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Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00001Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002+++++++++++
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Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00004What's New in Python 2.7.2?
5===========================
6
7*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
8
9Core and Builtins
10-----------------
11
Antoine Pitrou2ddaaff2011-03-09 12:54:00 +010012- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
13 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
14
Antoine Pitrou3013b162011-01-18 19:06:19 +000015- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
16 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
17
Benjamin Peterson9b911ca2011-01-12 15:49:47 +000018- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
19 class.
20
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +000021- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
22 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
23 Patch by Matt Bandy.
24
Raymond Hettinger57a86892011-01-25 21:43:29 +000025- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
26
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcac514c82011-01-03 00:50:57 +000027- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
28 can now handle dates after 2038.
29
R. David Murray64a1e7c2010-12-15 01:36:03 +000030- Issue #4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly
31 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
32 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
33
Benjamin Peterson07f54512010-12-11 04:25:57 +000034- Issue #10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
35
Mark Dickinsonecf8ec62010-12-04 12:30:41 +000036- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
37 float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be
38 0.0, not -0.0.
39
Eli Bendersky680e6eb2011-03-04 06:14:56 +000040- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
41 empty, instead of OverflowError.
42
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +000043Library
44-------
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +000045
Ronald Oussoren2ab59942011-03-16 09:47:15 -040046- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
47 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
48 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
49
Ronald Oussoren1aa999c2011-03-14 18:53:59 -040050- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
51 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
52
Mark Dickinson2c8c62e2011-03-12 11:05:32 +000053- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when
54 the context rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
55
Ned Deily9d4836e2011-03-09 02:31:55 -080056- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
57 initialization fails.
58
Antoine Pitroud6f3a3e2011-03-06 02:03:34 +010059- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
60 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
61 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
62
R. David Murray1a337902011-03-03 18:17:40 +000063- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
64 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
65 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
66
Giampaolo Rodolàd65224f2011-03-03 14:17:51 +000067- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
68 on accept(), send() and recv().
69
Antoine Pitroud3f6ea12011-02-26 23:35:27 +000070- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
71 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
72
Antoine Pitrou6439c002011-02-25 21:35:47 +000073- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
74 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
75
Georg Brandl28046022011-02-25 11:01:04 +000076- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
77 argparse.
78
Antoine Pitrouf4d2b3d2011-02-21 23:59:20 +000079- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
80 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
81 32-bit Windows.
82
Georg Brandl52f83952011-02-25 10:39:23 +000083- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
84 membership of non-weakrefable objects.
85
86- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
87
88- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
89
Barry Warsaw42bb7ca2011-02-14 20:04:00 +000090- Issue #11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix !=
91 --exec-prefix, which caused Python to not start.
92
R. David Murray008c0442011-02-11 23:03:13 +000093- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
94 a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
95
Antoine Pitrou820021e2011-01-31 21:47:45 +000096- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
97 Patch by Stan Mihai.
98
Ned Deily60651532011-01-31 00:52:49 +000099- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
100 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
101 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
102
Ned Deily2a6f4b32011-01-30 00:18:47 +0000103- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
104 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
105 64-/32-bit installer variant.
106
Ned Deilyefc527a2011-01-29 19:30:39 +0000107- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
108 commands.
109
Vinay Sajipcdb83882011-01-21 23:35:57 +0000110- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
111
Antoine Pitrou8a0eede2011-01-20 21:20:18 +0000112- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
113 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
114
Antoine Pitrou63a3f152011-01-19 15:27:24 +0000115- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
116 a symbol named FSTAT.
117
Ned Deily4a705502011-01-18 04:33:22 +0000118- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
119 Cocoa AquaTk.
120
Antoine Pitrou9989d852011-01-15 16:18:57 +0000121- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
122 length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
123 is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
124
Terry Reedyf7dd7992011-01-10 22:15:19 +0000125- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
126
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +0000127- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime
128 function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
129 false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range
130 accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
131 dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
132 by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
133
Georg Brandl6adb9792011-01-09 07:53:14 +0000134- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
135 node twice.
136
Antoine Pitrou1f1613f2011-01-06 18:30:26 +0000137- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
138 on an existing file.
139
Antoine Pitrou77c1b382011-01-06 17:19:05 +0000140- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
141 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
142
Antoine Pitrou91ce0d92011-01-03 18:45:09 +0000143- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
144 file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
145 patch by Ross Lagerwall.
146
Antoine Pitroub0614612011-01-02 20:04:52 +0000147- Issue #4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
148 DeprecationWarning.
149
Raymond Hettinger8ebebd82011-01-02 01:03:26 +0000150- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
151
Senthil Kumaran559395f2010-12-29 06:30:19 +0000152- Issue 10753 - Characters ';','=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
153 variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's
154 request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
155 params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
156
Terry Reedy0df73672010-12-28 19:53:32 +0000157- Issue 10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
158
R. David Murray08fc7012010-12-28 19:11:03 +0000159- Issue 9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
160 browsers actually parse cookies.
161
R. David Murray5360d002010-12-27 19:17:17 +0000162- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
163 email.header.Header.encode.
164
R. David Murray5874ed62010-12-26 22:29:53 +0000165- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
166 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
167 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
168
Antoine Pitroufc9ead62010-12-21 21:26:55 +0000169- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
170
Daniel Stutzbach57cf0af2011-01-04 18:47:17 +0000171- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
Michael Foorde6e0e262010-12-19 15:52:56 +0000172 about input.
173
Michael Foorda17f0762010-12-19 14:53:19 +0000174- Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
175
Antoine Pitroud7b6ac62010-12-18 18:18:21 +0000176- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
177 to avoid denial of services from the other party.
178
R. David Murray3f752ab2010-12-18 17:22:18 +0000179- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
180
181- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray7a697252010-12-18 03:52:09 +0000182 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
183
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +0000184- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
185 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
186
Senthil Kumaran5c7fd6e2010-12-17 04:56:02 +0000187- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
188 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000189
Antoine Pitrou47d9b0e2010-12-16 17:11:34 +0000190- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
191 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
192
Éric Araujoe04c13c2010-12-15 21:15:25 +0000193- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
194
R. David Murraydacb8042010-12-14 14:34:16 +0000195- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
196 causes debug mode to fail.
197
Ronald Oussoren8ec374c2010-12-07 16:02:59 +0000198- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
199
Ronald Oussoren517858a2010-12-07 16:13:17 +0000200- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
201 platforms).
202
Antoine Pitrou4cb64ad2010-12-03 19:31:52 +0000203- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
204 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
205 current process.
206
Éric Araujofb3de6b2010-12-03 19:24:49 +0000207- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
208
R. David Murrayd75cc912010-12-02 03:16:23 +0000209- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
210
Gregory P. Smith312efbc2010-12-14 15:02:53 +0000211- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
212 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
213 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
214
Steven Bethardf8583ac2011-01-24 20:40:15 +0000215- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
216 argparse.FileType.
217
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +0000218Extension Modules
219-----------------
220
221- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
222
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +0000223Build
224-----
225
Thomas Wouters5edae7e2011-03-06 11:48:05 -0800226- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
227
Georg Brandl94800df2011-02-25 11:09:02 +0000228- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
229
230- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
231
Georg Brandl71f4fbb2011-02-25 11:04:50 +0000232- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
233
Ned Deilye6cc7d62011-02-21 21:00:09 +0000234- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
235 package had previously been installed.
