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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002+++++++++++
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Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02004What's New in Python 2.7.3?
5===========================
6
7*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
8
9Core and Builtins
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11
Ezio Melotti15d6b652011-08-15 09:22:24 +030012- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
13 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
14
Benjamin Peterson6c18ff02011-07-22 10:41:44 -050015- Issues #12610 and #12609: Verify that user generated AST has correct string
16 and identifier types before compiling.
17
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -040018- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
19 non-exception class.
Benjamin Petersonc3349cd2011-07-15 14:15:40 -050020
Antoine Pitrou16166452011-07-12 22:04:20 +020021- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionnary gets
22 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
23 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
24 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
25 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
26
Victor Stinnerba8b3a22011-07-08 02:07:45 +020027- Issue #12501: Adjust callable() warning: callable() is only not supported in
28 Python 3.1. callable() is again supported in Python 3.2.
29
Victor Stinner59729ff2011-07-05 11:28:19 +020030- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read(), FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write() and
31 os.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
32
Victor Stinnerd3c7e172011-05-30 23:49:13 +020033- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +020034 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
35 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
36
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -040037- dict_proxy objects now display their contents rather than just the class
38 name.
Raymond Hettingerbf7a2662011-06-30 00:44:36 +010039
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +020040Library
41-------
42
Antoine Pitrou77657e42011-08-24 22:41:05 +020043- Issue #4106: Fix occasional exceptions printed out by multiprocessing on
44 interpreter shutdown.
45
Antoine Pitroua1a8da82011-08-23 19:54:20 +020046- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
47 Pipe.
48
Antoine Pitrou808cec52011-08-20 15:40:58 +020049- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
50 could appear on io.BufferedRandom streams.
51
Victor Stinneracacbaa2011-08-20 14:02:38 +020052- Issue #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python
53 is compiled on Linux 3.
54
Éric Araujoe7329f42011-08-19 03:07:39 +020055- Issue #9173: Let shutil._make_archive work if the logger argument is None.
56
Charles-François Natalib02302c2011-08-18 17:18:28 +020057- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
58 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
59
Barry Warsaw39935f42011-08-15 19:50:35 -040060- Issue #12752: Fix regression which prevented locale.normalize() from
61 accepting unicode strings.
62
Senthil Kumaranf432aec2011-08-03 18:31:59 +080063- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
64 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
65
Éric Araujo33af2632011-08-02 03:16:12 +020066- Issue #11933: Fix incorrect mtime comparison in distutils.
67
Éric Araujo560bf852011-07-31 02:04:00 +020068- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
69 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
70
Éric Araujo9a528302011-07-29 17:34:35 +020071- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
72 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
73
Charles-François Natali0cf7e252011-07-27 19:36:40 +020074- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
75
Raymond Hettinger55e5e272011-07-28 23:56:38 -070076- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
77 collections when it is done.
78
Ross Lagerwalld8e39012011-07-27 18:54:53 +020079- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
80 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
81
Ross Lagerwall528c4ad2011-07-25 07:23:58 +020082- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
83 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
84
Charles-François Natali3de8c732011-07-24 22:33:35 +020085- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
86
Antoine Pitrou4cfae022011-07-24 02:51:01 +020087- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup and setting/getting locales under Turkish
88 locales.
89
Nadeem Vawda0d2889f2011-07-23 16:13:01 +020090- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib when using FTP.
Nadeem Vawdab42c53e2011-07-23 15:51:16 +020091
Charles-François Natali97781b02011-07-22 23:43:42 +020092- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
93
Charles-François Natali4929eb92011-07-21 19:41:04 +020094- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
95
Antoine Pitrou495ee8f2011-07-20 00:26:23 +020096- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
97 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
98 Linux 3.0.
99
R David Murray95225952011-07-18 21:34:04 -0400100- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
101 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
102
Antoine Pitrou304f0f92011-07-15 21:22:50 +0200103- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
104 Andreas Stührk.
105
Charles-François Natali26591402011-07-14 19:49:02 +0200106- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
107
Victor Stinnerbf547fd2011-07-13 21:47:31 +0200108- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
109 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
110
Victor Stinnere7901312011-07-05 14:08:01 +0200111- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
112 if the process has only one pipe.
113
Victor Stinner65c15352011-07-04 03:05:37 +0200114- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
115 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
116
Charles-François Natali414d0fa2011-07-02 13:56:19 +0200117- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
118 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
119
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -0700120- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
121 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
122 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
123 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
124 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
125 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
126 still possible to globally override the default by setting
127 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
128 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
129 was built.
130
Raymond Hettinger2c316a32011-06-25 17:14:53 +0200131- Issue #11802: The cache in filecmp now has a maximum size of 100 so that
132 it won't grow without bound.
133
Ross Lagerwallffa8e2f2011-06-25 09:55:10 +0200134- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
135 Kitada.
136
R David Murrayf1138bb2011-06-17 22:23:04 -0400137- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
138 times without error, and _ProxyFile now closes the wrapped file.
139
Victor Stinnerc74a6ba2011-06-17 14:06:27 +0200140- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
141 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
142 written by Ezio Melotti.
143
Benjamin Peterson0eb4ac42011-06-11 15:53:11 -0500144- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
145 functions.
146
R David Murray873c5832011-06-09 16:01:09 -0400147- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
148
Brian Curtincaea7e82011-06-08 19:29:53 -0500149- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
150 instead of os.stat.
151
Mark Dickinsona493ca32011-06-04 18:24:15 +0100152- Issue #12080: Fix a performance issue in Decimal._power_exact that caused
153 some corner-case Decimal.__pow__ calls to take an unreasonably long time.
154
Raymond Hettinger45b08292011-06-02 20:40:35 -0700155- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
156
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400157- sys.setcheckinterval() now updates the current ticker count as well as
158 updating the check interval, so if the user decreases the check interval,
159 the ticker doesn't have to wind down to zero from the old starting point
160 before the new interval takes effect. And if the user increases the
161 interval, it makes sure the new limit takes effect right away rather have an
162 early task switch before recognizing the new interval.
Raymond Hettinger19b851d2011-06-01 18:21:42 -0700163
Victor Stinner776e69b2011-06-01 01:03:00 +0200164- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
165 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
166 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
167
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400168Extension Modules
169-----------------
170
171- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
172 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
173 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
174
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700175Build
176-----
177
178- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
179 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
180 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
181 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
182
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -0400183Tools/Demos
184-----------
185
186- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
187 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
188
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +0200189Tests
190-----
191
Charles-François Natalicdaafe02011-08-23 19:42:02 +0200192- Issue #12821: Fix test_fcntl failures on OpenBSD 5.
193
Éric Araujo498da2c2011-07-31 17:59:28 +0200194- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
195 Python.
196
Ned Deily0ab67ee2011-07-13 15:05:31 -0700197- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
198 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
199
Antoine Pitrou4a4a0fe2011-07-09 02:34:05 +0200200- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
201 failure in name resolution.
202
Antoine Pitrou29603082011-07-08 19:40:15 +0200203- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
204 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
205 Web site.
206
Antoine Pitroua4d58d22011-07-08 19:14:19 +0200207- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
208 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
209 is now skipped instead.
210
Ned Deily46268c42011-07-03 21:52:35 -0700211- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
212 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
213 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
214
Ned Deily63144c62011-06-28 00:39:19 -0700215- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that
216 test_build_ext of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when
217 run outside of a build directory.
218
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700219- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
220 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
221
Ned Deily64e59952011-06-27 23:09:31 -0700222- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
223 on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
224
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +0200225- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
226 iso2022_kr).
227
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200228
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000229What's New in Python 2.7.2?
230===========================
231
Benjamin Peterson9843ba52011-06-11 09:42:44 -0500232*Release date: 2011-06-11*
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -0500233
Benjamin Peterson43ee1a52011-06-10 11:32:52 -0500234Library
235-------
236
237- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
238
Benjamin Peterson4ba009d2011-05-31 18:59:49 -0500239Extension Modules
240-----------------
241
242- Issue #1221: Make pyexpat.__version__ equal to the Python version.
243
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -0500244
245What's New in Python 2.7.2 release candidate 1?
246===============================================
247
Benjamin Petersoncd207052011-05-29 16:50:27 -0500248*Release date: 2011-05-29*
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000249
250Core and Builtins
251-----------------
252
Ned Deily482f9082011-05-28 00:11:54 -0700253- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
254 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
255 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
256 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
257
Benjamin Petersonef1122c2011-06-03 16:17:22 -0500258- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. This allows old-style classes to have
259 __dir__. It also causes errors besides AttributeError found on lookup to be
260 propagated.
Benjamin Peterson8de87a62011-05-23 16:11:05 -0500261
Victor Stinner2c585f62011-05-10 00:22:59 +0200262- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
263 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
264
Victor Stinner0a92d182011-05-03 15:09:24 +0200265- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
266 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
267 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
268
Victor Stinner645b9f62011-05-03 15:06:11 +0200269- Issue #8651: Fix "z#" format of PyArg_Parse*() function: the size was not
270 written if PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
271
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +0200272- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
273 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
274 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner97cf5852011-05-01 23:51:11 +0200275 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +0200276
Antoine Pitrou1f9eb152011-04-27 19:26:06 +0200277- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
278 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
279 by Charles-François Natali.
280
Ezio Melottie3685f62011-04-26 05:12:51 +0300281- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
282 accepted too.
283
Ezio Melottic283a852011-04-15 16:14:04 +0300284- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
285 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
286 chars (e.g. u"\U00012345"[0]).
287
Victor Stinner5de51ac2011-04-09 16:09:08 +0200288- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
289 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
290 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
291
Mark Dickinson874d59e2011-03-26 12:18:00 +0000292- Issue #11144: Ensure that int(a_float) returns an int whenever possible.
293 Previously, there were some corner cases where a long was returned even
294 though the result was within the range of an int.
295
Antoine Pitrou2ddaaff2011-03-09 12:54:00 +0100296- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
297 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
298
Antoine Pitrou3013b162011-01-18 19:06:19 +0000299- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
300 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
301
Benjamin Peterson9b911ca2011-01-12 15:49:47 +0000302- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
303 class.
304
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +0000305- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
306 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
307 Patch by Matt Bandy.
308
Raymond Hettinger57a86892011-01-25 21:43:29 +0000309- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
310
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcac514c82011-01-03 00:50:57 +0000311- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
312 can now handle dates after 2038.
313
R. David Murray64a1e7c2010-12-15 01:36:03 +0000314- Issue #4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly
315 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
316 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
317
Jesus Cea44e81682011-04-20 16:39:15 +0200318- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
319 Patch by Torsten Becker.
320
Benjamin Peterson07f54512010-12-11 04:25:57 +0000321- Issue #10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
322
Mark Dickinsonecf8ec62010-12-04 12:30:41 +0000323- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
324 float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be
325 0.0, not -0.0.
326
Eli Bendersky680e6eb2011-03-04 06:14:56 +0000327- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
328 empty, instead of OverflowError.
329
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000330Library
331-------
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +0000332
Ned Deilyd8b17232011-07-26 18:16:08 -0700333- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
334 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
335
Benjamin Peterson4fa68ab2011-05-26 09:56:41 -0500336- Issue #12161: Cause StringIO.getvalue() to raise a ValueError when used on a
337 closed StringIO instance.
338
Victor Stinnerdbfba162011-05-26 13:37:25 +0200339- Issue #12182: Fix pydoc.HTMLDoc.multicolumn() if Python uses the new (true)
340 division (python -Qnew). Patch written by Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve.
341
Victor Stinnerdaf17e92011-05-25 22:52:37 +0200342- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
343
Victor Stinner5100a402011-05-25 22:15:36 +0200344- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
345 if the file is closed.
346
Charles-François Natalib94e0cd2011-05-24 23:10:54 +0200347- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, use makefile() to wrap the SSL socket to avoid
348 heap fragmentation and MemoryError with some malloc implementations.
349
Victor Stinner40b41e12011-05-24 22:29:13 +0200350- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
351 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
352 final argument is True.
353
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +0200354- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
355 to be able to unload the module.
356
Ronald Oussorenb13cacf2011-05-17 15:13:46 +0200357- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
358 with Tk 8.5.
359
Ronald Oussoren372954e2011-05-17 13:22:30 +0200360- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
361 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
362
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +0200363- Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is
Ronald Oussoren53b6a5f2011-05-15 16:51:10 +0200364 set in shell.
365
Nadeem Vawda0cc4fd92011-05-14 14:29:07 +0200366- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
367 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
368
Antoine Pitrouee46a7b2011-05-13 00:31:52 +0200369- Issue #12062: In the `io` module, fix a flushing bug when doing a certain
370 type of I/O sequence on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading,
371 seeking a bit forward, writing, then seeking before the previous write but
372 still within buffered data, and writing again).
373
Antoine Pitrou47d1d0d2011-05-10 19:16:03 +0200374- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
375 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
376
Victor Stinnerb1241f92011-05-10 01:52:03 +0200377- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
378
Martin v. Löwis591c2df2011-05-09 08:19:13 +0200379- Issue #11164: Remove obsolete allnodes test from minidom test.
380
Antoine Pitrou21ce8f02011-05-07 19:59:33 +0200381- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
382 by Kasun Herath.
383
R David Murray8b26c4b2011-05-06 21:56:22 -0400384- Issue 11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
385 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
386 previous value of the mtime.
387
Ronald Oussoren58d6b1b2011-05-06 11:31:33 +0200388- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
389 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
390 for the case.
391
Ezio Melottidf8a8f72011-05-04 14:40:53 +0300392- Issue #11982: fix json.loads('""') to return u'' rather than ''.
393
Victor Stinner112d48a2011-05-03 14:36:36 +0200394- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
395 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
396
Senthil Kumaran011525e2011-04-28 15:30:31 +0800397- Issue #10761: Fix tarfile.extractall failure when symlinked files are
398 present. Initial patch by Scott Leerssen.
399
Ezio Melotti34b32d62011-04-27 09:45:46 +0300400- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
401 strings are too long.
402
Senthil Kumaran5dc68682011-04-26 21:17:45 +0800403- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
404
Victor Stinner33feeab2011-04-18 16:33:28 +0200405- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
406 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
407 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
408
Raymond Hettingere0156c42011-04-19 09:48:39 -0700409- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
410 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
411
Martin v. Löwis2d253dd2011-04-17 22:29:40 +0200412- Issue #11442: Add a charset parameter to the Content-type in SimpleHTTPServer
413 to avoid XSS attacks.
