639 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
4640 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
4641 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
4642 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
4643 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
4644
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00004645- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
4646 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
4647 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
4648 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
4649 PyObject_Format().
4650
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004651- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
4652 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
4653 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00004654
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004655- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004656 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
4657 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00004658
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004659- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
4660 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00004661
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004662- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
4663 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
4664 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00004665
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004666- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
4667 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
4668 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00004669
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00004670- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
4671 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
4672
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004673- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004674 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00004675
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004676- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
4677 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00004678 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
4679
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004680- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
4681 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
4682 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00004683
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004684- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
4685 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00004686
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004687- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
4688 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00004689
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004690- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
4691 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00004692
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004693- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
4694 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00004695
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004696- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
4697 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
4698 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00004699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004700- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
4701 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
4702 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
4703 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00004704
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00004705- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
4706 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
4707 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
4708
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004709- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00004710 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
4711 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
4712
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004713- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00004714 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
4715 support.
4716
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00004717- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
4718 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
4719
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00004720- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
4721
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004722- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00004723 added.
4724
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00004725- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
4726 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
4727
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004728- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
4729 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00004730
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004731- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
4732 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
4733 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00004734
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004735- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
4736 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00004737
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00004738- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
4739 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00004740
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00004741- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
4742
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004743- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
4744 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
4745 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00004746
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004747- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
4748 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
4749 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00004750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004751- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00004752
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004753- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
4754 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00004755
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00004756- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004757 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
4758 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00004759
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004760- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
4761 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
4762 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
4763 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00004764
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004765- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00004766
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004767- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
4768 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00004769
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004770- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
4771 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00004772
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00004773- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00004774 SystemError.
4775
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00004776- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
4777 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
4778 __package__ attribute.
4779
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004780- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
4781 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
4782 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00004783
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00004784- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
4785
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004786- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00004787 attribute of an empty cell object.
4788
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004789- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
4790 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00004791
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004792- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
4793 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
4794 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
4795 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00004796
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004797- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
4798 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
4799 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00004800
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00004801- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
4802
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00004803- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
4804
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00004805- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
4806
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004807- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004808 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
4809 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00004810
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004811- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
4812 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
4813 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
4814 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
4815 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
4816 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00004817
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004818- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
4819 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
4820 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
4821 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
4822 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00004823
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004824- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
4825 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
4826 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00004827
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004828- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
4829 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00004830
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00004831- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004832 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
4833 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
4834 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
4835 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
4836 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00004837
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004838- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
4839 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00004840
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00004841- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
4842 with %G.
4843
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004844- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
4845 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00004846
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004847- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00004848
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004849- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00004850
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00004851- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004852 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
4853 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00004854
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00004855- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
4856 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
4857
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00004858- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
4859 calls.
4860
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00004861- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004862 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
4863 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00004864
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00004865- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
4866
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004867- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004868 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00004869
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004870- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00004871 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
4872
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00004873- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
4874
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00004875- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
4876 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
4877 remaining characters.
4878
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00004879- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
4880 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
4881
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00004882- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
4883
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00004884- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
4885 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
4886 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
4887 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
4888 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00004889 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
4890 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00004891
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004892- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
4893 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
4894 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
4895 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
4896 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00004897
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004898- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
4899 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
4900 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00004901
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004902- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
4903 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00004904
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004905- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
4906 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
4907 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00004908
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004909- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
4910 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00004911
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00004912- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
4913
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00004914- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
4915 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
4916
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00004917- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004918 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
4919 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
4920 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00004921
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00004922- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
4923 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
4924
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004925- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
4926 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00004927
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004928- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
4929 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
4930 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00004931
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00004932- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004933 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
4934 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00004935
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00004936- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
4937 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004938 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
4939 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00004940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004941- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
4942 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00004943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004944- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
4945 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00004946
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00004947- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
4948 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
4949
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004950- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
4951 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
4952 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00004953
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004954- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
4955 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00004956
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004957- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
4958 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00004959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004960- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
4961 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
4962 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00004963
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00004964- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
4965 frame's thread state.
4966
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004967- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
4968 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00004969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004970- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
4971 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00004972
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004973- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
4974 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00004975
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004976- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
4977 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00004978
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004979- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
4980 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00004981
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00004982- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
4983
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00004984- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
4985
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00004986- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
4987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004988- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
4989 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00004990
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004991- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00004992
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00004993- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
4994 again, no longer the posix error code.
4995
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00004996- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
4997 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
4998
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004999- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
5000 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00005001
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00005002- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
5003 embedded in the string to convert.