236
Ned Deily68adfdc2011-02-07 16:52:25 +0000237- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac
238 OS X installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
239
Ned Deily53c460d2011-01-30 01:43:40 +0000240- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
241 the system-provided Python.
242
243- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X
244 32-bit installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
245 (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
246 support enabled).
247
Antoine Pitrou9828b562011-01-03 19:11:32 +0000248- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
249
Antoine Pitrou31e85952011-01-03 18:57:14 +0000250- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
251 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
252
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +0000253- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
254 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
255
David Malcolm4c29e1c2011-01-06 17:39:24 +0000256- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
257 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
258 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
259 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
260
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -0400261- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
262 using GCC 4.0.
263
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +0000264Tests
265-----
266
R David Murraycdd5fc92011-03-13 22:37:18 -0400267- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
268 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
269
Antoine Pitrou8bc59fa2011-01-12 18:56:09 +0000270- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
271 by Ross Lagerwall.
272
Antoine Pitrou8c688be2011-01-03 20:49:01 +0000273- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
274 in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
275 explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
276
R. David Murrayf8a63912010-12-14 16:26:30 +0000277- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
278 encountering them.
279
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +0000280- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
281 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
282
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000283
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +0000284What's New in Python 2.7.1?
285===========================
286
Benjamin Peterson3e0fa422010-11-27 14:40:29 +0000287*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +0000288
289Library
290-------
291
Éric Araujo54274ad2011-02-03 00:12:18 +0000292- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
293
294- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
295
Raymond Hettinger061bf7a2010-11-30 03:15:35 +0000296- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
297 inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
298 iterator was undefined.
299
Alexander Belopolsky1fea5c42010-11-30 01:18:17 +0000300- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
301 ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
302
Georg Brandl79f096a2010-11-26 07:57:57 +0000303- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
304
Martin v. Löwise03c7782010-11-22 10:53:46 +0000305- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
306
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +0000307- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
308
Senthil Kumaran9a5897b2010-11-29 12:41:03 +0000309- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
310
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +0000311- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
312 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
313
Georg Brandl86e0c892010-11-26 07:22:28 +0000314- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
315 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
316 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
317
Senthil Kumaran0b7cac12010-11-22 05:04:33 +0000318- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
319 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
320
Brian Curtin2d011ed2010-11-21 23:50:51 +0000321- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
322 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
323
Éric Araujo4fadd532010-11-20 20:02:41 +0000324- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
325
Georg Brandl839c1132010-11-20 11:29:38 +0000326- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
327 is called without data.
328
Benjamin Peterson4fec9ce2010-11-20 17:31:08 +0000329- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
330 end of the file.
331
Senthil Kumaran501bfd82010-11-14 03:31:52 +0000332- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
333
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +0000334Build
335-----
336
Brian Curtin69a106a2010-11-22 02:08:49 +0000337- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
338
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +0000339- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
340
Ezio Melotti2623a372010-11-21 13:34:58 +0000341Tests
342-----
343
344- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
345
Ezio Melottibf8484e2010-11-24 21:54:47 +0000346Documentation
347-------------
348
349- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
350
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +0000351
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +0000352What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
353===============================================
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000354
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +0000355*Release date: 2010-11-13*
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000356
357Core and Builtins
358-----------------
359
Raymond Hettinger2ad17e12010-10-30 08:17:46 +0000360- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
361 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
362
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000363- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
364 ``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +0000365
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000366- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
367 length of the offending line.
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +0000368
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +0000369- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
370 resolution.
371
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +0000372- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
373 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
374
Jesus Cea33c722b2010-11-04 21:39:52 +0000375- Issue #9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
376 warning.
377
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +0000378- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
379 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
380
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +0000381- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
382 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
383 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
384 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
385
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +0000386- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
387
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +0000388- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
389 thread-local storage key.
390
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +0000391- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
392 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
393 the same behaviour than the print statement.
394
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +0000395- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
396 a memoryview object.
397
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +0000398- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
399
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +0000400- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
401
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +0000402- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
403 of an array.
404
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +0000405- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
406
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +0000407- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
408 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
409
410 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
411 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
412
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +0000413- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
414 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000415
416Library
417-------
418
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +0000419- Issue 9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
420
Antoine Pitrou7eaa4482010-11-09 23:15:18 +0000421- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
422 Lorenzo M. Catucci.
423
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +0000424- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
425 --enable-shared.
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +0000426
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +0000427- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
428
429- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
430
431- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
432 not in build_clib.
433
Éric Araujoe9954b52010-11-06 04:53:42 +0000434- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
435 Arfrever.
436
Éric Araujoe28665a2010-11-06 04:36:28 +0000437- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
438
Éric Araujod1feff72010-11-06 04:06:18 +0000439- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
440 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
441
Antoine Pitrou6b1167c2010-11-05 19:55:02 +0000442- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
443 its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
444
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000445- Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
446 from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
Michael Foorde5dc24e2010-11-01 22:11:53 +0000447
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000448- Issue #120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
449
450- Issue #6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
451 EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
452 instead.
Giampaolo Rodolà19e9fef2010-11-01 15:07:14 +0000453
Antoine Pitrou61d14b72010-10-31 16:17:36 +0000454- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
455 as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
456
Antoine Pitrou3917c092010-10-31 13:12:48 +0000457- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
458 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
459
Antoine Pitrou594a0462010-10-31 13:05:48 +0000460- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
461 for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
462
Raymond Hettingercbba8d42010-10-30 07:29:44 +0000463- Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
464
Antoine Pitrou638cee62010-10-28 14:50:57 +0000465- Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file
466 object with custom buffering from two threads at once.
467
Antoine Pitrou7f081022010-10-27 18:43:21 +0000468- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
469 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
470 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
471
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +0000472- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
473 initialization.
474
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +0000475- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
476 ntpath.relpath().
477
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +0000478- Issue 9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
479 debugging in doctests.
480
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +0000481- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
482 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
483
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +0000484- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
485 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
486
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +0000487- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
488
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +0000489- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
490
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +0000491- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
492 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
493
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +0000494- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
495 gettext.
496
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +0000497- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
498 gname field.
499
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +0000500- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
501 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
502
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +0000503- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
504 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
505
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +0000506- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
507 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
508 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
509 with a timeout.
510
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +0000511- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
512
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +0000513- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
514
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +0000515- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
516
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +0000517- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
518
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +0000519- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
520 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
521
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +0000522- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
523 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
524 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
525 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
526 by Andrew Bennetts.
527
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +0000528- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
529 values: d['x'] = d.
530
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +0000531- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +0000532
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +0000533- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
534 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
535
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +0000536- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
537 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
538 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
539 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
540 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
541 to zero.
542
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +0000543- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +0000544 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +0000545 value.
546
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +0000547- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
548 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
549 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
550 original error is re-raised.
551
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +0000552- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
553 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
554 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
555
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +0000556- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
557 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
558
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +0000559- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
560 ConfigParser.write.
561
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +0000562- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
563 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
564
Terry Reedyd2d2ae92010-11-11 23:22:19 +0000565- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
566 can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
567 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
568
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +0000569- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
570 falling into recursion.
571
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +0000572- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
573 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
574
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +0000575- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
576 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
577
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +0000578- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +0000579 error handling when accepting a new connection.
580
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +0000581- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
582 errors.