414
Senthil Kumaranddaea1c2011-04-15 18:07:33 +0800415- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
416 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
417
Raymond Hettinger37c0fe52011-04-15 13:12:21 -0700418- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
419
Senthil Kumarana99b7612011-04-14 12:54:35 +0800420- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
421 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
422
Ezio Melotti2b96f092011-04-13 05:37:29 +0300423- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
424 _json is not available.
425
426- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran0531d6f2011-04-13 09:47:20 +0800427 url contains #fragment.
428
R David Murrayea8b6ef2011-04-12 21:00:26 -0400429- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
430 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
431
brian.curtin16f98b72011-04-11 18:05:33 -0500432- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
433 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
434
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +0300435- Issue #4877: Fix a segfault in xml.parsers.expat while attempting to parse
436 a closed file.
437
Raymond Hettingere4579c32011-04-11 17:27:42 -0700438- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
439 It was causing a failed import in the Turkish locale where the locale
440 sensitive str.upper() method caused a name mismatch.
441
Antoine Pitrou7dfc8742011-04-11 00:26:42 +0200442- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
443 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
444 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
445
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +0300446- Issue #7311: Fix HTMLParser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
Ezio Melotti9f1ffb22011-04-05 20:40:52 +0300447
Ross Lagerwall104c3f12011-04-05 15:24:34 +0200448- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
449
guido@google.com2bc23b82011-03-24 10:44:17 -0700450- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
guido@google.comdb3080e2011-03-28 13:53:40 -0700451 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +0000452
Benjamin Peterson77d46602011-03-28 17:32:31 -0500453- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
454 arguments.
455
Martin v. Löwis03f7e232011-03-27 20:58:52 +0200456- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
457
Mark Dickinsond687be02011-03-27 16:15:24 +0100458- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
459 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
460
Mark Dickinson1829e8f2011-03-27 15:32:05 +0100461- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
462 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
463 documentation.
464
Martin v. Löwis49b0ce02011-03-27 10:10:46 +0200465- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi.
466
Raymond Hettinger9aa5a342011-03-25 16:00:13 -0700467- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
468 that start with a leading underscore.
469
Mark Dickinsonf9e9a6f2011-03-25 22:01:06 +0000470- Issue #11673: Fix multiprocessing Array and RawArray constructors to accept a
471 size of type 'long', rather than only accepting 'int'.
472
Éric Araujo374274d2011-03-19 04:29:36 +0100473- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
474 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
475
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -0400476- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
477 setup and teardown.
478
Ronald Oussoren2ab59942011-03-16 09:47:15 -0400479- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
480 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
481 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
482
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -0400483- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
484 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussoren1aa999c2011-03-14 18:53:59 -0400485
Mark Dickinson2c8c62e2011-03-12 11:05:32 +0000486- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when
487 the context rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
488
Ned Deily9d4836e2011-03-09 02:31:55 -0800489- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
490 initialization fails.
491
Antoine Pitroud6f3a3e2011-03-06 02:03:34 +0100492- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
493 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
494 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
495
R. David Murray1a337902011-03-03 18:17:40 +0000496- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
497 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
498 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
499
Giampaolo Rodolàd65224f2011-03-03 14:17:51 +0000500- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
501 on accept(), send() and recv().
502
Antoine Pitroud3f6ea12011-02-26 23:35:27 +0000503- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
504 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
505
Antoine Pitrou6439c002011-02-25 21:35:47 +0000506- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
507 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
508
Georg Brandl28046022011-02-25 11:01:04 +0000509- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
510 argparse.
511
Antoine Pitrouf4d2b3d2011-02-21 23:59:20 +0000512- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
513 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
514 32-bit Windows.
515
Georg Brandl52f83952011-02-25 10:39:23 +0000516- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
517 membership of non-weakrefable objects.
518
519- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
520
521- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
522
Barry Warsaw42bb7ca2011-02-14 20:04:00 +0000523- Issue #11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix !=
524 --exec-prefix, which caused Python to not start.
525
R. David Murray008c0442011-02-11 23:03:13 +0000526- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
527 a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
528
Antoine Pitrou820021e2011-01-31 21:47:45 +0000529- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
530 Patch by Stan Mihai.
531
Ned Deily60651532011-01-31 00:52:49 +0000532- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
533 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
534 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
535
Ned Deily2a6f4b32011-01-30 00:18:47 +0000536- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
537 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
538 64-/32-bit installer variant.
539
Ned Deilyefc527a2011-01-29 19:30:39 +0000540- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
541 commands.
542
Vinay Sajipcdb83882011-01-21 23:35:57 +0000543- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
544
Antoine Pitrou8a0eede2011-01-20 21:20:18 +0000545- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
546 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
547
Antoine Pitrou63a3f152011-01-19 15:27:24 +0000548- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
549 a symbol named FSTAT.
550
Ned Deily4a705502011-01-18 04:33:22 +0000551- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
552 Cocoa AquaTk.
553
Antoine Pitrou9989d852011-01-15 16:18:57 +0000554- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
555 length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
556 is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
557
Terry Reedyf7dd7992011-01-10 22:15:19 +0000558- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
559
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +0000560- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime
561 function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
562 false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range
563 accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
564 dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
565 by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
566
Georg Brandl6adb9792011-01-09 07:53:14 +0000567- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
568 node twice.
569
Antoine Pitrou1f1613f2011-01-06 18:30:26 +0000570- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
571 on an existing file.
572
Antoine Pitrou77c1b382011-01-06 17:19:05 +0000573- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
574 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
575
Antoine Pitrou91ce0d92011-01-03 18:45:09 +0000576- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
577 file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
578 patch by Ross Lagerwall.
579
Antoine Pitroub0614612011-01-02 20:04:52 +0000580- Issue #4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
581 DeprecationWarning.
582
Raymond Hettinger8ebebd82011-01-02 01:03:26 +0000583- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
584
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100585- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
Senthil Kumaran559395f2010-12-29 06:30:19 +0000586 variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's
587 request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
588 params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
589
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100590- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
Terry Reedy0df73672010-12-28 19:53:32 +0000591
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100592- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murray08fc7012010-12-28 19:11:03 +0000593 browsers actually parse cookies.
594
R. David Murray5360d002010-12-27 19:17:17 +0000595- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
596 email.header.Header.encode.
597
R. David Murray5874ed62010-12-26 22:29:53 +0000598- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
599 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
600 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
601
Antoine Pitroufc9ead62010-12-21 21:26:55 +0000602- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
603
Daniel Stutzbach57cf0af2011-01-04 18:47:17 +0000604- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
Michael Foorde6e0e262010-12-19 15:52:56 +0000605 about input.
606
Michael Foorda17f0762010-12-19 14:53:19 +0000607- Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
608
Antoine Pitroud7b6ac62010-12-18 18:18:21 +0000609- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
610 to avoid denial of services from the other party.
611
R. David Murray3f752ab2010-12-18 17:22:18 +0000612- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
613
614- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray7a697252010-12-18 03:52:09 +0000615 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
616
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +0000617- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
618 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
619
Senthil Kumaran5c7fd6e2010-12-17 04:56:02 +0000620- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
621 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000622
Antoine Pitrou47d9b0e2010-12-16 17:11:34 +0000623- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
624 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
625
Éric Araujoe04c13c2010-12-15 21:15:25 +0000626- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
627
R. David Murraydacb8042010-12-14 14:34:16 +0000628- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
629 causes debug mode to fail.
630
Ronald Oussoren8ec374c2010-12-07 16:02:59 +0000631- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
632
Ronald Oussoren517858a2010-12-07 16:13:17 +0000633- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
634 platforms).
635
Antoine Pitrou4cb64ad2010-12-03 19:31:52 +0000636- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
637 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
638 current process.
639
Éric Araujofb3de6b2010-12-03 19:24:49 +0000640- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
641
R. David Murrayd75cc912010-12-02 03:16:23 +0000642- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
643
Gregory P. Smith312efbc2010-12-14 15:02:53 +0000644- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
645 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
646 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
647
Steven Bethardf8583ac2011-01-24 20:40:15 +0000648- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
649 argparse.FileType.
650
Steven Bethard3f69a052011-03-26 19:59:02 +0100651- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
652
653- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
654
Steven Bethard5e0062d2011-03-26 21:50:38 +0100655- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
656 their children.
657
Steven Bethardbc3b1042011-03-27 13:57:55 +0200658- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
659
Steven Betharde3c11b42011-04-04 01:47:52 +0200660- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
661
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +0000662Extension Modules
663-----------------
664
Benjamin Peterson6116d4a2011-05-17 18:31:20 -0500665- Stop using the old interface for providing methods and attributes in the _sre
666 module. Among other things, this gives these classes ``__class__``
667 attributes. (See #12099)
668
Ezio Melotti0639be62011-05-07 19:21:22 +0300669- Issue #10169: Fix argument parsing in socket.sendto() to avoid error masking.
670
Ezio Melottic1ec7b52011-05-11 00:55:35 +0300671- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
672 objects using the C accelerations.
673
Ezio Melotticec46492011-05-07 17:40:23 +0300674- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
675 objects using the C accelerations.
676
Benjamin Petersonf21ad922011-03-26 17:56:28 -0500677- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
678 to an instance of the class.
679
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +0000680- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
681
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +0000682Build
683-----
684
Ned Deily22f63b52011-05-28 05:56:14 -0700685- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
686 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
687 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
688
Thomas Wouters5edae7e2011-03-06 11:48:05 -0800689- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
690
Georg Brandl94800df2011-02-25 11:09:02 +0000691- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
692
693- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
694
Georg Brandl71f4fbb2011-02-25 11:04:50 +0000695- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
696
Ned Deilye6cc7d62011-02-21 21:00:09 +0000697- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
698 package had previously been installed.
699
Ned Deily68adfdc2011-02-07 16:52:25 +0000700- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac
701 OS X installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
702
Ned Deily53c460d2011-01-30 01:43:40 +0000703- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
704 the system-provided Python.
705
706- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X
707 32-bit installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
708 (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
709 support enabled).
710
Antoine Pitrou9828b562011-01-03 19:11:32 +0000711- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
712
Antoine Pitrou31e85952011-01-03 18:57:14 +0000713- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
714 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
715
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +0000716- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
717 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
718
David Malcolm4c29e1c2011-01-06 17:39:24 +0000719- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
720 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
721 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
722 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
723
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -0400724- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
725 using GCC 4.0.
726
Raymond Hettinger179816d2011-04-12 18:54:46 -0700727IDLE
728----
729
730- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
731 file in a package.
732
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +0000733Tests
734-----
735
Ned Deilyc4f97f42011-05-29 02:36:17 -0700736- Issue #12205: Fix test_subprocess failure due to uninstalled test data.
737
Ezio Melottie3992eb2011-05-14 06:24:53 +0300738- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
739
Ezio Melotti5c5d7e22011-05-09 06:54:53 +0300740- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
741
Nadeem Vawdabafc6a92011-04-19 01:35:58 +0200742- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
743
Ross Lagerwallfe2f1ad2011-04-09 20:39:50 +0200744- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
745 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
746
Ned Deily5f511822011-04-05 17:16:09 -0700747- Issue #7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@'
748 or '.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
749
R David Murraycdd5fc92011-03-13 22:37:18 -0400750- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
751 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
752
Antoine Pitrou8bc59fa2011-01-12 18:56:09 +0000753- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
754 by Ross Lagerwall.
755
Antoine Pitrou8c688be2011-01-03 20:49:01 +0000756- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
757 in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
758 explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
759
R. David Murrayf8a63912010-12-14 16:26:30 +0000760- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
761 encountering them.
762
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +0000763- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
764 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
765
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000766
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +0000767What's New in Python 2.7.1?
768===========================
769
Benjamin Peterson3e0fa422010-11-27 14:40:29 +0000770*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +0000771
772Library
773-------
774
Éric Araujo54274ad2011-02-03 00:12:18 +0000775- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
776
777- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
778
Raymond Hettinger061bf7a2010-11-30 03:15:35 +0000779- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
780 inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
781 iterator was undefined.
782
Alexander Belopolsky1fea5c42010-11-30 01:18:17 +0000783- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
784 ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
785
Georg Brandl79f096a2010-11-26 07:57:57 +0000786- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
787
Martin v. Löwise03c7782010-11-22 10:53:46 +0000788- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
789
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +0000790- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
791
Senthil Kumaran9a5897b2010-11-29 12:41:03 +0000792- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
793
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +0000794- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
795 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
796
Georg Brandl86e0c892010-11-26 07:22:28 +0000797- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
798 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
799 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
800
Senthil Kumaran0b7cac12010-11-22 05:04:33 +0000801- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
802 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
803
Brian Curtin2d011ed2010-11-21 23:50:51 +0000804- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
805 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
806
Éric Araujo4fadd532010-11-20 20:02:41 +0000807- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
808
Georg Brandl839c1132010-11-20 11:29:38 +0000809- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
810 is called without data.
811
Benjamin Peterson4fec9ce2010-11-20 17:31:08 +0000812- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
813 end of the file.
814
Senthil Kumaran501bfd82010-11-14 03:31:52 +0000815- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
816
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +0000817Build
818-----
819
Brian Curtin69a106a2010-11-22 02:08:49 +0000820- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
821
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +0000822- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
823
Ezio Melotti2623a372010-11-21 13:34:58 +0000824Tests
825-----
826
827- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
828
Ezio Melottibf8484e2010-11-24 21:54:47 +0000829Documentation
830-------------
831
832- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
833
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +0000834
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +0000835What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
836===============================================
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000837
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +0000838*Release date: 2010-11-13*
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000839
840Core and Builtins
841-----------------
842
Raymond Hettinger2ad17e12010-10-30 08:17:46 +0000843- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
844 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
845
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000846- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
847 ``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +0000848
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000849- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
850 length of the offending line.
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +0000851
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +0000852- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
853 resolution.
854
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +0000855- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
856 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
857
Jesus Cea33c722b2010-11-04 21:39:52 +0000858- Issue #9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
859 warning.
860
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +0000861- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
862 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
863
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +0000864- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
865 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
866 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
867 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
868
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +0000869- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
870
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +0000871- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
872 thread-local storage key.
873
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +0000874- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
875 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
876 the same behaviour than the print statement.
877
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +0000878- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
879 a memoryview object.
880
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +0000881- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
882
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +0000883- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
884
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +0000885- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
886 of an array.