5004
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00005005- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
5006 recognized and rejected.
5007
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00005008- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
5009
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00005010- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
5011 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
5012 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00005013
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00005014- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
5015 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
5016
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00005017- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005018 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
5019 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00005020
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005021- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
5022 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
5023 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00005024
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00005025- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
5026
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00005027- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
5028
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00005029- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
5030
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005031- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
5032 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
5033 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00005034
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00005035- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
5036 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
5037 'exceptions'.
5038
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00005039- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
5040 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
5041
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00005042- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
5043 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
5044
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00005045- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
5046
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00005047- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
5048
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00005049- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
5050 head is the original string if sep was not found.
5051
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00005052- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005053 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
5054 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
5055 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00005056
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005057- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00005058
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005059- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
5060 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005061
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00005062- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
5063 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00005064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005065- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00005066 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
5067 it actually exited.
5068
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005069
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005070Library
5071-------
5072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005073- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00005074
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00005075- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
5076
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00005077- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
5078
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005079- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
5080 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00005081
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005082- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00005083
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005084- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
5085 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
5086 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00005087
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005088- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
5089 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00005090
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005091- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00005092 (ignore-case)
5093
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00005094- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
5095 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
5096 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
5097 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
5098
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005099- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
5100 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00005101
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005102- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
5103 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00005104
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00005105- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
5106 pickled.
5107
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00005108- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
5109 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
5110
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00005111- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
5112 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
5113 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
5114
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005115- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
5116 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00005117
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005118- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
5119 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
5120 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00005121
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005122- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
5123 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00005124
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005125- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
5126 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00005127
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005128- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
5129 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
5130 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
5131 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00005132
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005133- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
5134 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00005135 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
5136
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00005137- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
5138
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005139- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
5140 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00005141
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005142- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00005143
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005144- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
5145 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005146
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005147- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
5148 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005149
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005150- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
5151 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005152
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005153- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
5154 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005155
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005156- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
5157 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
5158 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00005159
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005160- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
5161 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00005162
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005163- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
5164 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00005165
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005166- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
5167 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00005168
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005169- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
5170 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00005171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005172- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
5173 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00005174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005175- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
5176 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00005177
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00005178- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
5179 with extended local headers.
5180
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005181- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
5182 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00005183
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005184- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00005185 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
5186 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
5187
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005188- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
5189 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00005190
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005191- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
5192 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00005193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005194- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
5195 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00005196
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005197- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
5198 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00005199
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005200- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
5201 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00005202
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00005203- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005204 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00005205 Textbox.gather().
5206
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00005207- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
5208 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00005209 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
5210 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00005211
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00005212- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
5213 that array types do not live longer than needed.
5214
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00005215- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
5216 and when creating a recursive instance.
5217
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005218- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
5219 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
5220 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00005221
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00005222- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
5223 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
5224 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
5225
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005226- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
5227 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00005228
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005229- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00005230 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
5231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005232- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00005233 good for long regular expression matches.
5234
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005235- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
5236 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00005237
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00005238- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
5239 the current context.
5240
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00005241- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
5242 zipfile module.
5243
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00005244- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
5245
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005246- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
5247 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00005248
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00005249- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
5250
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00005251- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
5252
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005253- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
5254 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00005255
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00005256- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
5257
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005258- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
5259 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00005260
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005261- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
5262 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00005263
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00005264- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
5265
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00005266- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
5267 Tcl objects.
5268
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00005269- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
5270
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005271- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
5272 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
5273 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
5274 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00005275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005276- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
5277 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00005278
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005279- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
5280 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00005281
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005282- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
5283 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00005284
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005285- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
5286 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00005287
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00005288- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
5289 method used universal newlines.
5290
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00005291- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
5292 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
5293
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00005294- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
5295 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
5296
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00005297- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
5298 files are updated.
5299
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005300- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
5301 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00005302
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00005303- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
5304 configured with --with-system-ffi.
5305
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00005306- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00005307 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00005308
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00005309- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
5310
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005311- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
5312 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
5313 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00005314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005315- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
5316 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00005317
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00005318- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00005319
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00005320- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
5321
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005322- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
5323 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00005324
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00005325- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
5326 to be orderable to properly represent them.
5327
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00005328- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
5329
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00005330- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
5331
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005332- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
5333 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
5334 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00005335
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00005336- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
5337 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
5338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005339- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
5340 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00005341
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005342- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
5343 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00005344
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00005345- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
5346
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00005347- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
5348
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00005349- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
5350 syllables.