583
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +0000584- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
585
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +0000586- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
587 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
588
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +0000589- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
590 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
591
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +0000592- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
593 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
594
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +0000595- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
596 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
597 overridden to provide ordered views.
598
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +0000599- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
600 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
601 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
602
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +0000603- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
604 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
605 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
606
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +0000607- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
608 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
609 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
610 patch by Jason V. Miller.
611
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +0000612- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
613 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
614
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +0000615- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
616 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
617
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +0000618- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
619 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
620 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
621
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +0000622- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
623 current node.
624
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +0000625- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
626
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +0000627- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
628 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
629
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +0000630- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
631 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
632 behavior was wrong.
633
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +0000634- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
635
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +0000636- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
637 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
638
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +0000639- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
640 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
641 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
642
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +0000643- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
644
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +0000645- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
646 the command line.
647
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +0000648- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
649 interactive browser.
650
651- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
652 regular expressions.
653
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +0000654- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
655 data generated with the profile module.
656
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +0000657- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
658 entries, consider the first one.
659
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +0000660- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
661 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
662
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +0000663- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
664 in the top-level debugged frame.
665
666- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
667 in doctests.
668
669- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
670 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
671
672- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
673 been reassigned.
674
675- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
676 a breakpoint command.
677
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +0000678- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
679 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
680
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +0000681- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
682 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
683
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +0000684- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
685
686- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
687 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
688
689- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
690 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
691
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +0000692- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
693
694- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
695
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +0000696- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
697 across devices.
698
699- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
700
701- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
702
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +0000703- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
704 string when Unicode was previously output.
705
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +0000706- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
707 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
708
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +0000709- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
710 utf-16 incremental encoders.
711
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +0000712- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
713
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +0000714- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
715 parameters.
716
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +0000717- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
718 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
719 XML-RPC request.
720
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +0000721- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
722
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +0000723- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
724 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
725 options).
726
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +0000727- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
728
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +0000729- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
730 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
731 (Jan Hosang).
732
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +0000733- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
734
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +0000735- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
736 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
737 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
738
739- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
740 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
741 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
742
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +0000743- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
744 strings in add_option calls.
745
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +0000746- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
747
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +0000748- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000749
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +0000750- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
751
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +0000752- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
753 for tracing methods.
754
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000755Extension Modules
756-----------------
757
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +0000758- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
759 with expat version 2.0.1.
760
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +0000761- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +0000762 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +0000763
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +0000764- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
765 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
766
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +0000767- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
768 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
769
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +0000770- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
771 interpreter by default.
772
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +0000773- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
774 to prevent crashes.
775
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +0000776- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
777 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
778 2**31 elements.
779
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +0000780- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
781
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +0000782- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
783 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
784
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +0000785- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
786 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
787
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +0000788- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
789
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +0000790- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
791
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +0000792- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
793
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +0000794- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
795 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
796 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
797 returns the same information as the id command.
798
799 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
800
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +0000801- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
802 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
803 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
804 char is unsigned.
805
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +0000806- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
807
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -0400808
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +0000809Tools/Demos
810-----------
811
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +0000812- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
813
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +0000814- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
815 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
816 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
817
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +0000818Build
819-----
820
Antoine Pitroue0c5f3c2010-10-27 20:35:26 +0000821- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
822
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +0000823- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
824 Akira Kitada.
825
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +0000826- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
827
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +0000828- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
829
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +0000830- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
831 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
832
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +0000833- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
834 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
835
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +0000836- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
837 Sablé.
838
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +0000839- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
840 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
841 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +0000842
843- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
844 Sébastien Sablé.
845
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +0000846- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
847
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000848- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
849 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +0000850
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000851- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
852 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
853 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +0000854
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +0000855- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
856 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
857 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
858
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +0000859- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
860 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +0000861
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +0000862Tests
863-----
864
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +0000865- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
866 in test_os)
867
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +0000868- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
869
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +0000870- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
871 case when running profile or trace, for example.
872
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +0000873- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +0000874
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +0000875- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
876
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +0000877- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
878
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +0000879- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
880
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +0000881- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
882
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +0000883- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
884 Michele Orrù.
885
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +0000886- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
887
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +0000888- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
889
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +0000890Documentation
891-------------
892
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +0000893- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
894 to Doc/license.rst.
895
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +0000896- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
897 with os.kill.
898
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000899- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
900 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +0000901
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000902- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +0000903
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000904
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +0000905What's New in Python 2.7?
906=========================
907
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +0000908*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +0000909
910Core and Builtins
911-----------------
912
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +0000913- Prevent assignment to set literals.
914
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +0000915Library
916-------
917
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +0000918- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
919 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
920
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +0000921- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
922
923Extension Modules
924-----------------
925
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +0000926- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
927 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +0000928
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +0000929- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
930 on an OpenSSL structure.
931
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +0000932
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +0000933What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
934=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000935
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +0000936*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000937
938Core and Builtins
939-----------------
940
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +0000941- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
942
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +0000943- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
944 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
945 See tracker issue for details.
946
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +0000947- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
948 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
949 (higher than 0x10000).
950
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +0000951- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
952 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +0000953
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +0000954Build
955-----
956
957- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
958
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000959Library
960-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +0000961
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +0000962- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +0000963 raises an exception.
964
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +0000965- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
966 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
967 and after calling foreign functions.
968
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +0000969- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
970 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
971
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +0000972- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
973 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
974
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +0000975- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000976
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +0000977- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
978 now honored in unittest debug methods.
979
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +0000980Documentation
981-------------
982
983- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
984 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
985
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +0000986Misc
987----
988
989- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
990
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000991
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +0000992What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
993=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +0000994
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +0000995*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +0000996
997Core and Builtins
998-----------------
999
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +00001000- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
1001 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
1002 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
1003 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
1004 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
1005 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
1006 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
1007
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00001008- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +00001009 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
1010 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
1011 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
1012 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00001013
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +00001014- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
1015 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
1016 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
1017 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
1018 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
1019 in sets or dicts.
1020
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +00001021- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
1022 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
1023 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
1024
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +00001025- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
1026 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
1027
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001028- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
1029 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +00001030
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001031- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
1032 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +00001033
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00001034- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +00001035 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
1036
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00001037C-API
1038-----
1039
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001040- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
1041 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
1042 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00001043 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
1044
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001045Library
1046-------
1047
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +00001048- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
1049 reported as a skip rather than an error.
1050
1051- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
1052 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
1053 reports.
1054
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +00001055- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
1056
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +00001057- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
1058 accepted by the codecs module.
1059
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +00001060- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
1061
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +00001062- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
1063 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
1064
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +00001065- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
1066 mistake.
1067
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +00001068- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
1069 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
1070
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +00001071- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
1072 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
1073
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +00001074- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
1075 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +00001076
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +00001077- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
1078
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +00001079- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
1080
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +00001081- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
1082 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
1083 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +00001084
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00001085- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001086 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00001087
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +00001088- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
1089 of files without one.
1090
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001091- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +00001092 comparing to a non-mapping.
1093
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001094- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +00001095
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001096- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
1097 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +00001098
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +00001099- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
1100
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001101- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
1102 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
1103 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +00001104
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00001105Extension Modules
1106-----------------
1107
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +00001108- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
1109 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
1110 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
1111
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +00001112- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
1113 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
1114
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00001115- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001116 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001117
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00001118Tests
1119-----
1120
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +00001121- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
1122 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
1123
1124- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +00001125 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
1126
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +00001127- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
1128
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001129- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
1130 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
1131 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00001132
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +00001133Build
1134-----
1135
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +00001136- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
1137 releases.