887
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +0000888- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
889
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +0000890- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
891 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
892
893 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
894 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
895
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +0000896- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
897 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000898
899Library
900-------
901
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100902- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +0000903
Antoine Pitrou7eaa4482010-11-09 23:15:18 +0000904- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
905 Lorenzo M. Catucci.
906
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +0000907- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
908 --enable-shared.
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +0000909
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +0000910- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
911
912- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
913
914- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
915 not in build_clib.
916
Éric Araujoe9954b52010-11-06 04:53:42 +0000917- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
918 Arfrever.
919
Éric Araujoe28665a2010-11-06 04:36:28 +0000920- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
921
Éric Araujod1feff72010-11-06 04:06:18 +0000922- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
923 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
924
Antoine Pitrou6b1167c2010-11-05 19:55:02 +0000925- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
926 its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
927
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000928- Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
929 from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
Michael Foorde5dc24e2010-11-01 22:11:53 +0000930
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000931- Issue #120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
932
933- Issue #6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
934 EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
935 instead.
Giampaolo Rodolà19e9fef2010-11-01 15:07:14 +0000936
Antoine Pitrou61d14b72010-10-31 16:17:36 +0000937- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
938 as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
939
Antoine Pitrou3917c092010-10-31 13:12:48 +0000940- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
941 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
942
Antoine Pitrou594a0462010-10-31 13:05:48 +0000943- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
944 for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
945
Raymond Hettingercbba8d42010-10-30 07:29:44 +0000946- Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
947
Antoine Pitrou638cee62010-10-28 14:50:57 +0000948- Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file
949 object with custom buffering from two threads at once.
950
Antoine Pitrou7f081022010-10-27 18:43:21 +0000951- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
952 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
953 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
954
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +0000955- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
956 initialization.
957
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +0000958- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
959 ntpath.relpath().
960
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100961- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +0000962 debugging in doctests.
963
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +0000964- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
965 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
966
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +0000967- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
968 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
969
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +0000970- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
971
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +0000972- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
973
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +0000974- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
975 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
976
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +0000977- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
978 gettext.
979
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +0000980- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
981 gname field.
982
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +0000983- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
984 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
985
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +0000986- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
987 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
988
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +0000989- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
990 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
991 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
992 with a timeout.
993
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +0000994- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
995
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +0000996- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
997
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +0000998- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
999
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +00001000- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
1001
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +00001002- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
1003 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
1004
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +00001005- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
1006 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
1007 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
1008 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
1009 by Andrew Bennetts.
1010
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +00001011- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
1012 values: d['x'] = d.
1013
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +00001014- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +00001015
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +00001016- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
1017 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
1018
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +00001019- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
1020 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
1021 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
1022 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
1023 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
1024 to zero.
1025
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00001026- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001027 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00001028 value.
1029
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +00001030- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
1031 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
1032 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
1033 original error is re-raised.
1034
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +00001035- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
1036 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
1037 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
1038
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +00001039- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
1040 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
1041
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +00001042- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
1043 ConfigParser.write.
1044
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +00001045- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
1046 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
1047
Terry Reedyd2d2ae92010-11-11 23:22:19 +00001048- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
1049 can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
1050 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
1051
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +00001052- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
1053 falling into recursion.
1054
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +00001055- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
1056 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
1057
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +00001058- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
1059 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
1060
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00001061- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +00001062 error handling when accepting a new connection.
1063
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +00001064- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
1065 errors.
1066
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +00001067- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
1068
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +00001069- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
1070 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
1071
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +00001072- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
1073 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
1074
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00001075- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
1076 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
1077
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +00001078- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
1079 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
1080 overridden to provide ordered views.
1081
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +00001082- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
1083 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
1084 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
1085
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +00001086- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
1087 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
1088 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
1089
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +00001090- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
1091 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
1092 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
1093 patch by Jason V. Miller.
1094
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +00001095- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
1096 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
1097
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +00001098- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
1099 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
1100
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +00001101- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
1102 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
1103 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
1104
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +00001105- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
1106 current node.
1107
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +00001108- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
1109
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +00001110- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
1111 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
1112
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +00001113- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
1114 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
1115 behavior was wrong.
1116
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +00001117- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
1118
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +00001119- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
1120 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
1121
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +00001122- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
1123 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
1124 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
1125
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00001126- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
1127
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00001128- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
1129 the command line.
1130
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +00001131- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
1132 interactive browser.
1133
1134- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
1135 regular expressions.
1136
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +00001137- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
1138 data generated with the profile module.
1139
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +00001140- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
1141 entries, consider the first one.
1142
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +00001143- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
1144 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
1145
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +00001146- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
1147 in the top-level debugged frame.
1148
1149- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
1150 in doctests.
1151
1152- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
1153 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
1154
1155- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
1156 been reassigned.
1157
1158- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
1159 a breakpoint command.
1160
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +00001161- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
1162 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
1163
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +00001164- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
1165 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
1166
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +00001167- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
1168
1169- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
1170 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
1171
1172- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
1173 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
1174
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +00001175- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
1176
1177- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
1178
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +00001179- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
1180 across devices.
1181
1182- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
1183
1184- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
1185
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +00001186- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
1187 string when Unicode was previously output.
1188
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +00001189- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
1190 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
1191
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +00001192- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
1193 utf-16 incremental encoders.
1194
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +00001195- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
1196
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +00001197- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
1198 parameters.
1199
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +00001200- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
1201 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
1202 XML-RPC request.
1203
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +00001204- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
1205
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +00001206- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
1207 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
1208 options).
1209
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +00001210- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
1211
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +00001212- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
1213 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
1214 (Jan Hosang).
1215
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +00001216- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
1217
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +00001218- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
1219 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
1220 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
1221
1222- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
1223 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
1224 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
1225
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +00001226- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
1227 strings in add_option calls.
1228
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +00001229- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
1230
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +00001231- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001232
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +00001233- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
1234
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00001235- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
1236 for tracing methods.
1237
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001238Extension Modules
1239-----------------
1240
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +00001241- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
1242 with expat version 2.0.1.
1243
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00001244- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001245 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00001246
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +00001247- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
1248 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
1249
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +00001250- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
1251 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
1252
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00001253- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
1254 interpreter by default.
1255
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +00001256- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
1257 to prevent crashes.
1258
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +00001259- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
1260 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
1261 2**31 elements.
1262
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +00001263- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
1264
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +00001265- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
1266 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
1267
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +00001268- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
1269 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
1270
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +00001271- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
1272
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +00001273- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
1274
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +00001275- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
1276
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +00001277- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
1278 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
1279 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
1280 returns the same information as the id command.
1281
1282 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
1283
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +00001284- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
1285 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
1286 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
1287 char is unsigned.
1288
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +00001289- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
1290
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04001291
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00001292Tools/Demos
1293-----------
1294
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +00001295- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
1296
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00001297- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
1298 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
1299 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
1300
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00001301Build
1302-----
1303
Antoine Pitroue0c5f3c2010-10-27 20:35:26 +00001304- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
1305
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +00001306- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
1307 Akira Kitada.
1308
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +00001309- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
1310
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +00001311- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
1312
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +00001313- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
1314 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
1315
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +00001316- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
1317 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
1318
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +00001319- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
1320 Sablé.
1321
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +00001322- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
1323 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
1324 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +00001325
1326- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
1327 Sébastien Sablé.
1328
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00001329- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
1330
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001331- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
1332 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +00001333
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001334- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
1335 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
1336 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +00001337
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00001338- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
1339 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
1340 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
1341
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +00001342- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
1343 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00001344
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00001345Tests
1346-----
1347
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +00001348- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
1349 in test_os)
1350
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +00001351- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
1352
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00001353- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
1354 case when running profile or trace, for example.
1355
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00001356- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00001357
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +00001358- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
1359
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +00001360- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
1361
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00001362- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
1363
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +00001364- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
1365
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +00001366- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
1367 Michele Orrù.
1368
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00001369- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
1370
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +00001371- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
1372
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00001373Documentation
1374-------------
1375
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +00001376- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
1377 to Doc/license.rst.
1378
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +00001379- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
1380 with os.kill.
1381
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001382- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
1383 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +00001384
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001385- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00001386
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001387
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00001388What's New in Python 2.7?
1389=========================
1390
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +00001391*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00001392
1393Core and Builtins
1394-----------------
1395
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +00001396- Prevent assignment to set literals.
1397
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00001398Library
1399-------
1400
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +00001401- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
1402 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
1403
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +00001404- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
1405
1406Extension Modules
1407-----------------
1408
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +00001409- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
1410 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00001411
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +00001412- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
1413 on an OpenSSL structure.
1414
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +00001415
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00001416What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
1417=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001418
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +00001419*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001420
1421Core and Builtins
1422-----------------
1423
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +00001424- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
1425
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +00001426- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
1427 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
1428 See tracker issue for details.
1429
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +00001430- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
1431 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
1432 (higher than 0x10000).
1433
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +00001434- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
1435 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +00001436
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +00001437Build
1438-----
1439
1440- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
1441
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001442Library
1443-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00001444
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00001445- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +00001446 raises an exception.
1447
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +00001448- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
1449 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
1450 and after calling foreign functions.
1451
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +00001452- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
1453 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
1454
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00001455- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
1456 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
1457
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +00001458- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001459
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00001460- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
1461 now honored in unittest debug methods.
1462
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +00001463Documentation
1464-------------
1465
1466- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
1467 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
1468
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00001469Misc
1470----
1471
1472- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
1473
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001474
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +00001475What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
1476=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001477
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +00001478*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001479
1480Core and Builtins
1481-----------------
1482
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +00001483- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
1484 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
1485 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
1486 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
1487 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
1488 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
1489 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
1490
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00001491- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +00001492 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
1493 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
1494 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
1495 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00001496
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +00001497- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
1498 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
1499 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
1500 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
1501 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
1502 in sets or dicts.
1503
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +00001504- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
1505 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
1506 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
1507
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +00001508- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
1509 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
1510
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001511- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
1512 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +00001513
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001514- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
1515 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +00001516
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00001517- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +00001518 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
1519
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00001520C-API
1521-----
1522
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001523- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
1524 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
1525 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00001526 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
1527
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001528Library
1529-------
1530
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +00001531- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
1532 reported as a skip rather than an error.
1533
1534- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
1535 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
1536 reports.
1537
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +00001538- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
1539
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +00001540- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
1541 accepted by the codecs module.
1542
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +00001543- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
1544
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +00001545- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
1546 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
1547
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +00001548- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
1549 mistake.
1550
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +00001551- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
1552 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
1553
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +00001554- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
1555 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
1556
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +00001557- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
1558 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +00001559
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +00001560- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
1561
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +00001562- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
1563
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +00001564- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
1565 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
1566 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +00001567
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00001568- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001569 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00001570
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +00001571- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
1572 of files without one.
1573
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001574- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +00001575 comparing to a non-mapping.
1576
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001577- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +00001578
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001579- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
1580 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +00001581
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +00001582- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
1583
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001584- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
1585 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
1586 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +00001587
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00001588Extension Modules
1589-----------------
1590
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +00001591- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
1592 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
1593 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
1594
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +00001595- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
1596 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
1597
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00001598- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001599 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001600
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00001601Tests
1602-----
1603
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +00001604- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
1605 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
1606
1607- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +00001608 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
1609
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +00001610- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
1611
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001612- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
1613 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
1614 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00001615
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +00001616Build
1617-----
1618
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +00001619- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
1620 releases.
1621
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00001622- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +00001623 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00001624
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +00001625Tools/Demos
1626-----------
1627
1628- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
1629
1630
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00001631What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
1632================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001633
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +00001634*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001635
1636Core and Builtins
1637-----------------
1638
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001639- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +00001640
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001641- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
1642 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
1643 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
1644 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
1645 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +00001646
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001647- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
1648 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +00001649
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +00001650- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
1651
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00001652- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001653 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00001654 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
1655 Charles-François Natali.
1656
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +00001657- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
1658 passed to bytearray.
1659
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001660- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +00001661
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001662- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +00001663
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001664- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
1665 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
1666 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +00001667
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001668Library
1669-------
1670
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001671- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
1672 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +00001673
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001674- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
1675 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +00001676
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001677- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00001678
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001679- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
1680 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
1681 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
1682 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00001683
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001684- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
1685 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +00001686
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +00001687- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
1688
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001689- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
1690 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +00001691
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001692- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
1693 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +00001694
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001695- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
1696 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
1697 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
1698 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
1699 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +00001700
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00001701- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001702 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
1703 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00001704
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +00001705- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
1706
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00001707- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
1708 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
1709
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001710- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
1711 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +00001712
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001713- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
1714 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +00001715
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001716- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +00001717 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
1718 "Include".
1719
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001720- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
1721 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +00001722
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001723- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
1724 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +00001725
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001726- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
1727 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +00001728
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001729- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
1730 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
1731 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +00001732
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001733- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
1734 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +00001735
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001736- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +00001737
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001738- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
1739 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +00001740
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001741- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +00001742
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001743- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
1744 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
1745 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
1746 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +00001747
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +00001748- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
1749 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
1750
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001751- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
1752 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +00001753
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +00001754- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
1755
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001756- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
1757 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +00001758
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001759- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
1760 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +00001761
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001762- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
1763 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
1764 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +00001765
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001766- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
1767 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00001768 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
1769 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
1770
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001771- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
1772 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
1773 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +00001774
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +00001775- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
1776
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001777- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
1778 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +00001779
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001780- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +00001781
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001782- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
1783 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +00001784
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001785- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
1786 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +00001787
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +00001788- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
1789
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +00001790- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
1791 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
1792
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001793- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +00001794 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
1795
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00001796- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001797 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
1798 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00001799
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00001800- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001801 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
1802 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00001803
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +00001804- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
1805
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001806- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
1807 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00001808
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00001809Extension Modules
1810-----------------
1811
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001812- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +00001813
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +00001814- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
1815
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00001816- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
1817
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001818- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
1819 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +00001820
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00001821Tests
1822-----
1823
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001824- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
1825 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
1826 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +00001827
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001828- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
1829 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +00001830
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +00001831- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
1832 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
1833
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001834- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
1835 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +00001836
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001837- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
1838 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00001839
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00001840Build
1841-----
1842
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001843- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +00001844 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
1845 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
1846 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
1847
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00001848- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
1849
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001850- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
1851 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +00001852
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001853- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +00001854
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +00001855Misc
1856----
1857
1858- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
1859
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001860
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001861What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
1862================================
1863
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +00001864*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001865
1866Core and Builtins
1867-----------------
1868
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +00001869- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
1870
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +00001871- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
1872 changed.