5351
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005352- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
5353 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00005354
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00005355- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
5356
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00005357- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
5358 represent the result in a single character.
5359
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00005360- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
5361
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00005362- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
5363
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00005364- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
5365 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
5366 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
5367
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00005368- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
5369
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005370- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
5371 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00005372
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005373- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
5374 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
5375 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00005376
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005377- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
5378 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
5379 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00005380
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00005381- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005382 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
5383 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00005384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005385- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
5386 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00005387
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005388- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
5389 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00005390
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00005391- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
5392
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00005393- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
5394
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005395- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
5396 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
5397 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00005398
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00005399- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
5400
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00005401- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
5402
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00005403- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
5404 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
5405
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00005406- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
5407
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00005408- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
5409
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00005410- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
5411
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005412- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
5413 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00005414
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005415- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
5416 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00005417
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00005418- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
5419 the directories).
5420
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00005421- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
5422 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
5423 injecting HTML into the error page.
5424
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005425- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
5426 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00005427
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005428- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
5429 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005430
5431- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
5432
5433- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
5434
5435- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
5436 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
5437 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
5438
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00005439- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
5440 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
5441 ".cpp" too.
5442
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00005443- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005444 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
5445 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
5446 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00005447
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005448- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
5449 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00005450
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005451- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
5452 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00005453
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00005454- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
5455 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
5456 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
5457 closes patch #723312.
5458
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005459- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
5460 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00005461 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00005462
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00005463- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
5464
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00005465- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
5466 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
5467
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00005468- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
5469
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005470- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
5471 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00005472 directories.
5473
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00005474- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
5475 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
5476 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
5477 trying Mozilla variants.
5478
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00005479- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
5480
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00005481- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
5482 initialization failed.
5483
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00005484- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005485 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
5486 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00005487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005488- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
5489 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
5490 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00005491
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005492- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
5493 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00005494 correctly now.
5495
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00005496- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
5497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005498- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
5499 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00005500
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00005501- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
5502
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005503- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
5504 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
5505 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00005506
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005507- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
5508 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
5509 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
5510 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00005511
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005512- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
5513 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
5514 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00005515
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00005516- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
5517 whitespace while wrapping.
5518
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00005519- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005520 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
5521 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00005522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005523- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
5524 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
5525 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00005526
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00005527- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
5528 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
5529
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005530- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
5531 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00005532
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00005533- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
5534 concatenation in robotparser.
5535
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00005536- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005537 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
5538 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00005539
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00005540- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
5541 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
5542
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00005543- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
5544
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005545- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
5546 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
5547 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00005548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005549- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
5550 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
5551 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00005552
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005553- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
5554 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00005555 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00005556
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00005557- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
5558 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
5559
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00005560- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
5561 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
5562
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00005563- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
5564 returned string up to the first NUL character.
5565
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00005566- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
5567
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00005568- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
5569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005570- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
5571 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
5572 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00005573
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00005574- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
5575
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005576- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
5577 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
5578 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
5579 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
5580 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
5581 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00005582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005583- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
5584 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00005585
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00005586- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
5587 comprehensive test suite for the module.
5588
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00005589- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
5590 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
5591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005592- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
5593 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
5594 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00005595
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005596- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00005597 in HTMLParser.
5598
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00005599- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
5600 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
5601
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00005602- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
5603
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00005604- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
5605
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00005606- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
5607
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00005608- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00005609
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00005610- Added itertools.izip_longest().
5611
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005612- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
5613 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00005614
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00005615- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
5616
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00005617- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
5618 doesn't exist.
5619
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00005620- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
5621
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00005622- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
5623
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005624- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00005625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005626- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
5627 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00005628
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005629- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
5630 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00005631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005632- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
5633 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00005634
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00005635- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005636 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00005637
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00005638- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
5639 iso8859_16.
5640
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005641- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
5642 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
5643 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
5644 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00005645
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005646- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
5647
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00005648- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
5649 directories.
5650
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00005651- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
5652
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005653- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
5654 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00005655
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005656- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005657 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005658
5659- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005660 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005661
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005662- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005663
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005664- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
5665 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00005666
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00005667- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
5668
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00005669- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
5670 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
5671 parameterless foreign function calls work.
5672
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00005673- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
5674
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00005675- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
5676 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
5677 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
5678
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00005679- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
5680 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
5681
5682- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
5683 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
5684
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005685- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
5686 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
5687 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00005688
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005689- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
5690 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00005691
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00005692- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
5693
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005694- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
5695 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00005696
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005697- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
5698 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00005699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005700- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
5701 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00005702
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005703- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
5704 separated lists read from logging config files.