1138
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00001139- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +00001140 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00001141
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +00001142Tools/Demos
1143-----------
1144
1145- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
1146
1147
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00001148What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
1149================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001150
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +00001151*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001152
1153Core and Builtins
1154-----------------
1155
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001156- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +00001157
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001158- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
1159 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
1160 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
1161 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
1162 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +00001163
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001164- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
1165 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +00001166
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +00001167- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
1168
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00001169- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001170 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00001171 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
1172 Charles-François Natali.
1173
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +00001174- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
1175 passed to bytearray.
1176
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001177- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +00001178
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001179- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +00001180
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001181- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
1182 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
1183 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +00001184
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001185Library
1186-------
1187
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001188- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
1189 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +00001190
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001191- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
1192 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +00001193
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001194- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00001195
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001196- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
1197 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
1198 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
1199 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00001200
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001201- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
1202 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +00001203
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +00001204- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
1205
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001206- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
1207 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +00001208
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001209- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
1210 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +00001211
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001212- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
1213 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
1214 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
1215 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
1216 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +00001217
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00001218- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001219 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
1220 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00001221
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +00001222- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
1223
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00001224- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
1225 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
1226
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001227- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
1228 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +00001229
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001230- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
1231 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +00001232
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001233- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +00001234 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
1235 "Include".
1236
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001237- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
1238 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +00001239
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001240- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
1241 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +00001242
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001243- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
1244 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +00001245
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001246- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
1247 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
1248 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +00001249
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001250- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
1251 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +00001252
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001253- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +00001254
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001255- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
1256 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +00001257
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001258- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +00001259
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001260- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
1261 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
1262 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
1263 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +00001264
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +00001265- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
1266 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
1267
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001268- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
1269 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +00001270
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +00001271- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
1272
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001273- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
1274 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +00001275
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001276- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
1277 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +00001278
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001279- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
1280 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
1281 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +00001282
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001283- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
1284 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00001285 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
1286 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
1287
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001288- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
1289 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
1290 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +00001291
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +00001292- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
1293
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001294- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
1295 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +00001296
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001297- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +00001298
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001299- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
1300 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +00001301
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001302- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
1303 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +00001304
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +00001305- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
1306
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +00001307- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
1308 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
1309
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001310- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +00001311 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
1312
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00001313- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001314 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
1315 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00001316
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00001317- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001318 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
1319 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00001320
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +00001321- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
1322
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001323- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
1324 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00001325
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00001326Extension Modules
1327-----------------
1328
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001329- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +00001330
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +00001331- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
1332
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00001333- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
1334
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001335- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
1336 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +00001337
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00001338Tests
1339-----
1340
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001341- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
1342 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
1343 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +00001344
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001345- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
1346 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +00001347
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +00001348- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
1349 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
1350
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001351- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
1352 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +00001353
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001354- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
1355 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00001356
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00001357Build
1358-----
1359
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001360- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +00001361 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
1362 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
1363 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
1364
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00001365- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
1366
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001367- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
1368 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +00001369
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001370- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +00001371
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +00001372Misc
1373----
1374
1375- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
1376
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001377
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001378What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
1379================================
1380
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +00001381*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001382
1383Core and Builtins
1384-----------------
1385
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +00001386- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
1387
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +00001388- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
1389 changed.
1390
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001391- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +00001392 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
1393 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
1394
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +00001395- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
1396
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001397- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +00001398
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +00001399- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
1400
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001401- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
1402 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
1403 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
1404 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
Antoine Pitrou01a196a2011-01-02 20:05:11 +00001405 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001406 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +00001407
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +00001408- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
1409 references.
1410
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001411- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
1412 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00001413
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00001414- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00001415
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00001416- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
1417 arguments to a function correct.
1418
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00001419- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
1420
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00001421- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001422 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
1423 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00001424 module.
1425
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00001426- Code objects now support weak references.
1427
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001428Library
1429-------
1430
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00001431- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
1432
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00001433- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001434 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
1435 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00001436
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00001437- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
1438
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001439- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
1440 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00001441
1442 >>> Decimal(1.1)
1443 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
1444
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00001445- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
1446
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001447- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
1448 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00001449
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001450- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
1451 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00001452
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001453- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
1454 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00001455
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001456- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
1457 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
1458 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
1459 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00001460
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001461- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
1462 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
1463 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
1464 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00001465
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00001466- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001467 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
1468 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
1469 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00001470
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001471- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
1472 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00001473
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00001474- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
1475 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001476 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00001477
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001478- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
1479 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
1480 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
1481 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00001482
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00001483- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
1484
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00001485- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
1486
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00001487- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
1488 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
1489
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00001490- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
1491
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00001492- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001493 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
1494 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00001495
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00001496- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
1497 deprecated.
1498
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001499- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
1500 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00001501
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001502- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
1503 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00001504
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001505- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
1506 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
1507 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00001508
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001509- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
1510 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00001511
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00001512- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
1513 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
1514 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00001515
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00001516- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
1517
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00001518- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
1519
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001520- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
1521 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
1522 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00001523
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00001524- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
1525 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
1526
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001527- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00001528
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001529- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
1530 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00001531
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001532- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
1533 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001534 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00001535
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00001536- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001537 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
1538 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
1539 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00001540
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001541- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00001542 cElementTree module is updated too.
1543
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00001544- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
1545
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001546- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00001547 classes.
1548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001549- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
1550 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
1551 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
1552 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00001553
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00001554- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
1555 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
1556
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00001557- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
1558
1559- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
1560 during test runs.
1561
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00001562- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00001563 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
1564
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00001565Extension Modules
1566-----------------
1567
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00001568- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
1569
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00001570- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
1571
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00001572- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001573 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
1574 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00001575
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00001576- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
1577
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00001578- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
1579
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00001580- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
1581 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
1582 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
1583 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
1584
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001585- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
1586 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
1587 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001588 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
1589 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
1590 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
1591 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00001592
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001593- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
1594 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00001595
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00001596Tools/Demos
1597-----------
1598
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001599- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
1600 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
1601 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001602
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00001603- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
1604
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00001605Build
1606-----
1607
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001608- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
1609 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00001610
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001611- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
1612 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
1613 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00001614
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00001615- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
1616
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00001617- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
1618
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00001619- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
1620 assembly file.
1621
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00001622C-API
1623-----
1624
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00001625- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001626 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
1627 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00001628
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001629- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
1630 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
1631 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
1632 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00001633
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00001634Tests
1635-----
1636
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001637- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
1638 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00001639
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00001640- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
1641
1642- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
1643
1644- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
1645
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00001646- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
1647
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00001648- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
1649
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00001650- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
1651 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
1652
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00001653- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
1654 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00001655
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001656- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
1657 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00001658
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00001659
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001660What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
1661=================================
1662
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00001663*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001664
1665Core and Builtins
1666-----------------
1667
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001668- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
1669 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00001670
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001671- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
1672 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00001673
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00001674- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001675 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00001676
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00001677- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001678 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
1679 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00001680
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001681- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
1682 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00001683
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001684- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00001685 Parser/myreadline.c.