1873
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001874- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +00001875 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
1876 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
1877
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +00001878- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
1879
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001880- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +00001881
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +00001882- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
1883
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001884- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
1885 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
1886 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
1887 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
Antoine Pitrou01a196a2011-01-02 20:05:11 +00001888 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001889 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +00001890
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +00001891- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
1892 references.
1893
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001894- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
1895 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00001896
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00001897- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00001898
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00001899- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
1900 arguments to a function correct.
1901
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00001902- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
1903
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00001904- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001905 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
1906 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00001907 module.
1908
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00001909- Code objects now support weak references.
1910
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001911Library
1912-------
1913
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00001914- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
1915
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00001916- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001917 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
1918 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00001919
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00001920- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
1921
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001922- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
1923 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00001924
1925 >>> Decimal(1.1)
1926 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
1927
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00001928- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
1929
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001930- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
1931 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00001932
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001933- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
1934 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00001935
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001936- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
1937 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00001938
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001939- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
1940 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
1941 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
1942 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00001943
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001944- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
1945 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
1946 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
1947 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00001948
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00001949- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001950 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
1951 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
1952 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00001953
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001954- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
1955 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00001956
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00001957- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
1958 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001959 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00001960
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001961- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
1962 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
1963 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
1964 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00001965
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00001966- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
1967
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00001968- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
1969
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00001970- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
1971 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
1972
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00001973- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
1974
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00001975- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001976 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
1977 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00001978
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00001979- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
1980 deprecated.
1981
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001982- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
1983 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00001984
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001985- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
1986 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00001987
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001988- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
1989 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
1990 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00001991
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001992- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
1993 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00001994
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00001995- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
1996 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
1997 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00001998
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00001999- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
2000
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00002001- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
2002
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002003- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
2004 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
2005 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00002006
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00002007- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
2008 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
2009
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002010- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00002011
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002012- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
2013 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00002014
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002015- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
2016 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002017 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00002018
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00002019- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002020 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
2021 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
2022 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00002023
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002024- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00002025 cElementTree module is updated too.
2026
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00002027- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
2028
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002029- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00002030 classes.
2031
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002032- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
2033 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
2034 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
2035 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00002036
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00002037- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
2038 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
2039
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00002040- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
2041
2042- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
2043 during test runs.
2044
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00002045- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00002046 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
2047
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002048Extension Modules
2049-----------------
2050
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00002051- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
2052
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00002053- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
2054
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00002055- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002056 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
2057 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00002058
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00002059- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
2060
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00002061- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
2062
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00002063- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
2064 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
2065 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
2066 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
2067
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002068- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
2069 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
2070 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002071 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
2072 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
2073 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
2074 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002075
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002076- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
2077 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00002078
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00002079Tools/Demos
2080-----------
2081
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002082- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
2083 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
2084 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002085
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00002086- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
2087
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00002088Build
2089-----
2090
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002091- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
2092 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00002093
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002094- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
2095 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
2096 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00002097
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00002098- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
2099
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00002100- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
2101
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00002102- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
2103 assembly file.
2104
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00002105C-API
2106-----
2107
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00002108- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002109 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
2110 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00002111
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002112- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
2113 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
2114 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
2115 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00002116
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00002117Tests
2118-----
2119
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002120- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
2121 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00002122
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002123- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
2124
2125- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
2126
2127- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
2128
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00002129- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
2130
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00002131- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
2132
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00002133- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
2134 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
2135
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00002136- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
2137 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00002138
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002139- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
2140 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00002141
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00002142
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002143What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
2144=================================
2145
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00002146*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002147
2148Core and Builtins
2149-----------------
2150
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002151- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
2152 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00002153
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002154- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
2155 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00002156
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00002157- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002158 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00002159
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00002160- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002161 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
2162 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00002163
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002164- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
2165 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00002166
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002167- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00002168 Parser/myreadline.c.
2169
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00002170- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002171 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00002172
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002173- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
2174 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00002175
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002176Library
2177-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00002178
Senthil Kumaranc1d0ed22010-12-04 09:58:29 +00002179- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
2180 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
2181 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
2182
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00002183- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
2184 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002185
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00002186- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
2187
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002188- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00002189 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00002190
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002191- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00002192 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
2193
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002194- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
2195 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00002196
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00002197- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002198 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00002199
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00002200- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00002201
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002202- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
2203 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00002204
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002205- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00002206
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002207- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
2208 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00002209
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002210- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
2211 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00002212
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00002213- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
2214
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002215- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
2216 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
2217 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
2218 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00002219
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002220- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
2221 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002222
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00002223- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
2224 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
2225 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002226
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00002227- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00002228 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00002229
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002230- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00002231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002232- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00002233
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002234- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00002235
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002236- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
2237 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00002238
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00002239- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002240 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00002241
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002242- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00002243
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00002244- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
2245
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00002246Extension Modules
2247-----------------
2248
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002249- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00002250 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
2251
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00002252- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
2253
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002254- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00002255 handling.
2256
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00002257- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
2258 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002259
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002260- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00002261 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
2262 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
2263
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002264- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
2265 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00002266
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002267Tests
2268-----
2269
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002270- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
2271 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
2272 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00002273
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00002274- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
2275 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
2276
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002277- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
2278 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00002279
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002280- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00002281 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00002282
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002283- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00002284 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
2285
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002286- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
2287 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
2288 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
2289 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002290
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00002291Build
2292-----
2293
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00002294- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00002295
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002296
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002297What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
2298=================================
2299
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00002300*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002301
2302Core and Builtins
2303-----------------
2304
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00002305- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
2306 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002307 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
2308 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00002309
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00002310- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002311 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00002312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002313- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
2314 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00002315
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002316- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00002317
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002318- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
2319 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00002320
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002321- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
2322 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
2323 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
2324 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00002325
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002326- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
2327 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
2328 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
2329 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00002330
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00002331- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
2332 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
2333 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
2334
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002335- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
2336 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00002337
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002338 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
2339 strings,
2340 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
2341 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
2342 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
2343 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
2344
2345- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
2346 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00002347
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00002348- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
2349
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00002350- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
2351
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00002352- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
2353
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002354Library
2355-------
2356
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00002357- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
2358 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
2359
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00002360- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
2361 interpreter shutdown.
2362
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002363- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
2364 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
2365 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
2366 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00002367
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002368- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00002369
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002370- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00002371
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002372- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00002373
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00002374- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002375 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00002376 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
2377 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
2378
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00002379- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
2380
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00002381- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002382 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
2383 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00002384 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
2385
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002386- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
2387 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
2388 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
2389 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
2390 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
2391 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00002392
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00002393- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
2394
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002395- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
2396 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00002397
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002398- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
2399 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00002400
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002401- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
2402 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
2403 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
2404 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00002405
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002406- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00002407 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
2408 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
2409
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002410- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00002411 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
2412
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002413- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
2414 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00002415
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002416- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
2417 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00002418
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002419- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
2420 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00002421
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002422- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
2423 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00002424
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00002425- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002426 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
2427 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00002428
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00002429Extension Modules
2430-----------------
2431
2432- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
2433 (CVE_2009_3560).
2434
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00002435Build
2436-----
2437
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002438- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
2439 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
2440 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00002441
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00002442- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
2443
2444- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
2445 MacOSX.
2446
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00002447- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
2448 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
2449
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00002450Tools/Demos
2451-----------
2452
2453- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002454 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00002455 sandbox.
2456
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00002457Tests
2458-----
2459
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002460- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00002461 instead of a hard coded port.
2462
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00002463Documentation
2464-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00002465
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002466- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
2467 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00002468
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002469- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00002470 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
2471
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002472
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002473What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
2474=================================
2475
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00002476*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002477
2478Core and Builtins
2479-----------------
2480
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002481- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
2482 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00002483
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00002484- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
2485 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
2486
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00002487- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002488 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
2489 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
2490 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
2491 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
2492 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00002493
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00002494- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
2495 AttributeError.
2496
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002497- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
2498 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00002499
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002500- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00002501
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00002502- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
2503 used to drop the time part of the result.
2504
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002505- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
2506 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
2507 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
2508 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00002509
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002510- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
2511 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
2512 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00002513
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002514- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00002515 executables on OSX.
2516
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002517 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
2518 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
2519 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00002520
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002521- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
2522 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00002523
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00002524- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
2525
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002526- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
2527 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00002528
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00002529
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002530Library
2531-------
2532
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002533- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
2534 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
2535 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00002536
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002537- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
2538 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
2539 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00002540
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00002541- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002542 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
2543 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00002544 Xicluna.
2545
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002546- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
2547 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00002548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002549- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
2550 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00002551
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002552- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
2553 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
2554 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00002555
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002556- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00002557 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
2558
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002559- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
2560 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00002561
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002562- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00002563 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
2564
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002565- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
2566 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00002567
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002568- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
2569 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00002570
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002571- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
2572 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
2573 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00002574
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002575- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
2576 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00002577
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00002578- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
2579 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
2580 the same as passing no argument.
2581
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002582- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
2583 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00002584
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002585- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00002586
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002587- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00002588
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002589- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
2590 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00002591
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002592- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
2593 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002594
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002595- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
2596 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00002597
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00002598C-API
2599-----
2600
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002601- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
2602 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00002603
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002604- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
2605 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
2606 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
2607 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
2608 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
2609 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
2610 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00002611
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002612- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00002613
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00002614Build
2615-----
2616
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00002617- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
2618
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00002619- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002620 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00002621
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002622- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
2623 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
2624 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00002625
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00002626- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
2627 found.
2628
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00002629- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00002630
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002631- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
2632 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00002633
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00002634Tests
2635-----
2636
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002637- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00002638 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
2639
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002640- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00002641
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00002642- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
2643 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
2644
2645
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002646What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
2647================================
2648
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00002649*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002650
2651Core and Builtins
2652-----------------
2653
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002654- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
2655 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00002656
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002657- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
2658 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
2659 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00002660
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002661- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
2662 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00002663
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002664- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
2665 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
2666 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00002667
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002668- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00002669
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002670- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00002671
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002672- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
2673 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00002674
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002675- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
2676 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
2677 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
2678 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
2679 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
2680 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00002681
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002682- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
2683 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
2684 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
2685 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
2686 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
2687 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
2688 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00002689
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002690 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
2691 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
2692 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
2693 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
2694 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
2695 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
2696 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
2697 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
2698 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
2699 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00002700
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002701- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
2702 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
2703 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
2704 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
2705 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
2706 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
2707 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
2708 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00002709
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00002710- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
2711
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002712- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
2713 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00002714
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002715- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
2716 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00002717
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002718- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
2719 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00002720
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00002721- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
2722
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002723- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
2724 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
2725 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00002726
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002727- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
2728 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00002729
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002730- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
2731 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002732
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002733- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
2734 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00002735
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002736- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
2737 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
2738 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00002739
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002740- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
2741 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00002742
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00002743- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
2744 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
2745 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
2746 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
2747
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00002748- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
2749 assignment.
2750
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002751- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
2752 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00002753
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002754- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
2755 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00002756
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002757- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
2758 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00002759
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00002760- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00002761 take keyword arguments.
2762
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002763- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
2764 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00002765
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002766- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
2767 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00002768
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00002769- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
2770
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00002771- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
2772 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
2773
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00002774- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
2775
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002776- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00002777
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002778- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00002779 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
2780
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002781- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
2782 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00002783
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002784- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00002785
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002786- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00002787
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002788- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00002789 occurred in the argument chain.
2790
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00002791- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
2792
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002793- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
2794 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00002795
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002796- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00002797 separator and end should be unicode also.
2798
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00002799- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
2800 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00002801
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002802- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
2803 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
2804 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00002805
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00002806- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
2807
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00002808- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
2809 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
2810
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00002811- Removed the ipaddr module.
2812
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00002813- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
2814 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
2815
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002816- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00002817
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00002818- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
2819 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
2820
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00002821- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
2822
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002823- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
2824 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00002825
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00002826- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002827 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00002828
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002829- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
2830 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00002831
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00002832- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002833 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00002834
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00002835- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
2836 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
2837
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002838- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
2839 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
2840 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00002841
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00002842- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
2843
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002844- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
2845 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00002846
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002847- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00002848
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00002849- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00002850
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002851 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
2852 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
2853 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00002854
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002855- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
2856 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
2857 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
2858 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
2859 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
2860 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
2861 complex.__format__ in the same way.
2862
2863- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
2864 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
2865 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00002866
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00002867- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002868 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00002869
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002870- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
2871 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00002872
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002873- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
2874 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00002875
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002876- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
2877 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00002878
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002879- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
2880 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00002881
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00002882- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
2883 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
2884
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00002885- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
2886
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002887- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
2888 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00002889
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002890- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
2891 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00002892
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002893- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
2894 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00002895
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002896- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
2897 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00002898
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002899- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
2900 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00002901
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002902- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00002903 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00002904
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002905- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
2906 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00002907
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00002908- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
2909
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002910- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00002911
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002912- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
2913 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00002914
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002915- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00002916
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00002917- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
2918 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
2919
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00002920- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
2921
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002922- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
2923 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00002924
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00002925- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002926 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
2927 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
2928 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00002929
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002930- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
2931 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
2932 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00002933
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002934- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
2935 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
2936 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
2937 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
2938 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00002939
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00002940- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
2941 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
2942
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002943- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
2944 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
2945 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00002946
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002947- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
2948 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00002949
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002950- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00002951 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
2952
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002953- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
2954 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00002955
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002956- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
2957 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00002958
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002959- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
2960 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00002961
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00002962- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
2963 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
2964
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002965- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
2966 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00002967
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00002968- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
2969
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00002970- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00002971 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
2972 zip(), and bytearray().
2973
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00002974- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
2975 functions.
2976
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00002977- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
2978 OSError.
2979
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00002980- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
2981
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002982- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
2983 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
2984 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00002985
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00002986- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
2987 __next__ method.
2988
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00002989- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
2990
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00002991- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
2992
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00002993- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
2994 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
2995 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00002996 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00002997 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
2998
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00002999- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
3000
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003001- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
3002 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
3003 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
3004 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
3005 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00003006
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003007- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00003008
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00003009- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
3010 file with `str' filename on Windows.
3011
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00003012- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
3013 did not get collected.
3014
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003015- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
3016 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00003017
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00003018- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
3019 directory on POSIX systems.
3020
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00003021- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
3022 systems.
3023
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00003024- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003025 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00003026
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00003027- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
3028 fail.