5705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005706- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
5707 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
5708 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005709
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005710- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
5711 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00005712
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00005713- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
5714
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005715- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
5716 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00005717
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00005718- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
5719
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00005720- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
5721
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005722- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
5723 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00005724
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00005725- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
5726 regular files.
5727
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00005728- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
5729
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005730- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
5731 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00005732
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005733- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
5734 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00005735
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00005736- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
5737 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
5738
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00005739- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
5740 file name mangling.
5741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005742- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
5743 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00005744
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00005745- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
5746
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005747- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00005748 HTTPConnection.request().
5749
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00005750- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
5751 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
5752 objects.
5753
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005754- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
5755 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
5756 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00005757
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005758- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
5759 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
5760 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00005761
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005762- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00005763
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005764- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00005765
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00005766- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
5767
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00005768- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005769 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00005770
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00005771- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
5772
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00005773- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
5774 GNU modes.
5775
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00005776- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005777 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00005778 opcode.
5779
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00005780- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
5781 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
5782 statement (bug #1586513).
5783
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00005784- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
5785 correctly.
5786
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00005787- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
5788
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005789- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
5790 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00005791
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00005792- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
5793 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
5794 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
5795
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005796- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
5797 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
5798 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00005799
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005800- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
5801 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00005802
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00005803- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
5804
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00005805- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
5806
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005807- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
5808 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00005809
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005810- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
5811 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00005812
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00005813- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
5814 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
5815
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00005816- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
5817 with a slash.
5818
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00005819- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
5820 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
5821
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00005822- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005823 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00005824
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00005825- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
5826 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
5827 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
5828
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005829- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
5830 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00005831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005832- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
5833 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00005834
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005835- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
5836 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00005837
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00005838- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
5839
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005840- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00005841 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005842
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005843- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
5844 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00005845
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005846- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
5847 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005848
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00005849- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
5850
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005851- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
5852 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00005853
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005854- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
5855 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
5856 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00005857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005858- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
5859 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
5860 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00005861
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005862- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
5863 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
5864 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
5865 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00005866
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005867- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00005868 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
5869 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005870 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
5871 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
5872 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00005873
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005874- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
5875 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00005876
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005877Extension Modules
5878-----------------
5879
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00005880- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00005881
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00005882- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
5883
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00005884- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
5885
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00005886- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00005887
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005888- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
5889 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00005890
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005891- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
5892 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00005893
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005894- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
5895 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00005896
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00005897- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
5898
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00005899- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
5900
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005901- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
5902 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00005903
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00005904- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
5905
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005906- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
5907 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00005908
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00005909- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
5910
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005911- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
5912 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00005913
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005914- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00005915 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
5916 parameter.
5917
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005918- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
5919 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
5920 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
5921 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00005922
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005923- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
5924 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00005925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005926- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
5927 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00005928
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005929- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
5930 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
5931 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00005932
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005933- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
5934 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00005935
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00005936- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
5937
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00005938- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
5939
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005940- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
5941 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
5942 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00005943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005944- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
5945 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00005946
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00005947- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
5948
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00005949- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
5950
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005951- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
5952 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
5953 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
5954 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00005955
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00005956- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
5957 get_completion_type to readline.
5958
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00005959- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
5960 structure.
5961
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00005962- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
5963
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00005964- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
5965
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00005966- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
5967 intended for RECNO databases.
5968
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00005969- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005970 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
5971 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
5972 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
5973 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
5974 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
5975 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00005976
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00005977- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
5978
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00005979- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
5980
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005981- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
5982 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
5983 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
5984 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
5985 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00005986
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00005987- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
5988 error in spite of a succesful compression.
5989
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00005990- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
5991 of Py_ssize_t.
5992
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00005993- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
5994 fractional times. With unittest.
5995
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005996- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
5997 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
5998 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00005999
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00006000- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
6001
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00006002- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
6003
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00006004- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
6005
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00006006- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
6007
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006008- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006009 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00006010
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006011- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
6012 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00006013
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006014- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
6015 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00006016
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00006017- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
6018 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
6019
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006020- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
6021 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
6022 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00006023
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00006024- Speed up function calls into the math module.
6025
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00006026- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
6027 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
6028 does.