1686
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00001687- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001688 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00001689
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001690- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
1691 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00001692
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001693Library
1694-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00001695
Senthil Kumaranc1d0ed22010-12-04 09:58:29 +00001696- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
1697 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
1698 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
1699
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00001700- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
1701 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001702
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00001703- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
1704
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001705- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00001706 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00001707
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001708- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00001709 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
1710
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001711- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
1712 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00001713
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00001714- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001715 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00001716
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00001717- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00001718
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001719- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
1720 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00001721
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001722- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00001723
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001724- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
1725 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00001726
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001727- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
1728 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00001729
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00001730- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
1731
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001732- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
1733 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
1734 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
1735 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00001736
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001737- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
1738 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001739
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00001740- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
1741 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
1742 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001743
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00001744- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00001745 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00001746
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001747- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00001748
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001749- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00001750
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001751- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00001752
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001753- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
1754 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00001755
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00001756- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001757 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00001758
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001759- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00001760
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00001761- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
1762
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00001763Extension Modules
1764-----------------
1765
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001766- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00001767 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
1768
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00001769- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
1770
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001771- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00001772 handling.
1773
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00001774- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
1775 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001776
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001777- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00001778 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
1779 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
1780
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001781- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
1782 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00001783
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001784Tests
1785-----
1786
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001787- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
1788 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
1789 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00001790
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00001791- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
1792 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
1793
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001794- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
1795 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00001796
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001797- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00001798 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00001799
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001800- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00001801 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
1802
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001803- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
1804 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
1805 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
1806 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001807
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00001808Build
1809-----
1810
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00001811- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00001812
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001813
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001814What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
1815=================================
1816
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00001817*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001818
1819Core and Builtins
1820-----------------
1821
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00001822- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
1823 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001824 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
1825 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00001826
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00001827- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001828 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00001829
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001830- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
1831 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00001832
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001833- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00001834
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001835- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
1836 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00001837
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001838- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
1839 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
1840 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
1841 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00001842
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001843- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
1844 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
1845 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
1846 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00001847
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00001848- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
1849 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
1850 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
1851
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001852- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
1853 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00001854
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001855 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
1856 strings,
1857 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
1858 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
1859 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
1860 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
1861
1862- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
1863 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00001864
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00001865- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
1866
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00001867- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
1868
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00001869- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
1870
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001871Library
1872-------
1873
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00001874- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
1875 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
1876
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00001877- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
1878 interpreter shutdown.
1879
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001880- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
1881 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
1882 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
1883 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00001884
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001885- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00001886
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001887- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00001888
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001889- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00001890
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00001891- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001892 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00001893 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
1894 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
1895
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00001896- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
1897
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00001898- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001899 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
1900 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00001901 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
1902
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001903- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
1904 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
1905 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
1906 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
1907 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
1908 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00001909
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00001910- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
1911
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001912- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
1913 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00001914
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001915- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
1916 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00001917
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001918- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
1919 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
1920 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
1921 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00001922
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001923- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00001924 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
1925 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
1926
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001927- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00001928 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
1929
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001930- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
1931 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00001932
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001933- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
1934 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00001935
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001936- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
1937 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00001938
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001939- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
1940 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00001941
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00001942- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001943 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
1944 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00001945
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00001946Extension Modules
1947-----------------
1948
1949- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
1950 (CVE_2009_3560).
1951
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00001952Build
1953-----
1954
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001955- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
1956 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
1957 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00001958
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00001959- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
1960
1961- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
1962 MacOSX.
1963
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00001964- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
1965 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
1966
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00001967Tools/Demos
1968-----------
1969
1970- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001971 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00001972 sandbox.
1973
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00001974Tests
1975-----
1976
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001977- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00001978 instead of a hard coded port.
1979
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00001980Documentation
1981-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00001982
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001983- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
1984 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00001985
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001986- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00001987 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
1988
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001989
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001990What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
1991=================================
1992
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00001993*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001994
1995Core and Builtins
1996-----------------
1997
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001998- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
1999 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00002000
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00002001- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
2002 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
2003
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00002004- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002005 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
2006 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
2007 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
2008 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
2009 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00002010
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00002011- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
2012 AttributeError.
2013
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002014- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
2015 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00002016
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002017- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00002018
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00002019- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
2020 used to drop the time part of the result.
2021
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002022- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
2023 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
2024 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
2025 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00002026
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002027- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
2028 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
2029 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00002030
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002031- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00002032 executables on OSX.
2033
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002034 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
2035 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
2036 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00002037
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002038- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
2039 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00002040
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00002041- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
2042
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002043- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
2044 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00002045
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00002046
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002047Library
2048-------
2049
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002050- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
2051 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
2052 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00002053
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002054- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
2055 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
2056 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00002057
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00002058- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002059 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
2060 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00002061 Xicluna.
2062
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002063- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
2064 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00002065
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002066- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
2067 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00002068
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002069- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
2070 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
2071 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00002072
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002073- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00002074 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
2075
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002076- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
2077 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00002078
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002079- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00002080 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
2081
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002082- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
2083 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00002084
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002085- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
2086 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00002087
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002088- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
2089 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
2090 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00002091
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002092- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
2093 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00002094
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00002095- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
2096 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
2097 the same as passing no argument.
2098
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002099- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
2100 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00002101
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002102- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00002103
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002104- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00002105
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002106- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
2107 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00002108
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002109- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
2110 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002111
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002112- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
2113 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00002114
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00002115C-API
2116-----
2117
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002118- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
2119 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00002120
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002121- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
2122 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
2123 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
2124 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
2125 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
2126 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
2127 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00002128
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002129- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00002130
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00002131Build
2132-----
2133
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00002134- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
2135
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00002136- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002137 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00002138
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002139- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
2140 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
2141 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00002142
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00002143- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
2144 found.
2145
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00002146- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00002147
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002148- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
2149 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00002150
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00002151Tests
2152-----
2153
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002154- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00002155 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
2156
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002157- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00002158
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00002159- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
2160 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
2161
2162
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002163What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
2164================================
2165
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00002166*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002167
2168Core and Builtins
2169-----------------
2170
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002171- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
2172 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00002173
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002174- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
2175 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
2176 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00002177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002178- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
2179 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00002180
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002181- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
2182 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
2183 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00002184
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002185- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00002186
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002187- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00002188
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002189- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
2190 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00002191
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002192- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
2193 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
2194 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
2195 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
2196 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
2197 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00002198
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002199- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
2200 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
2201 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
2202 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
2203 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
2204 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
2205 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00002206
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002207 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
2208 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
2209 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
2210 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
2211 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
2212 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
2213 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
2214 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
2215 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
2216 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00002217
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002218- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
2219 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
2220 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
2221 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
2222 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
2223 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
2224 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
2225 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00002226
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00002227- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
2228
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002229- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
2230 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00002231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002232- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
2233 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00002234
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002235- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
2236 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00002237
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00002238- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
2239
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002240- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
2241 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
2242 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00002243
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002244- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
2245 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00002246
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002247- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
2248 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002249
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002250- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
2251 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00002252
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002253- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
2254 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
2255 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00002256
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002257- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
2258 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00002259
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00002260- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
2261 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
2262 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
2263 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
2264
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00002265- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
2266 assignment.
2267
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002268- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
2269 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00002270
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002271- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
2272 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00002273
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002274- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
2275 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00002276
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00002277- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00002278 take keyword arguments.
2279
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002280- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
2281 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00002282
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002283- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
2284 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00002285
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00002286- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
2287
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00002288- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
2289 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
2290
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00002291- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
2292
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002293- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00002294
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002295- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00002296 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
2297
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002298- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
2299 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00002300
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002301- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00002302
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002303- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00002304
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002305- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00002306 occurred in the argument chain.