3029
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003030- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
3031 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
3032 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00003033
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00003034- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
3035
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003036- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
3037 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00003038
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003039- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
3040 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00003041
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003042- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00003043
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003044- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
3045 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
3046 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
3047 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00003048
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00003049- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
3050 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
3051 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
3052
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003053- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
3054 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00003055
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00003056- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
3057 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
3058
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003059- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
3060 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
3061 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
3062 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00003063
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00003064- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
3065 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
3066
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003067- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00003068
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00003069- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
3070
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00003071- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
3072
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00003073- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
3074 exec statement.
3075
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003076- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
3077 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00003078
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00003079- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
3080 __future__ import didn't work.
3081
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00003082- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00003083 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00003084
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003085- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
3086 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
3087 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
3088 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00003089
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003090- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
3091 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
3092 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
3093 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00003094
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003095- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
3096 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00003097
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00003098- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
3099
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00003100- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
3101
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00003102- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
3103
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003104- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
3105 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00003106
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00003107- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
3108 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00003109
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00003110- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
3111 returned them on 64bit platforms.
3112
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00003113- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
3114 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
3115 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
3116 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
3117
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00003118- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
3119 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
3120
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003121- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
3122 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
3123 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
3124 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00003125
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003126Library
3127-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00003128
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00003129- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00003130
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00003131- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
3132
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003133- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
3134 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00003135
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003136- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00003137 TLS with authentication credentials.
3138
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003139- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
3140 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00003141
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00003142- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
3143 msvc9compiler.
3144
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003145- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
3146 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
3147 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00003148
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00003149- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
3150 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
3151 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
3152
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003153- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
3154 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00003155
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00003156- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
3157
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00003158- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003159 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00003160 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
3161
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003162- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
3163 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
3164 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00003165
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00003166- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
3167
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003168- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
3169 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00003170
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00003171- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
3172 raises ReadError on empty files.
3173
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003174- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00003175
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00003176- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
3177 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00003178
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003179- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
3180 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00003181
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003182- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
3183 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00003184
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003185- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00003186
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003187- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
3188 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00003189
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003190- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
3191 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00003192
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003193- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
3194 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
3195 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00003196 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
3197 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
3198
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003199- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
3200 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
3201 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00003202
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00003203- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003204 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00003205 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
3206
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003207- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
3208 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
3209 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00003210
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00003211- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
3212 which are part of a reference cycle.
3213
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003214- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
3215 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00003216
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003217- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00003218 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
3219 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
3220
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003221- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
3222 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
3223 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
3224 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00003225
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003226- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
3227 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
3228 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
3229 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00003230
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00003231- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
3232 header as required by RFC 1952.
3233
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00003234- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
3235 Distutils.
3236
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00003237- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
3238 an uppercase.
3239
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003240- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
3241 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00003242
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00003243- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
3244 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
3245
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00003246- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00003247 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
3248
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00003249- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
3250 protocol 2.
3251
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00003252- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
3253
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00003254- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
3255 larger than emax.
3256
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003257- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
3258 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00003259
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00003260- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
3261
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003262- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00003263
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00003264- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
3265
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003266- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00003267
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003268- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00003269
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00003270- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
3271 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003272
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003273- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
3274 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00003275
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003276- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
3277 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00003278
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003279- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00003280 Distutils.
3281
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003282- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00003283
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003284- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
3285 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00003286
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003287- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
3288 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00003289
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00003290- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
3291
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00003292- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
3293
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003294- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
3295 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00003296
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003297- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
3298 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00003299
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003300- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
3301 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00003302
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00003303- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
3304
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00003305- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
3306
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00003307- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003308 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
3309 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00003310
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003311- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00003312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003313- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
3314 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
3315 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00003316
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003317- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
3318 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00003319
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003320- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00003321
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003322- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
3323 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
3324 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
3325 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00003326
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00003327- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
3328 as documented.
3329
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00003330- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
3331 names in the webbrowser module.
3332
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00003333- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
3334
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00003335- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
3336 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
3337
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00003338- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
3339
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00003340- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
3341
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00003342- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
3343
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00003344- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
3345
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00003346- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
3347
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00003348- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
3349 ScrolledText.
3350
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00003351- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
3352
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003353- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
3354 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00003355
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00003356- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
3357 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
3358 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
3359 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
3360
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00003361- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
3362 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
3363
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00003364- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003365 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
3366 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00003367
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003368- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
3369 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
3370 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00003371
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00003372- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
3373 opening an empty or very small file.
3374
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00003375- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
3376 containing incomplete data.
3377
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003378- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
3379 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00003380
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00003381- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
3382
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003383- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
3384 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
3385 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00003386
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00003387- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00003388
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003389- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
3390 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
3391 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
3392 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00003393
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003394- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00003395
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00003396- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
3397
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00003398- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
3399 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
3400
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00003401- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00003402
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00003403- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00003404 attribute.
3405
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00003406- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
3407
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00003408- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
3409 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
3410
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00003411- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
3412
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003413- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00003414 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003415 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00003416
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00003417- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00003418 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
3419
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00003420- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
3421
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003422- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
3423 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00003424 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
3425
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003426- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00003427 argument.
3428
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003429- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
3430 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00003431
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003432- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00003433
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00003434- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
3435
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00003436- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
3437
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00003438- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
3439 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
3440
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003441- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
3442 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00003443
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00003444- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
3445 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
3446 ``io`` module.
3447
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00003448- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
3449
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00003450- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003451 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
3452
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00003453- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
3454
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003455- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
3456 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
3457 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00003458
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00003459- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
3460
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003461- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
3462 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00003463
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00003464- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
3465
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00003466- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
3467 whitespace.
3468
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003469- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
3470 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00003471
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00003472- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
3473 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
3474
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003475- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
3476 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00003477
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003478- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
3479 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00003480
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00003481- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
3482 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
3483 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
3484
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00003485- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
3486 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003487
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003488- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
3489 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
3490 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00003491
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00003492- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
3493 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
3494
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003495- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00003496 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
3497
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003498- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00003499
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003500- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
3501 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00003502
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003503- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00003504 subcommand.
3505
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00003506- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
3507 deepcopy()ing.
3508
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003509- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00003510
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00003511- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
3512
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003513- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00003514
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003515- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00003516 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
3517
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00003518- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
3519 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
3520
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00003521- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003522 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00003523
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003524- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
3525 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00003526
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00003527- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
3528 trying to print a traceback.
3529
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00003530- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
3531
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003532- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
3533 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00003534
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003535- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
3536 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
3537 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00003538 Cournapeau.
3539
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003540- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003541 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00003542
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003543- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
3544 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00003545
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00003546- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
3547
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00003548- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
3549 looking for files given by a relative filename.
3550
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003551- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00003552 extracting a file to the root directory.
3553
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003554- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00003555
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003556- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
3557 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
3558 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00003559
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00003560- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
3561 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
3562
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00003563- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
3564 Contributed by Google.
3565
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00003566- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
3567
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003568- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00003569
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00003570- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
3571
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003572- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
3573 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00003574 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
3575
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003576- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00003577 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
3578 initialized before.
3579
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00003580- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
3581 names which should not be exported.
3582
3583- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003584 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00003585
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00003586- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
3587
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003588- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
3589 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00003590
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00003591- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
3592
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00003593- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003594 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00003595
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003596- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
3597 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
3598 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00003599
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00003600- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
3601
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003602- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
3603
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003604- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
3605 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
3606 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
3607 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
3608 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00003609
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003610- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00003611
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003612- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
3613 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00003614
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003615- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00003616
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003617- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003618 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00003619
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003620- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
3621 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00003622
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003623- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
3624 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00003625
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003626- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
3627 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00003628
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003629- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
3630 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00003631
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003632- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00003633
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00003634- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00003635
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003636- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00003637
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003638- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00003639
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003640- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00003641 mailbox.MH.get_message().
3642
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003643- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
3644 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00003645
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003646- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
3647 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
3648 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00003649
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003650- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
3651 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003652
3653- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00003654 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003655
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003656- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
3657 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00003658 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
3659 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
3660
3661- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
3662 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003663
3664- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00003665 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003666
3667- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00003668 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00003669
3670- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
3671 called immediately before and after a test run.
3672
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003673- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00003674 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
3675 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
3676 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003677
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003678- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00003679
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00003680- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
3681 printing out values.
3682
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003683- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00003684
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00003685- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
3686 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
3687 threads.
3688
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00003689- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
3690
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00003691- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
3692
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003693- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00003694 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
3695 that it was failing to do localization.
3696
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003697- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00003698 Brandl.
3699
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003700- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
3701 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00003702
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00003703- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
3704 with the threading module.
3705
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003706- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00003707
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00003708- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
3709
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003710- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
3711 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00003712
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003713- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003714 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
3715 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00003716
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003717- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
3718 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00003719
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00003720- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
3721 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
3722 output compared to previous Python versions.
3723
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00003724- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
3725
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00003726- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003727 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
3728 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00003729
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003730- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
3731 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
3732 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
3733 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00003734
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003735- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
3736 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
3737 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
3738 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00003739
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00003740- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
3741 even if an exception occurs.
3742
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00003743- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
3744 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
3745
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003746- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
3747 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00003748
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003749- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
3750 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00003751
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003752- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00003753 character.
3754
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003755- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
3756 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00003757
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003758- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00003759
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00003760- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003761 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
3762 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00003763
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003764- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
3765 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
3766 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00003767
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00003768- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
3769
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003770- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00003771 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
3772
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00003773- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
3774
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00003775- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
3776
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003777- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00003778
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00003779- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
3780
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00003781- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
3782
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00003783- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
3784 ready received.
3785
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00003786- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
3787 import guess_extension`` was used.
3788
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003789- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
3790 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00003791
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00003792- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
3793 overrun.
3794
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00003795- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
3796 bdist_rpm command.
3797
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003798- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00003799
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003800- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00003801
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00003802- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
3803 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
3804
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003805- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
3806 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00003807
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00003808- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
3809 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003810
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003811- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
3812 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00003813
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00003814- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
3815
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003816- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
3817 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00003818
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003819- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00003820 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
3821
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00003822- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
3823 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
3824
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003825- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00003826
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003827- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
3828 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00003829
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00003830- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
3831 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
3832
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00003833- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
3834 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
3835
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00003836- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003837 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00003838 ctime of the files involved.
3839
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00003840- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
3841 deadlock.
3842
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003843- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
3844 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
3845 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00003846
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00003847- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
3848
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003849- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
3850 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003851
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003852- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
3853 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00003854
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003855- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
3856 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
3857 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00003858
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003859- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
3860 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
3861 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
3862 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00003863
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003864- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00003865 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
3866
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003867- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
3868 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00003869
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00003870- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
3871 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
3872
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003873- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00003874 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
3875
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00003876- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
3877
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003878- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
3879 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00003880
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003881- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
3882 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00003883
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00003884- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
3885
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003886- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00003887 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
3888
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003889- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
3890 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00003891
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003892- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
3893 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00003894
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00003895- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
3896
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003897- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00003898
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003899- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
3900 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00003901
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003902- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
3903 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00003904
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003905- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00003906 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
3907
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003908- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
3909 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00003910
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003911- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
3912 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00003913
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003914- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003915 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
3916 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00003917
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003918- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
3919 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
3920 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
3921 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00003922
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003923- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
3924 parameter was set.
3925
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00003926- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
3927 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00003928 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00003929
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00003930- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003931 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
3932 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00003933
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00003934- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
3935 in sharedctypes.py.
3936
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00003937- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
3938 __getattr__.
3939
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003940- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
3941 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00003942
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003943- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00003944 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
3945
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003946- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00003947
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00003948- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
3949
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00003950- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003951 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
3952 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00003953 Jacques Frechet.
3954
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00003955- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
3956
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003957- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00003958 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
3959
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00003960- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003961 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
3962 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00003963
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003964- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
3965 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00003966
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003967- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
3968 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00003969
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00003970- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
3971 the function is not a generator.
3972
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003973- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
3974 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00003975
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003976- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
3977 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00003978
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003979- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
3980 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00003981
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003982- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
3983 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00003984
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00003985- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
3986
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00003987- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
3988
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003989- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
3990 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00003991
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003992- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
3993 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00003994
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00003995- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
3996 Gabriel Genellina.
3997
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00003998- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
3999
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00004000- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
4001
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004002- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00004003
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004004- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
4005 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
4006 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00004007
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004008- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
4009 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004010 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
4011
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004012- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
4013 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
4014 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004015
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004016- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
4017 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
4018 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
4019 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
4020 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004021
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004022- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
4023 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004024
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00004025- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
4026 when given an unicode string.
4027
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00004028- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
4029
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004030- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
4031 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
4032 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00004033
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004034- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
4035 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00004036
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004037- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00004038
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004039- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00004040 statements.
4041
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00004042- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
4043 not a malformed option.
4044
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004045- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
4046 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00004047
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00004048- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
4049 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
4050 Content-Disposition headers.
4051
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00004052- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004053 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
4054 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
4055 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
4056 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00004057
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00004058- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
4059 exception.
4060
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004061- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
4062 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00004063
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00004064- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
4065
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00004066- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
4067
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00004068- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
4069 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
4070
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00004071- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
4072 and then remove it.
4073
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00004074- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
4075
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00004076- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
4077 debugging.
4078
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00004079- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
4080 inspect.getargvalues.
4081
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00004082- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
4083
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00004084- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
4085 to claiming it is Mature.
4086
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00004087- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
4088 when protocol 0 is used.
4089
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00004090- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
4091 to be consistent with Apple tools.
4092
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00004093- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004094 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00004095
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00004096- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
4097
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004098- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00004099 module.