6029
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00006030- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
6031
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00006032- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
6033
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00006034- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
6035
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00006036- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
6037
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00006038- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
6039 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
6040
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00006041- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
6042 datetime's strftime function.
6043
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00006044- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
6045
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00006046- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
6047
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006048- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
6049 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00006050
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00006051- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
6052
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00006053- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006054 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
6055 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00006056
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006057- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
6058 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00006059
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00006060- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006061 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
6062 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00006063 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
6064 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00006065 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00006066 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006067
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00006068- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
6069 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
6070 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
6071 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
6072
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00006073- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
6074 were transposed.
6075
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00006076- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
6077 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00006078
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006079- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
6080 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
6081 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00006082
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00006083- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
6084
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00006085- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
6086
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00006087- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
6088
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00006089- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00006090
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00006091- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
6092 databases without a DBEnv.
6093
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00006094- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
6095
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006096Tests
6097-----
6098
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00006099- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00006100
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006101- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
6102 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00006103
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006104- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
6105 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
6106 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00006107
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00006108- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
6109 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00006110
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006111- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
6112 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00006113
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006114- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
6115 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
6116 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00006117
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00006118- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
6119
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006120- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
6121 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
6122 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00006123
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00006124- Added some tests for modulefinder.
6125
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00006126- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
6127
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00006128- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
6129 number properly.
6130
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006131- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
6132 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006133
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006134Tools
6135-----
6136
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006137- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
6138 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
6139 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006140 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00006141
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006142- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
6143 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
6144 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00006145
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00006146- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
6147 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
6148
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006149- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
6150 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006151
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006152- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
6153 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006154
6155- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006156 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
6157 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006158
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006159
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006160Documentation
6161-------------
6162
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006163- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
6164 include new optional delay argument.
6165
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006166- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
6167 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
6168 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006169
6170- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
6171 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
6172
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00006173- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
6174 Python tutorial.
6175
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00006176- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
6177
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006178- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
6179 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00006180
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00006181- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
6182 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
6183
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00006184- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
6185 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
6186
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00006187- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
6188
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00006189- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
6190 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
6191
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006192- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00006193 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
6194
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00006195- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
6196 docs.
6197
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00006198- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
6199
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00006200- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
6201 string pointed to by its parameter.
6202
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00006203- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
6204
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00006205- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006206 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
6207 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
6208 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00006209
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006210
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00006211Tools/Demos
6212-----------
6213
6214- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00006215
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00006216- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006217 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
6218 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00006219
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00006220- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
6221 file not to get reported properly.
6222
6223
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006224Build
6225-----
6226
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006227- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
6228 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
6229 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00006230
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00006231- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
6232 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
6233
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00006234- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
6235
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006236- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006238- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
6239 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
6240 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
6241 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006243- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
6244 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006245
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00006246- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
6247
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00006248- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
6249 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
6250 without this option!
6251
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00006252- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
6253
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00006254- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006255 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
6256 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
6257 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00006258
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006259- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
6260 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00006261
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00006262- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
6263
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00006264- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
6265
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006266- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
6267 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00006268
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006269- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
6270 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00006271
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00006272- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
6273 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
6274 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
6275
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00006276- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
6277 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
6278
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00006279- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
6280
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00006281- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
6282
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006283- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
6284 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00006285
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006286- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00006287 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
6288
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006289- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
6290 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00006291
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00006292- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
6293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006294- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00006295
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00006296- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
6297
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00006298- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
6299
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00006300- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006301
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006302- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
6303 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
6304 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00006305
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006306
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006307C API
6308-----
6309
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006310- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
6311 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
6312 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
6313 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00006314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006315- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
6316 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
6317 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00006318
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006319- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00006320
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006321- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
6322 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
6323 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006324
6325- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
6326
6327- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
6328 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
6329
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006330- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
6331 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
6332 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
6333 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006334
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006335- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
6336 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006337
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006338- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
6339 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
6340 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006341
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006342- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
6343 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006344
6345- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
6346
6347- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
6348
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006349- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
6350
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006351- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
6352
6353- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
6354 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
6355
6356- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
6357 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
6358
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006359- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
6360 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
6361 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006362
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006363- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
6364 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006365
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006366- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
6367 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00006368
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006369
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00006370Windows
6371-------
6372
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006373- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
6374 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
6375 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
6376 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00006377
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006378- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
6379 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00006380
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00006381- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
6382
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00006383
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006384Mac
6385---
6386
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00006387- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
6388
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00006389- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
6390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006391- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
6392 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
6393 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00006394
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00006395----
6396
6397**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**