2307
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00002308- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
2309
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002310- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
2311 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00002312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002313- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00002314 separator and end should be unicode also.
2315
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00002316- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
2317 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00002318
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002319- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
2320 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
2321 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00002322
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00002323- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
2324
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00002325- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
2326 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
2327
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00002328- Removed the ipaddr module.
2329
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00002330- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
2331 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
2332
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002333- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00002334
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00002335- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
2336 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
2337
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00002338- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
2339
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002340- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
2341 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00002342
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00002343- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002344 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00002345
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002346- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
2347 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00002348
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00002349- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002350 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00002351
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00002352- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
2353 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
2354
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002355- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
2356 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
2357 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00002358
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00002359- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
2360
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002361- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
2362 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00002363
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002364- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00002365
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00002366- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00002367
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002368 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
2369 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
2370 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00002371
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002372- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
2373 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
2374 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
2375 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
2376 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
2377 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
2378 complex.__format__ in the same way.
2379
2380- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
2381 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
2382 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00002383
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00002384- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002385 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00002386
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002387- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
2388 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00002389
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002390- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
2391 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00002392
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002393- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
2394 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00002395
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002396- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
2397 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00002398
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00002399- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
2400 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
2401
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00002402- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
2403
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002404- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
2405 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00002406
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002407- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
2408 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00002409
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002410- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
2411 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00002412
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002413- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
2414 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00002415
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002416- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
2417 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00002418
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002419- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00002420 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00002421
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002422- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
2423 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00002424
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00002425- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
2426
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002427- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00002428
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002429- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
2430 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00002431
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002432- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00002433
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00002434- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
2435 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
2436
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00002437- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
2438
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002439- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
2440 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00002441
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00002442- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002443 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
2444 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
2445 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00002446
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002447- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
2448 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
2449 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00002450
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002451- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
2452 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
2453 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
2454 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
2455 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00002456
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00002457- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
2458 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
2459
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002460- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
2461 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
2462 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00002463
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002464- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
2465 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00002466
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002467- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00002468 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
2469
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002470- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
2471 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00002472
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002473- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
2474 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00002475
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002476- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
2477 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00002478
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00002479- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
2480 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
2481
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002482- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
2483 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00002484
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00002485- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
2486
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00002487- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00002488 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
2489 zip(), and bytearray().
2490
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00002491- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
2492 functions.
2493
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00002494- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
2495 OSError.
2496
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00002497- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
2498
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002499- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
2500 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
2501 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00002502
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00002503- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
2504 __next__ method.
2505
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00002506- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
2507
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00002508- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
2509
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00002510- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
2511 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
2512 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00002513 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00002514 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
2515
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00002516- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
2517
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002518- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
2519 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
2520 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
2521 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
2522 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00002523
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002524- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00002525
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00002526- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
2527 file with `str' filename on Windows.
2528
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00002529- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
2530 did not get collected.
2531
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002532- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
2533 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00002534
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00002535- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
2536 directory on POSIX systems.
2537
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00002538- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
2539 systems.
2540
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00002541- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002542 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00002543
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00002544- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
2545 fail.
2546
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002547- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
2548 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
2549 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00002550
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00002551- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
2552
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002553- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
2554 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00002555
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002556- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
2557 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00002558
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002559- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00002560
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002561- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
2562 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
2563 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
2564 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00002565
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00002566- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
2567 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
2568 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
2569
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002570- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
2571 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00002572
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00002573- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
2574 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
2575
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002576- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
2577 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
2578 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
2579 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00002580
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00002581- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
2582 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
2583
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002584- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00002585
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00002586- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
2587
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00002588- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
2589
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00002590- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
2591 exec statement.
2592
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002593- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
2594 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00002595
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00002596- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
2597 __future__ import didn't work.
2598
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00002599- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00002600 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00002601
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002602- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
2603 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
2604 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
2605 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00002606
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002607- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
2608 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
2609 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
2610 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00002611
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002612- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
2613 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00002614
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00002615- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
2616
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00002617- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
2618
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00002619- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
2620
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002621- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
2622 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00002623
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00002624- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
2625 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00002626
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00002627- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
2628 returned them on 64bit platforms.
2629
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00002630- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
2631 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
2632 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
2633 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
2634
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00002635- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
2636 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
2637
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002638- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
2639 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
2640 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
2641 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00002642
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002643Library
2644-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00002645
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00002646- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00002647
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00002648- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
2649
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002650- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
2651 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00002652
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002653- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00002654 TLS with authentication credentials.
2655
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002656- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
2657 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00002658
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00002659- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
2660 msvc9compiler.
2661
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002662- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
2663 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
2664 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00002665
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00002666- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
2667 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
2668 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
2669
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002670- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
2671 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00002672
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00002673- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
2674
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00002675- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002676 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00002677 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
2678
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002679- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
2680 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
2681 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00002682
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00002683- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
2684
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002685- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
2686 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00002687
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00002688- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
2689 raises ReadError on empty files.
2690
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002691- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00002692
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00002693- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
2694 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00002695
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002696- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
2697 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00002698
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002699- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
2700 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00002701
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002702- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00002703
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002704- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
2705 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00002706
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002707- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
2708 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00002709
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002710- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
2711 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
2712 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00002713 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
2714 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
2715
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002716- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
2717 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
2718 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00002719
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00002720- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002721 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00002722 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
2723
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002724- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
2725 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
2726 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00002727
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00002728- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
2729 which are part of a reference cycle.
2730
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002731- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
2732 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00002733
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002734- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00002735 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
2736 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
2737
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002738- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
2739 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
2740 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
2741 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00002742
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002743- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
2744 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
2745 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
2746 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00002747
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00002748- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
2749 header as required by RFC 1952.
2750
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00002751- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
2752 Distutils.
2753
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00002754- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
2755 an uppercase.
2756
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002757- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
2758 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00002759
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00002760- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
2761 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
2762
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00002763- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00002764 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
2765
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00002766- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
2767 protocol 2.
2768
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00002769- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
2770
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00002771- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
2772 larger than emax.
2773
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002774- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
2775 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00002776
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00002777- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
2778
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002779- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00002780
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00002781- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
2782
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002783- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00002784
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002785- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00002786
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00002787- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
2788 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002789
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002790- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
2791 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00002792
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002793- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
2794 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00002795
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002796- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00002797 Distutils.
2798
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002799- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00002800
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002801- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
2802 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00002803
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002804- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
2805 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00002806
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00002807- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
2808
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00002809- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
2810
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002811- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
2812 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00002813
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002814- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
2815 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00002816
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002817- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
2818 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00002819
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00002820- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
2821
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00002822- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
2823
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00002824- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002825 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
2826 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00002827
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002828- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00002829
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002830- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
2831 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
2832 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00002833
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002834- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
2835 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00002836
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002837- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00002838
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002839- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
2840 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
2841 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
2842 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00002843
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00002844- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
2845 as documented.
2846
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00002847- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
2848 names in the webbrowser module.
2849
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00002850- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
2851
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00002852- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
2853 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
2854
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00002855- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
2856
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00002857- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
2858
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00002859- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
2860
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00002861- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
2862
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00002863- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
2864
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00002865- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
2866 ScrolledText.
2867
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00002868- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
2869
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002870- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
2871 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00002872
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00002873- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
2874 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
2875 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
2876 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
2877
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00002878- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
2879 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
2880
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00002881- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002882 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
2883 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00002884
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002885- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
2886 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
2887 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00002888
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00002889- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
2890 opening an empty or very small file.