4100
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004101- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
4102 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00004103
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004104- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00004105
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004106- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00004107
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00004108- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004109 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00004110
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00004111- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004112 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
4113 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00004114
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00004115- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
4116 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
4117
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004118- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
4119 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00004120
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00004121- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
4122 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
4123 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
4124
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00004125- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
4126
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00004127Tools/Demos
4128-----------
4129
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004130- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00004131
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004132- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00004133
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00004134Build
4135-----
4136
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004137- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
4138 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
4139 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00004140
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004141- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
4142 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
4143 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004144
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004145- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00004146
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00004147- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
4148
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004149- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004150 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00004151
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004152- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004153 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00004154
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004155- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
4156 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00004157
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00004158- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
4159
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00004160- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
4161
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004162- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
4163 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00004164
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00004165- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00004166 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00004167
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00004168- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
4169
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00004170- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
4171
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00004172- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
4173
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00004174- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
4175
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004176- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00004177
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00004178- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
4179
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00004180- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
4181
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00004182- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
4183
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00004184- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
4185
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00004186- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
4187
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00004188- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
4189
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00004190- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
4191
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004192- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00004193
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00004194- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
4195
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00004196Documentation
4197-------------
4198
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004199- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
4200 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00004201
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004202- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
4203 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00004204
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004205C-API
4206-----
4207
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00004208- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
4209
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004210- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
4211 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00004212
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004213- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
4214 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00004215
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004216- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
4217 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00004218
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004219- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
4220 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00004221
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00004222- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
4223 PyCode_Addr2Line().
4224
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00004225- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
4226 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
4227
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00004228- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
4229 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
4230
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00004231- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
4232
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004233- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
4234 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00004235
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00004236- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
4237
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004238- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
4239 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00004240
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004241- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
4242 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004243
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004244- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00004245 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004246
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00004247Extension Modules
4248-----------------
4249
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00004250- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
4251
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00004252- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
4253
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004254- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00004255
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00004256- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004257 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00004258
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004259- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
4260 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00004261
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004262- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
4263 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00004264
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00004265- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
4266 module.
4267
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00004268- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
4269
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00004270- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00004271 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00004272
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004273- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
4274 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
4275 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00004276
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004277- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
4278 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
4279 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00004280
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004281- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
4282 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
4283 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00004284
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004285 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
4286 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00004287
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004288 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
4289 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
4290 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
4291 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
4292 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
4293 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
4294 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00004295
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004296 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
4297 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
4298 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00004299
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00004300- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
4301
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004302- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
4303 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00004304
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00004305- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
4306 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00004307 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00004308
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00004309- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00004310
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00004311- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
4312
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00004313- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
4314
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00004315- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
4316
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00004317- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
4318
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00004319- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
4320 OpenBSD.
4321
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00004322- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
4323
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00004324- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
4325
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00004326- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
4327
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00004328Tests
4329-----
4330
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004331- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
4332 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
4333 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00004334
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004335- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
4336 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00004337
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004338- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
4339 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00004340
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00004341- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
4342
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00004343- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
4344 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
4345
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00004346- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004347 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
4348 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
4349 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00004350
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004351- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
4352 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00004353
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00004354- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
4355 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
4356
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00004357- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
4358 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
4359 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00004360
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00004361- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
4362
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00004363- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
4364 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
4365
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00004366- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
4367 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004368 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
4369 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00004370
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00004371- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
4372 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
4373
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004374- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
4375 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
4376 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
4377 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
4378 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00004379
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00004380- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
4381
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00004382- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
4383
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00004384- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
4385
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004386- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
4387 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
4388 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00004389
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00004390- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
4391
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00004392- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
4393 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
4394 incorrectly on __exit__.
4395
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00004396- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
4397
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00004398Misc
4399----
4400
4401- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
4402
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004403
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00004404What's New in Python 2.6 final
4405==============================
4406
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00004407*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00004408
4409Core and Builtins
4410-----------------
4411
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00004412- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
4413 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
4414
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00004415- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
4416 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
4417
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00004418- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
4419
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00004420Library
4421-------
4422
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00004423- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
4424 true singleton object.
4425
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00004426- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
4427 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
4428 into a float.
4429
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00004430- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
4431
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00004432- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
4433 sizes.
4434
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00004435- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
4436
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00004437- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
4438 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
4439
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00004440Build
4441-----
4442
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00004443- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
4444 installer.
4445
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00004446- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
4447
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00004448
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004449What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
4450=============================================
4451
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00004452*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004453
4454Core and Builtins
4455-----------------
4456
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00004457Extension Modules
4458-----------------
4459
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00004460- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
4461 segfault as a result.
4462
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00004463- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
4464 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004465
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00004466Tools/Demos
4467-----------
4468
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00004469- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00004470 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
4471 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
4472 are caught and silenced.
4473
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00004474Build
4475-----
4476
4477- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
4478 C runtime in the Windows installer.
4479
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004480
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004481What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
4482=============================================
4483
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00004484*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004485
4486Core and Builtins
4487-----------------
4488
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00004489- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
4490
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00004491- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
4492 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
4493 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
4494 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
4495 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
4496 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
4497 64bit values.
4498
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00004499- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
4500 error.
4501
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00004502- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
4503 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
4504 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
4505 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
4506
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00004507- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
4508 a unicode argument.
4509
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00004510- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
4511
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00004512- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00004513 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00004514 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
4515
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00004516- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00004517 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
4518 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
4519 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
4520 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
4521 type object.
4522
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00004523- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
4524
4525- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
4526
4527- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
4528
4529- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
4530
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00004531- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
4532 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
4533
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00004534- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
4535 ``__delslice__``.
4536
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00004537- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
4538 library targets in the Makefile.
4539
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00004540- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
4541 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
4542 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
4543
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00004544C-API
4545-----
4546
4547- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
4548
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004549Library
4550-------
4551
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00004552- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
4553 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
4554
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00004555- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
4556
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00004557- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
4558
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00004559- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
4560 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
4561 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
4562
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00004563- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
4564
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00004565- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00004566 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
4567
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00004568- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
4569
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00004570- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
4571
4572- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00004573
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00004574- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
4575 its symbolic link.
4576
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00004577- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
4578
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004579- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00004580 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
4581 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
4582
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00004583- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
4584 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
4585
4586- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00004587
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00004588- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
4589 path to the Python binary.
4590
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004591- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00004592 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
4593 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
4594 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
4595
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00004596- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
4597
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00004598- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
4599
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00004600- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
4601
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00004602- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
4603
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00004604- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
4605 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00004606
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00004607- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
4608 non-integer floating point number.
4609
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00004610- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00004611 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
4612
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00004613Extension Modules
4614-----------------
4615
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00004616- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
4617 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
4618
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00004619- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
4620 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
4621 without limit.
4622
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00004623- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
4624 exploitation of poor argument checking.
4625
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00004626- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
4627
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00004628- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
4629 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
4630
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00004631- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
4632 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
4633 threads/processes.
4634
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00004635Tests
4636-----
4637
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00004638- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
4639 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
4640 that expected warning messages are being reported.
4641
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00004642- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
4643
4644- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00004645
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00004646Build
4647-----
4648
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00004649- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
4650
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00004651- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
4652 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
4653
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00004654- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
4655
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00004656- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00004657 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00004658
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004659
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004660What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
4661================================
4662
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00004663*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004664
4665Core and Builtins
4666-----------------
4667
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00004668- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
4669 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
4670 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
4671 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
4672 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
4673 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
4674 default.
4675
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00004676- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
4677 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
4678
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00004679- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
4680 value again.
4681
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00004682- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
4683 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
4684 and introducing s*.
4685
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00004686- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
4687 object was stored in the freelist.
4688
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00004689- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
4690 ValueError consistently across platforms.
4691
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00004692- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
4693 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
4694 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
4695
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00004696- Apply security patches from Apple.
4697
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00004698- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
4699 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
4700
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00004701- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
4702 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
4703
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00004704- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
4705 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
4706 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
4707
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00004708- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
4709 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
4710 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
4711 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
4712 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
4713 failed have been fixed.
4714
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004715Library
4716-------
4717
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00004718- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
4719
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00004720- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
4721 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
4722
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00004723- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
4724 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
4725 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
4726
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00004727- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
4728 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
4729 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
4730 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
4731 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
4732 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
4733
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00004734- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
4735 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
4736
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00004737- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
4738
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00004739- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
4740
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00004741- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
4742
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00004743- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
4744 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
4745
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00004746- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00004747 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
4748
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004749- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00004750 in a redirect.
4751
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00004752- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00004753 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00004754
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00004755- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
4756 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
4757
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00004758- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
4759 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
4760 regular expression.
4761
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00004762- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
4763 thread-safe.
4764
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00004765- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
4766 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
4767 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
4768
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00004769- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
4770
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00004771- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
4772 menu entries were not deleted.
4773
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00004774- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
4775 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
4776
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00004777- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
4778 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
4779
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00004780- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
4781 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
4782 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
4783
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00004784- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
4785 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
4786 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
4787
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00004788- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
4789 the reload() built-in has been removed.
4790
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00004791- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00004792 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00004793 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
4794 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
4795 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
4796 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
4797 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00004798
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00004799- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
4800 raised an AttributeError.
4801
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00004802- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00004803 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
4804 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00004805
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00004806- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
4807 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
4808
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004809- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00004810
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004811- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00004812 on a closed shelf.
4813
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00004814- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
4815
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004816- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
4817
4818- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
4819 invalid arguments.
4820
4821- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
4822 with None arguments.
4823
4824- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
4825 configuration files.
4826
4827- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
4828
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00004829- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
4830 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
4831 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
4832
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00004833- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
4834 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
4835 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
4836
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00004837Build
4838-----
4839
4840- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
4841
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00004842Documentation
4843-------------
4844
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00004845- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
4846 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
4847
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00004848- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
4849 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
4850 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
4851 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
4852
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004853
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00004854What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
4855================================
4856
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004857*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
4858
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00004859Core and Builtins
4860-----------------
4861
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00004862- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
4863 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
4864 an integer using operator.index().
4865
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00004866- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
4867 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
4868
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00004869- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
4870 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
4871
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00004872- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
4873 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
4874 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
4875
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00004876- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
4877 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
4878 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
4879 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
4880 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
4881 level.
4882
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00004883- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
4884 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
4885 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
4886 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
4887 all imports from that module to fail.
4888
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00004889- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
4890 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
4891 new-style classes.
4892
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00004893- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
4894 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
4895 another file in sys.stdout.
4896
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00004897- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
4898 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
4899 another thread's dictionary.
4900
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00004901- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
4902 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
4903 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
4904 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
4905 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
4906 10, -1).
4907
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00004908- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
4909 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
4910 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00004911
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00004912- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
4913 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
4914 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00004915
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00004916Library
4917-------
4918
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00004919- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
4920 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
4921 error when they failed.
4922
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00004923- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
4924
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00004925- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
4926
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00004927- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
4928
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00004929- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
4930
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00004931- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
4932 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
4933
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00004934- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00004935
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00004936- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
4937 a valid dlerror() message.
4938
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00004939- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
4940 incomplete structure was created.
4941
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00004942- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
4943
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00004944- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
4945
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004946- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00004947
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00004948- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
4949 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004950 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00004951 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
4952 merged into trunk.
4953
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00004954- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
4955
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00004956- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
4957
4958- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
4959
4960- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
4961 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00004962 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00004963
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00004964- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004965 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00004966
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00004967- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
4968 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
4969
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00004970- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
4971 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
4972
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00004973- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
4974 interrupted by a signal.
4975
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004976- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00004977 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
4978 Prevents a deadlock.
4979
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00004980- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
4981 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
4982 default https port (443).
4983
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00004984- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
4985 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
4986 if the new process uses the threading module.
4987
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00004988Tests
4989-----
4990
4991- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
4992 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
4993 have been added to test_warnings.
4994
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00004995Build
4996-----
4997
4998- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
4999
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005000
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00005001Documentation
5002-------------
5003
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00005004- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00005005 Python 3.0.
5006
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00005007- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
5008
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00005009- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
5010 Python 3.0.
5011
5012- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
5013 Python 3.0.
5014
5015
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005016What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
5017================================
5018
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00005019*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005020
5021Core and Builtins
5022-----------------
5023
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00005024- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
5025 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
5026 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
5027 bus error.
5028
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00005029- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
5030 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
5031
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00005032- Add future_builtins.ascii().
5033
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00005034- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00005035 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00005036
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00005037- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
5038
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00005039- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
5040
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00005041- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
5042
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00005043- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
5044
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005045- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
5046 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
5047 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
5048 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00005049
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00005050- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
5051
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005052- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
5053 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00005054
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005055- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
5056 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00005057
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005058- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
5059 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
5060 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00005061
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00005062- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
5063 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
5064 can't be triggered from Python code.
5065
5066
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005067Extension Modules
5068-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00005069- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005070
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00005071- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
5072
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00005073- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00005074
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00005075- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
5076 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
5077
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00005078- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
5079 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
5080
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00005081- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
5082 weakref.proxy.
5083
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005084- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
5085 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00005086
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00005087- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00005088
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00005089- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00005090 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
5091 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00005092
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005093- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
5094 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
5095 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00005096
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00005097- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
5098 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
5099 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
5100
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005101- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00005102
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00005103- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00005104
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005105Library
5106-------
5107
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00005108- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
5109 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
5110
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00005111- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
5112
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00005113- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
5114 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
5115 sense).
5116
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00005117- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
5118
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00005119- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
5120 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
5121 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
5122 the patch.
5123
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005124- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
5125 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
5126 the patch).
5127
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00005128- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
5129 os.uname exists.
5130
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00005131- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
5132
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00005133- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
5134
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00005135- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
5136 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
5137 pointer-like object.
5138
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00005139- Added the ast module.
5140
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005141- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00005142
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00005143- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
5144 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
5145
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00005146- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
5147 to errno.
5148
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005149- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00005150
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005151- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00005152 msilib.Record objects.
5153
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00005154- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
5155 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
5156
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00005157- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
5158 in Python 3.0.
5159
5160- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
5161 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00005162
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00005163- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
5164 False boolean value now.
5165
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00005166- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
5167 transfers.
5168
5169- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
5170 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00005171
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00005172- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
5173 when the TarFile is closed.
5174
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00005175- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
5176 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
5177 an exception.
5178
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00005179- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
5180 otherwise be produced.
5181
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00005182- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
5183 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
5184
5185- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
5186 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
5187
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00005188- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
5189 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
5190 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
5191
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00005192- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
5193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005194- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00005195 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
5196 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
5197 'm' or 'c'.
5198
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00005199- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005201- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
5202 removal in Python 3.0.
5203
5204- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5205 3.0.
5206
5207- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5208 3.0.
5209
5210- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5211 3.0.
5212
5213- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00005214 Python 3.0.
5215
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00005216- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
5217 Python 3.0.
5218
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005219- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5220 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00005221
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005222- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5223 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00005224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005225- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5226 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00005227
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005228- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5229 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00005230
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005231- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00005232 Python 3.0.
5233
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005234- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5235 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00005236
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005237- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5238 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00005239
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005240- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5241 3.0.
5242
5243- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
5244 removal in Python 3.0.
5245
5246- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5247 3.0.
5248
5249- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5250 3.0.
5251
5252- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
5253 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00005254
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005255- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
5256 removal in Python 3.0.
5257
5258- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00005259 Python 3.0.
5260
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005261- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5262 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00005263
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00005264- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
5265 Python 3.0.
5266
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00005267- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
5268 Python 3.0.
5269
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005270- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00005271
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00005272- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5273
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00005274- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5275
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00005276- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
5277
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00005278- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5279
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005280- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
5281 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
5282 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00005283
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005284- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
5285 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00005286
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00005287- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5288
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005289- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
5290 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00005291
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00005292- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5293
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00005294- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5295
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00005296- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5297
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00005298- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5299
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00005300- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5301
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005302- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
5303 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00005304
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00005305- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5306
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00005307- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5308
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00005309- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
5310 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
5311 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
5312 OverflowError.
5313
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00005314- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5315
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005316- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
5317 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00005318
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00005319- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5320
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00005321- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5322
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00005323- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5324
5325- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00005326
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005327- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5328
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00005329- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
5330
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00005331- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
5332
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00005333- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00005334
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005335- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
5336 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00005337
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005338- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00005339 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
5340 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
5341 of Python.
5342
5343- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
5344 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
5345
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00005346- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
5347 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00005348
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005349Build
5350-----
5351
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00005352- 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 +00005353
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00005354- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
5355
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00005356- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
5357
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00005358- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
5359 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005360 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00005361
5362 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
5363
5364 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
5365
5366 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
5367
5368 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
5369
5370 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
5371
5372 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
5373
5374
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00005375C API
5376-----
5377
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00005378- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
5379
5380- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00005381
5382- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
5383 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
5384 PyString names.
5385
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00005386
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005387What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00005388=================================
5389
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00005390*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00005391
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00005392Core and builtins
5393-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00005394
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00005395- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
5396
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005397- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
5398 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00005399
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005400- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
5401 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00005402
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005403- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00005404
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00005405Extension Modules
5406-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005408- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
5409 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00005410
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00005411- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
5412
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005413- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
5414 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00005415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005416- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
5417 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00005418
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005419- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
5420 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00005421
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005422- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
5423 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
5424 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
5425 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
5426 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
5427 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
5428 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
5429 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00005430
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005431Library
5432-------
5433
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00005434- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5435
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005436- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
5437 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00005438
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00005439- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
5440
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005441- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
5442 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00005443
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00005444- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
5445 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
5446 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
5447
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00005448- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005449 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00005450
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00005451- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00005452 reference to themselves.
5453
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00005454- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
5455 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
5456 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00005457
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00005458- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
5459 1900-01-01.
5460
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00005461- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
5462 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
5463
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00005464- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
5465 now implemented in C for better performance.
5466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005467- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
5468 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
5469 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00005470
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005471- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00005472 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
5473 build documentation for more information.
5474
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00005475- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
5476 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
5477 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
5478 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
5479
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00005480- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
5481 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
5482 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
5483
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005484- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
5485 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
5486 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
5487 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00005488
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005489Tests
5490-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00005491
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005492- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
5493 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
5494 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
5495 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
5496 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
5497 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
5498 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
5499 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
5500 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
5501 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
5502 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
5503 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
5504 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
5505 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
5506 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
5507 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
5508 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
5509 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
5510 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
5511 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
5512
5513 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
5514 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
5515 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
5516 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
5517 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
5518 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
5519 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
5520 access to the underlying socket used.
5521
5522 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
5523 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
5524 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00005525
5526 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005527 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00005528 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
5529 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
5530
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005531 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
5532 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005533
5534Build
5535-----
5536
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00005537- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
5538
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00005539- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
5540 gcc is used as compiler.
5541
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00005542- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005543 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00005544
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005545C API
5546-----
5547
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005548- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
5549 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
5550 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
5551 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00005552
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00005553- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00005554
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005555
5556What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
5557=================================
5558
5559*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
5560
5561Core and builtins
5562-----------------
5563
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005564- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
5565 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
5566 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00005567
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00005568- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
5569 cannot be executed.
5570
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00005571- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
5572 reference on the outer class name.
5573
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00005574- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005575 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00005576
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005577- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
5578 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00005579
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00005580- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00005581
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00005582- Added backport of bytearray type.
5583
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00005584- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
5585
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00005586- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005587 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
5588 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
5589 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
5590 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
5591 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00005592
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00005593- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
5594
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005595- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
5596 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00005597
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00005598- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00005599
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00005600- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
5601
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005602- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
5603 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00005604
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005605- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
5606 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00005607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005608- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00005609 exception instances.
5610
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00005611- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005612 doesn't derive from BaseException.
5613
5614- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
5615 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00005616
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00005617- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
5618 memory usage in some circumstances.
5619
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005620- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
5621 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
5622 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00005623
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00005624- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
5625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005626- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00005627 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
5628 longer passed.
5629
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00005630- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
5631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005632- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
5633 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
5634 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00005635
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005636- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
5637 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00005638
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00005639- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
5640
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00005641Extension Modules
5642-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00005643
5644- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
5645
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00005646Library
5647-------
5648
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005649- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
5650 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005651
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005652- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
5653 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
5654 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005655
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005656- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
5657 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005658
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005659- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
5660 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
5661 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00005662
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005663- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
5664 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00005665
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00005666- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
5667
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00005668- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
5669 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
5670 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
5671
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00005672- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
5673
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00005674- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
5675 advertised in the docs.
5676
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005677- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00005678
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005679- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00005680
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005681- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
5682 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00005683
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00005684- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
5685 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
5686
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005687- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
5688 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00005689 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
5690 information as well.
5691
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005692- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
5693 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00005694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005695- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
5696 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00005697
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005698- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
5699 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
5700 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00005701
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00005702- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
5703 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
5704 strftime.
5705
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00005706- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005707 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
5708 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00005709
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00005710- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
5711 correctly under win32
5712
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005713- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00005714
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00005715- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005716 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
5717 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
5718 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00005719
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00005720- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
5721 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
5722
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005723- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
5724 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00005725
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005726- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
5727 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
5728 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00005729
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005730- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00005731 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
5732
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00005733- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
5734 from 't' to '?'.
5735
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00005736- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
5737 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005738 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
5739 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
5740 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00005741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005742- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
5743 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00005744
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00005745Tests
5746-----
5747
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005748- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
5749 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00005750
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00005751- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
5752
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00005753- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
5754
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00005755- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
5756
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00005757- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
5758
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005759- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
5760 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00005761
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00005762- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
5763
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005764- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00005765
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005766- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
5767 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00005768
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00005769- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
5770
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00005771- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
5772
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00005773- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
5774 permission to create files in the root directory.
5775
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00005776Build
5777-----
5778
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00005779- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
5780
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005781- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
5782 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00005783
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00005784- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00005785
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00005786C API
5787-----
5788
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005789- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005790 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
5791
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00005792
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005793What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
5794=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005795
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00005796*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005797
5798Core and builtins
5799-----------------
5800
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00005801- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00005802 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00005803
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00005804- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
5805
5806- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00005807
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005808- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005809 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00005810
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00005811- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
5812 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
5813 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
5814 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
5815 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
5816 module is:
5817 from future_builtins import hex, oct
5818
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00005819- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
5820 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
5821 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
5822 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
5823 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
5824 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
5825
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00005826- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
5827 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
5828 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
5829 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
5830 PyObject_Format().
5831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005832- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
5833 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
5834 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00005835
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005836- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005837 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
5838 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00005839
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005840- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
5841 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00005842
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005843- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
5844 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
5845 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00005846
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005847- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
5848 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
5849 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00005850
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00005851- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
5852 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
5853
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005854- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005855 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00005856
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005857- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
5858 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00005859 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
5860
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005861- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
5862 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
5863 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00005864
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005865- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
5866 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00005867
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005868- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
5869 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00005870
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005871- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
5872 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00005873
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005874- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
5875 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00005876
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005877- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
5878 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
5879 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00005880
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005881- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
5882 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
5883 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
5884 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00005885
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00005886- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
5887 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
5888 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
5889
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00005890- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00005891 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
5892 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
5893
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005894- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00005895 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
5896 support.
5897
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00005898- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
5899 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
5900
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00005901- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
5902
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005903- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00005904 added.
5905
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00005906- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
5907 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
5908
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005909- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
5910 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00005911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005912- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
5913 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
5914 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00005915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005916- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
5917 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00005918
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00005919- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
5920 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00005921
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00005922- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
5923
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005924- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
5925 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
5926 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00005927
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005928- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
5929 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
5930 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00005931
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005932- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00005933
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005934- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
5935 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00005936
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00005937- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005938 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
5939 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00005940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005941- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
5942 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
5943 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
5944 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00005945
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005946- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00005947
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005948- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
5949 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00005950
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005951- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
5952 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00005953
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00005954- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00005955 SystemError.
5956
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00005957- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
5958 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
5959 __package__ attribute.
5960
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005961- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
5962 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
5963 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00005964
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00005965- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
5966
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005967- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00005968 attribute of an empty cell object.
5969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005970- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
5971 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00005972
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005973- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
5974 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
5975 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
5976 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00005977
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005978- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
5979 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
5980 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00005981
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00005982- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
5983
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00005984- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
5985
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00005986- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
5987
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005988- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005989 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
5990 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00005991
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005992- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
5993 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
5994 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
5995 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
5996 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
5997 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00005998
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005999- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
6000 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
6001 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
6002 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
6003 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00006004
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006005- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
6006 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
6007 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00006008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006009- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
6010 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00006011
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00006012- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006013 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
6014 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
6015 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
6016 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
6017 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00006018
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006019- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
6020 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00006021
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00006022- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
6023 with %G.
6024
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006025- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
6026 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00006027
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006028- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00006029
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006030- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00006031
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00006032- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006033 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
6034 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00006035
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00006036- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
6037 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
6038
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00006039- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
6040 calls.
6041
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00006042- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006043 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
6044 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00006045
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00006046- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
6047
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006048- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006049 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00006050
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006051- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00006052 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
6053
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00006054- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
6055
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00006056- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
6057 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
6058 remaining characters.
6059
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00006060- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
6061 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
6062
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00006063- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
6064
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00006065- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
6066 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
6067 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
6068 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
6069 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00006070 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
6071 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00006072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006073- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
6074 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
6075 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
6076 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
6077 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00006078
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006079- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
6080 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
6081 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00006082
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006083- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
6084 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00006085
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006086- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
6087 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
6088 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00006089
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006090- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
6091 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00006092
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00006093- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
6094
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00006095- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
6096 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
6097
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00006098- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006099 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
6100 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
6101 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00006102
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00006103- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
6104 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
6105
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006106- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
6107 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00006108
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006109- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
6110 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
6111 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00006112
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00006113- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006114 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
6115 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00006116
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00006117- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
6118 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006119 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
6120 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00006121
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006122- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
6123 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00006124
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006125- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
6126 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00006127
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00006128- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
6129 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
6130
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006131- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
6132 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
6133 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00006134
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006135- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
6136 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00006137
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006138- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
6139 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00006140
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006141- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
6142 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
6143 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00006144
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00006145- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
6146 frame's thread state.
6147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006148- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
6149 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00006150
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006151- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
6152 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00006153
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006154- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
6155 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00006156
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006157- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
6158 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00006159
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006160- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
6161 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00006162
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00006163- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
6164
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00006165- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
6166
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00006167- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
6168
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006169- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
6170 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00006171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006172- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00006173
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00006174- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
6175 again, no longer the posix error code.
6176
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00006177- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
6178 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
6179
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006180- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
6181 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00006182
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00006183- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
6184 embedded in the string to convert.
6185
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00006186- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
6187 recognized and rejected.
6188
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00006189- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
6190
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00006191- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
6192 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
6193 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00006194
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00006195- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
6196 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
6197
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00006198- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006199 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
6200 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00006201
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006202- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
6203 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
6204 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00006205
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00006206- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
6207
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00006208- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
6209
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00006210- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
6211
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006212- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
6213 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
6214 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00006215
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00006216- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
6217 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
6218 'exceptions'.
6219
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00006220- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
6221 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
6222
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00006223- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
6224 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
6225
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00006226- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
6227
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00006228- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
6229
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00006230- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
6231 head is the original string if sep was not found.
6232
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00006233- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006234 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
6235 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
6236 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00006237
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006238- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00006239
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006240- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
6241 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006242
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00006243- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
6244 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00006245
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006246- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00006247 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
6248 it actually exited.
6249
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006250
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006251Library
6252-------
6253
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006254- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00006255
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00006256- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
6257
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00006258- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
6259
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006260- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
6261 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00006262
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006263- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00006264
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006265- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
6266 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
6267 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00006268
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006269- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
6270 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00006271
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006272- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00006273 (ignore-case)
6274
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00006275- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
6276 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
6277 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
6278 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
6279
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006280- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
6281 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00006282
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006283- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
6284 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00006285
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00006286- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
6287 pickled.
6288
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00006289- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
6290 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
6291
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00006292- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
6293 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
6294 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
6295
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006296- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
6297 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00006298
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006299- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
6300 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
6301 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00006302
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006303- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
6304 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00006305
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006306- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
6307 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00006308
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006309- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
6310 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
6311 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
6312 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00006313
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006314- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
6315 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006316 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
6317
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00006318- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
6319
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006320- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
6321 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00006322
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006323- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00006324
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006325- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
6326 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006327
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006328- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
6329 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006330
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006331- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
6332 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006333
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006334- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
6335 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006336
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006337- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
6338 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
6339 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00006340
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006341- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
6342 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00006343
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006344- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
6345 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00006346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006347- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
6348 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00006349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006350- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
6351 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00006352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006353- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
6354 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00006355
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006356- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
6357 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00006358
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00006359- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
6360 with extended local headers.
6361
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006362- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
6363 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00006364
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006365- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00006366 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
6367 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
6368
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006369- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
6370 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00006371
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006372- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
6373 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00006374
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006375- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
6376 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00006377
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006378- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
6379 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00006380
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006381- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
6382 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00006383
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00006384- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006385 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00006386 Textbox.gather().
6387
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00006388- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
6389 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00006390 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
6391 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00006392
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00006393- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
6394 that array types do not live longer than needed.
6395
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00006396- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
6397 and when creating a recursive instance.
6398
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006399- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
6400 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
6401 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00006402
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00006403- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
6404 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
6405 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
6406
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006407- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
6408 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00006409
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006410- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00006411 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
6412
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006413- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00006414 good for long regular expression matches.
6415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006416- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
6417 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00006418
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00006419- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
6420 the current context.