2891
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00002892- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
2893 containing incomplete data.
2894
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002895- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
2896 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00002897
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00002898- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
2899
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002900- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
2901 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
2902 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00002903
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00002904- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00002905
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002906- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
2907 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
2908 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
2909 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00002910
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002911- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00002912
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002913- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
2914
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00002915- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
2916 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
2917
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002918- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00002919
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002920- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00002921 attribute.
2922
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00002923- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
2924
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00002925- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
2926 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
2927
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00002928- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
2929
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002930- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00002931 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002932 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00002933
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002934- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00002935 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
2936
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00002937- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
2938
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002939- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
2940 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00002941 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
2942
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002943- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00002944 argument.
2945
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002946- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
2947 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00002948
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002949- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00002950
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00002951- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
2952
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00002953- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
2954
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00002955- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
2956 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
2957
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002958- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
2959 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00002960
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00002961- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
2962 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
2963 ``io`` module.
2964
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00002965- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
2966
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00002967- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002968 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
2969
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00002970- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
2971
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002972- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
2973 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
2974 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00002975
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00002976- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
2977
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002978- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
2979 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00002980
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00002981- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
2982
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00002983- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
2984 whitespace.
2985
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002986- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
2987 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00002988
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00002989- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
2990 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
2991
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002992- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
2993 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00002994
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002995- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
2996 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00002997
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00002998- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
2999 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
3000 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
3001
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00003002- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
3003 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003004
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003005- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
3006 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
3007 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00003008
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00003009- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
3010 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
3011
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003012- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00003013 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
3014
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003015- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00003016
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003017- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
3018 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00003019
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003020- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00003021 subcommand.
3022
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00003023- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
3024 deepcopy()ing.
3025
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003026- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00003027
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00003028- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
3029
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003030- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00003031
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003032- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00003033 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
3034
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00003035- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
3036 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
3037
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00003038- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003039 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00003040
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003041- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
3042 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00003043
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00003044- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
3045 trying to print a traceback.
3046
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00003047- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
3048
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003049- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
3050 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00003051
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003052- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
3053 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
3054 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00003055 Cournapeau.
3056
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003057- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003058 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00003059
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003060- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
3061 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00003062
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00003063- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
3064
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00003065- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
3066 looking for files given by a relative filename.
3067
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003068- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00003069 extracting a file to the root directory.
3070
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003071- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00003072
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003073- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
3074 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
3075 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00003076
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00003077- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
3078 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
3079
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00003080- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
3081 Contributed by Google.
3082
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00003083- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
3084
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003085- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00003086
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00003087- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
3088
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003089- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
3090 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00003091 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
3092
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003093- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00003094 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
3095 initialized before.
3096
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00003097- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
3098 names which should not be exported.
3099
3100- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003101 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00003102
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00003103- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
3104
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003105- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
3106 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00003107
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00003108- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
3109
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00003110- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003111 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00003112
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003113- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
3114 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
3115 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00003116
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00003117- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
3118
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003119- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
3120
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003121- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
3122 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
3123 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
3124 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
3125 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00003126
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003127- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00003128
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003129- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
3130 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00003131
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003132- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00003133
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003134- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003135 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00003136
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003137- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
3138 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00003139
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003140- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
3141 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00003142
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003143- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
3144 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00003145
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003146- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
3147 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00003148
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003149- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00003150
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00003151- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00003152
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003153- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00003154
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003155- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00003156
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003157- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00003158 mailbox.MH.get_message().
3159
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003160- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
3161 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00003162
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003163- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
3164 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
3165 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00003166
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003167- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
3168 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003169
3170- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00003171 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003172
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003173- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
3174 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00003175 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
3176 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
3177
3178- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
3179 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003180
3181- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00003182 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003183
3184- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00003185 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00003186
3187- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
3188 called immediately before and after a test run.
3189
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003190- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00003191 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
3192 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
3193 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003194
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003195- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00003196
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00003197- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
3198 printing out values.
3199
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003200- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00003201
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00003202- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
3203 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
3204 threads.
3205
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00003206- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
3207
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00003208- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
3209
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003210- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00003211 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
3212 that it was failing to do localization.
3213
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003214- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00003215 Brandl.
3216
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003217- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
3218 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00003219
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00003220- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
3221 with the threading module.
3222
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003223- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00003224
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00003225- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
3226
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003227- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
3228 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00003229
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003230- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003231 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
3232 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00003233
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003234- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
3235 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00003236
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00003237- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
3238 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
3239 output compared to previous Python versions.
3240
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00003241- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
3242
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00003243- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003244 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
3245 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00003246
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003247- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
3248 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
3249 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
3250 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00003251
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003252- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
3253 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
3254 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
3255 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00003256
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00003257- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
3258 even if an exception occurs.
3259
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00003260- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
3261 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
3262
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003263- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
3264 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00003265
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003266- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
3267 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00003268
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003269- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00003270 character.
3271
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003272- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
3273 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00003274
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003275- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00003276
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00003277- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003278 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
3279 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00003280
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003281- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
3282 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
3283 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00003284
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00003285- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
3286
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003287- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00003288 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
3289
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00003290- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
3291
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00003292- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
3293
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003294- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00003295
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00003296- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
3297
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00003298- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
3299
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00003300- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
3301 ready received.
3302
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00003303- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
3304 import guess_extension`` was used.
3305
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003306- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
3307 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00003308
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00003309- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
3310 overrun.
3311
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00003312- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
3313 bdist_rpm command.
3314
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003315- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00003316
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003317- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00003318
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00003319- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
3320 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
3321
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003322- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
3323 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00003324
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00003325- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
3326 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003327
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003328- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
3329 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00003330
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00003331- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
3332
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003333- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
3334 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00003335
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003336- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00003337 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
3338
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00003339- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
3340 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
3341
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003342- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00003343
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003344- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
3345 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00003346
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00003347- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
3348 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
3349
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00003350- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
3351 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
3352
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00003353- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003354 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00003355 ctime of the files involved.
3356
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00003357- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
3358 deadlock.
3359
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003360- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
3361 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
3362 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00003363
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00003364- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
3365
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003366- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
3367 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003368
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003369- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
3370 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00003371
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003372- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
3373 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
3374 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00003375
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003376- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
3377 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
3378 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
3379 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00003380
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003381- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00003382 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
3383
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003384- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
3385 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00003386
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00003387- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
3388 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
3389
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003390- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00003391 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
3392
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00003393- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
3394
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003395- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
3396 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00003397
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003398- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
3399 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00003400
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00003401- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
3402
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003403- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00003404 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
3405
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003406- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
3407 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00003408
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003409- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
3410 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00003411
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00003412- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
3413
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003414- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00003415
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003416- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
3417 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00003418
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003419- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
3420 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00003421
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003422- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00003423 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
3424
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003425- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
3426 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00003427
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003428- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
3429 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00003430
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003431- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003432 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
3433 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00003434
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003435- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
3436 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
3437 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
3438 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00003439
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003440- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
3441 parameter was set.
3442
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00003443- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
3444 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00003445 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00003446
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00003447- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003448 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
3449 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00003450
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00003451- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
3452 in sharedctypes.py.