6421
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00006422- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
6423 zipfile module.
6424
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00006425- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
6426
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006427- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
6428 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00006429
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00006430- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
6431
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00006432- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
6433
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006434- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
6435 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00006436
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00006437- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
6438
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006439- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
6440 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00006441
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006442- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
6443 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00006444
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00006445- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
6446
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00006447- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
6448 Tcl objects.
6449
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00006450- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
6451
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006452- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
6453 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
6454 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
6455 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00006456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006457- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
6458 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00006459
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006460- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
6461 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00006462
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006463- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
6464 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00006465
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006466- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
6467 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00006468
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00006469- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
6470 method used universal newlines.
6471
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00006472- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
6473 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
6474
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00006475- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
6476 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
6477
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00006478- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
6479 files are updated.
6480
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006481- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
6482 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00006483
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00006484- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
6485 configured with --with-system-ffi.
6486
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00006487- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00006488 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00006489
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00006490- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
6491
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006492- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
6493 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
6494 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00006495
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006496- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
6497 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00006498
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00006499- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00006500
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00006501- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
6502
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006503- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
6504 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00006505
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00006506- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
6507 to be orderable to properly represent them.
6508
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00006509- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
6510
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00006511- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
6512
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006513- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
6514 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
6515 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00006516
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00006517- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
6518 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
6519
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006520- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
6521 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00006522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006523- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
6524 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00006525
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00006526- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
6527
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00006528- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
6529
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00006530- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
6531 syllables.
6532
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006533- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
6534 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00006535
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00006536- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
6537
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00006538- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
6539 represent the result in a single character.
6540
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00006541- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
6542
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00006543- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
6544
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00006545- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
6546 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
6547 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
6548
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00006549- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
6550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006551- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
6552 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00006553
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006554- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
6555 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
6556 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00006557
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006558- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
6559 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
6560 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00006561
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00006562- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006563 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
6564 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00006565
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006566- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
6567 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00006568
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006569- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
6570 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00006571
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00006572- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6573
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00006574- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6575
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006576- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
6577 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
6578 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00006579
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00006580- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6581
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00006582- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6583
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00006584- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
6585 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
6586
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00006587- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
6588
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00006589- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
6590
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00006591- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
6592
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006593- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
6594 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00006595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006596- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
6597 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00006598
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00006599- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
6600 the directories).
6601
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00006602- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
6603 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
6604 injecting HTML into the error page.
6605
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006606- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
6607 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00006608
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006609- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
6610 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006611
6612- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
6613
6614- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
6615
6616- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
6617 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
6618 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
6619
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00006620- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
6621 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
6622 ".cpp" too.
6623
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00006624- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006625 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
6626 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
6627 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00006628
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006629- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
6630 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00006631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006632- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
6633 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00006634
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00006635- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
6636 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
6637 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
6638 closes patch #723312.
6639
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006640- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
6641 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00006642 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00006643
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00006644- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
6645
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00006646- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
6647 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
6648
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00006649- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
6650
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006651- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
6652 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00006653 directories.
6654
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00006655- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
6656 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
6657 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
6658 trying Mozilla variants.
6659
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00006660- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
6661
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00006662- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
6663 initialization failed.
6664
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00006665- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006666 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
6667 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00006668
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006669- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
6670 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
6671 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00006672
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006673- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
6674 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00006675 correctly now.
6676
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00006677- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
6678
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006679- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
6680 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00006681
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00006682- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
6683
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006684- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
6685 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
6686 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00006687
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006688- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
6689 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
6690 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
6691 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00006692
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006693- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
6694 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
6695 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00006696
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00006697- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
6698 whitespace while wrapping.
6699
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00006700- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006701 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
6702 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00006703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006704- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
6705 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
6706 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00006707
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00006708- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
6709 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
6710
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006711- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
6712 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00006713
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00006714- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
6715 concatenation in robotparser.
6716
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00006717- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006718 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
6719 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00006720
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00006721- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
6722 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
6723
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00006724- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
6725
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006726- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
6727 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
6728 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00006729
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006730- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
6731 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
6732 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00006733
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006734- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
6735 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00006736 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00006737
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00006738- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
6739 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
6740
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00006741- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
6742 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
6743
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00006744- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
6745 returned string up to the first NUL character.
6746
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00006747- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
6748
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00006749- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
6750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006751- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
6752 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
6753 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00006754
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00006755- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
6756
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006757- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
6758 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
6759 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
6760 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
6761 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
6762 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00006763
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006764- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
6765 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00006766
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00006767- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
6768 comprehensive test suite for the module.
6769
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00006770- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
6771 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
6772
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006773- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
6774 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
6775 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00006776
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006777- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00006778 in HTMLParser.
6779
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00006780- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
6781 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
6782
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00006783- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
6784
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00006785- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
6786
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00006787- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
6788
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00006789- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00006790
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00006791- Added itertools.izip_longest().
6792
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006793- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
6794 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00006795
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00006796- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
6797
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00006798- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
6799 doesn't exist.
6800
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00006801- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
6802
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00006803- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
6804
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006805- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00006806
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006807- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
6808 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00006809
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006810- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
6811 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00006812
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006813- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
6814 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00006815
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00006816- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006817 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00006818
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00006819- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
6820 iso8859_16.
6821
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006822- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
6823 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
6824 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
6825 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00006826
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006827- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
6828
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00006829- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
6830 directories.
6831
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00006832- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
6833
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006834- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
6835 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00006836
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006837- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006838 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006839
6840- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006841 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006842
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006843- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006844
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006845- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
6846 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00006847
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00006848- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
6849
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00006850- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
6851 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
6852 parameterless foreign function calls work.
6853
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00006854- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
6855
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00006856- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
6857 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
6858 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
6859
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00006860- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
6861 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
6862
6863- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
6864 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
6865
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006866- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
6867 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
6868 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00006869
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006870- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
6871 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00006872
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00006873- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
6874
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006875- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
6876 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00006877
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006878- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
6879 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00006880
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006881- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
6882 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00006883
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006884- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
6885 separated lists read from logging config files.
6886
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006887- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
6888 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
6889 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006890
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006891- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
6892 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00006893
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00006894- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
6895
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006896- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
6897 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00006898
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00006899- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
6900
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00006901- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
6902
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006903- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
6904 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00006905
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00006906- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
6907 regular files.
6908
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00006909- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
6910
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006911- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
6912 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00006913
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006914- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
6915 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00006916
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00006917- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
6918 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
6919
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00006920- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
6921 file name mangling.
6922
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006923- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
6924 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00006925
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00006926- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
6927
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006928- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00006929 HTTPConnection.request().
6930
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00006931- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
6932 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
6933 objects.
6934
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006935- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
6936 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
6937 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00006938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006939- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
6940 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
6941 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00006942
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00006943- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00006944
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00006945- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00006946
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00006947- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
6948
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00006949- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00006950 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00006951
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00006952- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
6953
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00006954- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
6955 GNU modes.
6956
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00006957- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006958 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00006959 opcode.
6960
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00006961- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
6962 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
6963 statement (bug #1586513).
6964
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00006965- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
6966 correctly.
6967
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00006968- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
6969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006970- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
6971 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00006972
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00006973- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
6974 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
6975 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
6976
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006977- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
6978 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
6979 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00006980
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006981- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
6982 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00006983
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00006984- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
6985
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00006986- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
6987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006988- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
6989 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00006990
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006991- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
6992 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00006993
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00006994- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
6995 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
6996
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00006997- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
6998 with a slash.
6999
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00007000- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
7001 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
7002
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00007003- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007004 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00007005
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00007006- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
7007 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
7008 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
7009
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007010- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
7011 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00007012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007013- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
7014 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00007015
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007016- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
7017 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00007018
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00007019- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
7020
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007021- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00007022 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007023
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007024- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
7025 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00007026
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007027- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
7028 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007029
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00007030- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
7031
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007032- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
7033 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00007034
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007035- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
7036 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
7037 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00007038
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007039- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
7040 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
7041 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00007042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007043- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
7044 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
7045 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
7046 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00007047
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007048- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00007049 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
7050 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007051 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
7052 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
7053 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00007054
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007055- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
7056 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00007057
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007058Extension Modules
7059-----------------
7060
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00007061- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00007062
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00007063- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
7064
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00007065- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
7066
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00007067- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00007068
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007069- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
7070 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00007071
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007072- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
7073 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00007074
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007075- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
7076 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00007077
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00007078- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
7079
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00007080- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
7081
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007082- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
7083 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00007084
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00007085- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
7086
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007087- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
7088 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00007089
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00007090- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
7091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007092- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
7093 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00007094
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007095- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00007096 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
7097 parameter.
7098
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007099- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
7100 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
7101 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
7102 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00007103
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007104- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
7105 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00007106
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007107- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
7108 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00007109
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007110- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
7111 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
7112 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00007113
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007114- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
7115 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00007116
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00007117- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
7118
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00007119- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
7120
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007121- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
7122 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
7123 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00007124
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007125- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
7126 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00007127
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00007128- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
7129
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00007130- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
7131
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007132- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
7133 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
7134 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
7135 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00007136
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00007137- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
7138 get_completion_type to readline.
7139
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00007140- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
7141 structure.
7142
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00007143- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
7144
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00007145- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
7146
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00007147- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
7148 intended for RECNO databases.
7149
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00007150- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007151 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
7152 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
7153 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
7154 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
7155 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
7156 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00007157
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00007158- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
7159
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00007160- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
7161
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007162- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
7163 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
7164 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
7165 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
7166 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00007167
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00007168- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
7169 error in spite of a succesful compression.
7170
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00007171- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
7172 of Py_ssize_t.
7173
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00007174- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
7175 fractional times. With unittest.
7176
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007177- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
7178 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
7179 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00007180
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00007181- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
7182
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00007183- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
7184
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00007185- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
7186
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00007187- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
7188
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007189- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007190 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00007191
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007192- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
7193 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00007194
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007195- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
7196 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00007197
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00007198- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
7199 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
7200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007201- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
7202 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
7203 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00007204
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00007205- Speed up function calls into the math module.
7206
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00007207- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
7208 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
7209 does.
7210
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00007211- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
7212
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00007213- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
7214
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00007215- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
7216
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00007217- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
7218
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00007219- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
7220 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
7221
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00007222- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
7223 datetime's strftime function.
7224
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00007225- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
7226
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00007227- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
7228
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007229- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
7230 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00007231
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00007232- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
7233
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00007234- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007235 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
7236 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00007237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007238- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
7239 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00007240
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007241- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007242 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
7243 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007244 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
7245 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00007246 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007247 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007248
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00007249- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
7250 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
7251 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
7252 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
7253
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00007254- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
7255 were transposed.
7256
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00007257- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
7258 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00007259
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007260- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
7261 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
7262 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00007263
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00007264- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
7265
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00007266- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
7267
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00007268- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
7269
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00007270- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00007271
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00007272- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
7273 databases without a DBEnv.
7274
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00007275- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
7276
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007277Tests
7278-----
7279
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00007280- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00007281
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007282- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
7283 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00007284
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007285- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
7286 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
7287 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00007288
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00007289- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
7290 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00007291
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007292- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
7293 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00007294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007295- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
7296 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
7297 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00007298
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00007299- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
7300
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007301- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
7302 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
7303 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00007304
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00007305- Added some tests for modulefinder.
7306
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00007307- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
7308
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00007309- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
7310 number properly.
7311
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007312- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
7313 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007314
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007315Tools
7316-----
7317
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007318- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
7319 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
7320 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00007321 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00007322
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007323- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
7324 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
7325 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00007326
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00007327- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
7328 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
7329
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007330- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
7331 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007332
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007333- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
7334 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007335
7336- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007337 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
7338 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007339
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007340
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007341Documentation
7342-------------
7343
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00007344- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
7345 include new optional delay argument.
7346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007347- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
7348 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
7349 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007350
7351- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
7352 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
7353
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00007354- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
7355 Python tutorial.
7356
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00007357- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
7358
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007359- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
7360 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00007361
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00007362- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
7363 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
7364
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00007365- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
7366 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
7367
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00007368- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
7369
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00007370- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
7371 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
7372
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007373- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00007374 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
7375
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00007376- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
7377 docs.
7378
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00007379- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
7380
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00007381- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
7382 string pointed to by its parameter.
7383
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00007384- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
7385
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00007386- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007387 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
7388 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
7389 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00007390
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007391
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00007392Tools/Demos
7393-----------
7394
7395- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00007396
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00007397- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007398 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
7399 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00007400
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00007401- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
7402 file not to get reported properly.
7403
7404
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007405Build
7406-----
7407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007408- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
7409 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
7410 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00007411
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00007412- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
7413 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
7414
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00007415- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
7416
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007417- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007418
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007419- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
7420 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
7421 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
7422 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007423
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007424- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
7425 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007426
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00007427- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
7428
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00007429- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
7430 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
7431 without this option!
7432
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00007433- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
7434
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00007435- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007436 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
7437 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
7438 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00007439
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007440- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
7441 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00007442
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00007443- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
7444
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00007445- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
7446
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007447- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
7448 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00007449
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007450- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
7451 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00007452
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00007453- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
7454 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
7455 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
7456
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00007457- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
7458 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
7459
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00007460- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
7461
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00007462- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
7463
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007464- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
7465 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00007466
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007467- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00007468 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
7469
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007470- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
7471 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00007472
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00007473- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
7474
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007475- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00007476
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00007477- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
7478
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00007479- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
7480
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00007481- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007482
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007483- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
7484 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
7485 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00007486
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007487
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007488C API
7489-----
7490
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007491- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
7492 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
7493 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
7494 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00007495
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007496- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
7497 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
7498 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00007499
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007500- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00007501
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007502- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
7503 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
7504 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007505
7506- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
7507
7508- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
7509 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
7510
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007511- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
7512 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
7513 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
7514 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007516- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
7517 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007519- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
7520 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
7521 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007523- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
7524 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007525
7526- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
7527
7528- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
7529
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007530- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
7531
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007532- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
7533
7534- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
7535 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
7536
7537- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
7538 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
7539
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007540- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
7541 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
7542 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007543
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007544- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
7545 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007547- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
7548 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00007549
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007550
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00007551Windows
7552-------
7553
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007554- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
7555 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
7556 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
7557 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00007558
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007559- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
7560 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00007561
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00007562- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
7563
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00007564
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007565Mac
7566---
7567
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00007568- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7569
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00007570- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7571
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007572- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
7573 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
7574 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00007575
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00007576----
7577
7578**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**