3453
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00003454- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
3455 __getattr__.
3456
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003457- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
3458 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00003459
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003460- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00003461 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
3462
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003463- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00003464
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00003465- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
3466
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00003467- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003468 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
3469 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00003470 Jacques Frechet.
3471
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00003472- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
3473
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003474- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00003475 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
3476
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00003477- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003478 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
3479 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00003480
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003481- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
3482 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00003483
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003484- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
3485 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00003486
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00003487- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
3488 the function is not a generator.
3489
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003490- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
3491 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00003492
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003493- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
3494 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00003495
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003496- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
3497 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00003498
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003499- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
3500 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00003501
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00003502- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
3503
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00003504- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
3505
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003506- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
3507 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00003508
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003509- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
3510 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00003511
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00003512- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
3513 Gabriel Genellina.
3514
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00003515- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
3516
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00003517- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
3518
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003519- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00003520
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003521- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
3522 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
3523 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00003524
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003525- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
3526 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003527 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
3528
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003529- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
3530 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
3531 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003532
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003533- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
3534 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
3535 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
3536 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
3537 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003538
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003539- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
3540 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003541
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00003542- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
3543 when given an unicode string.
3544
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00003545- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
3546
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003547- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
3548 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
3549 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00003550
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003551- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
3552 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00003553
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003554- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00003555
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003556- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00003557 statements.
3558
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00003559- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
3560 not a malformed option.
3561
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003562- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
3563 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00003564
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00003565- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
3566 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
3567 Content-Disposition headers.
3568
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00003569- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003570 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
3571 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
3572 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
3573 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00003574
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00003575- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
3576 exception.
3577
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003578- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
3579 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00003580
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00003581- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
3582
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00003583- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
3584
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00003585- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
3586 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
3587
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00003588- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
3589 and then remove it.
3590
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00003591- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
3592
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00003593- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
3594 debugging.
3595
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00003596- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
3597 inspect.getargvalues.
3598
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00003599- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
3600
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00003601- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
3602 to claiming it is Mature.
3603
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00003604- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
3605 when protocol 0 is used.
3606
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00003607- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
3608 to be consistent with Apple tools.
3609
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00003610- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003611 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00003612
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00003613- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
3614
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003615- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00003616 module.
3617
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003618- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
3619 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00003620
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003621- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00003622
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003623- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00003624
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00003625- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003626 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00003627
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00003628- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003629 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
3630 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00003631
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00003632- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
3633 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
3634
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003635- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
3636 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00003637
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00003638- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
3639 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
3640 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
3641
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00003642- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
3643
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00003644Tools/Demos
3645-----------
3646
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003647- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00003648
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003649- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00003650
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00003651Build
3652-----
3653
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003654- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
3655 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
3656 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00003657
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003658- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
3659 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
3660 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003661
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003662- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00003663
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00003664- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
3665
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003666- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003667 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00003668
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003669- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003670 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00003671
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003672- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
3673 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00003674
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00003675- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
3676
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00003677- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
3678
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003679- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
3680 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00003681
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00003682- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00003683 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00003684
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00003685- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
3686
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00003687- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
3688
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00003689- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
3690
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00003691- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
3692
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003693- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00003694
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00003695- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
3696
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00003697- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
3698
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00003699- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
3700
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00003701- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
3702
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00003703- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
3704
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00003705- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
3706
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00003707- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
3708
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003709- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00003710
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00003711- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
3712
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00003713Documentation
3714-------------
3715
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003716- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
3717 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00003718
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003719- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
3720 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00003721
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00003722C-API
3723-----
3724
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00003725- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
3726
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003727- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
3728 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00003729
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003730- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
3731 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00003732
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003733- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
3734 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00003735
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003736- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
3737 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00003738
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00003739- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
3740 PyCode_Addr2Line().
3741
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00003742- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
3743 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
3744
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00003745- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
3746 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
3747
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00003748- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
3749
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003750- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
3751 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00003752
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00003753- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
3754
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003755- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
3756 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00003757
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00003758- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
3759 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003760
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003761- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00003762 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00003763
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00003764Extension Modules
3765-----------------
3766
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00003767- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
3768
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00003769- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
3770
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003771- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00003772
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00003773- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003774 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00003775
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003776- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
3777 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00003778
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003779- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
3780 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00003781
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00003782- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
3783 module.
3784
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00003785- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
3786
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00003787- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00003788 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00003789
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003790- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
3791 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
3792 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00003793
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003794- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
3795 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
3796 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00003797
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003798- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
3799 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
3800 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00003801
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003802 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
3803 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00003804
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003805 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
3806 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
3807 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
3808 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
3809 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
3810 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
3811 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00003812
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003813 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
3814 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
3815 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00003816
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00003817- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
3818
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003819- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
3820 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00003821
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00003822- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
3823 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00003824 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00003825
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00003826- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00003827
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00003828- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
3829
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00003830- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
3831
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00003832- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
3833
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00003834- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
3835
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00003836- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
3837 OpenBSD.
3838
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00003839- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
3840
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00003841- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
3842
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00003843- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
3844
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00003845Tests
3846-----
3847
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003848- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
3849 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
3850 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00003851
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003852- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
3853 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00003854
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003855- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
3856 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00003857
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00003858- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
3859
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00003860- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
3861 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
3862
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00003863- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003864 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
3865 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
3866 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00003867
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003868- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
3869 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00003870
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00003871- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
3872 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
3873
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00003874- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
3875 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
3876 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00003877
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00003878- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
3879
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00003880- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
3881 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
3882
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00003883- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
3884 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003885 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
3886 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00003887
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00003888- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
3889 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
3890
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003891- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
3892 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
3893 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
3894 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
3895 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00003896
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00003897- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
3898
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00003899- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
3900
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00003901- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
3902
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003903- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
3904 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
3905 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00003906
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00003907- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
3908
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00003909- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
3910 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
3911 incorrectly on __exit__.
3912
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00003913- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
3914
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00003915Misc
3916----
3917
3918- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
3919
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003920
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003921What's New in Python 2.6 final
3922==============================
3923
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00003924*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003925
3926Core and Builtins
3927-----------------
3928
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00003929- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
3930 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
3931
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00003932- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
3933 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
3934
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00003935- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
3936
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003937Library
3938-------
3939
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00003940- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
3941 true singleton object.
3942
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00003943- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
3944 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
3945 into a float.
3946
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00003947- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
3948
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00003949- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
3950 sizes.
3951
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00003952- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
3953
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00003954- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
3955 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
3956
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00003957Build
3958-----
3959
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00003960- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
3961 installer.
3962
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00003963- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
3964
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003965
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003966What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
3967=============================================
3968
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00003969*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003970
3971Core and Builtins
3972-----------------
3973
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00003974Extension Modules
3975-----------------
3976
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00003977- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
3978 segfault as a result.
3979
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00003980- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
3981 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003982
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00003983Tools/Demos
3984-----------
3985
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00003986- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00003987 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
3988 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
3989 are caught and silenced.
3990
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00003991Build
3992-----
3993
3994- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
3995 C runtime in the Windows installer.
3996
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003997
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003998What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
3999=============================================
4000
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00004001*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004002
4003Core and Builtins
4004-----------------
4005
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00004006- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
4007
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00004008- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
4009 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
4010 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
4011 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
4012 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
4013 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
4014 64bit values.
4015
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00004016- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
4017 error.
4018
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00004019- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
4020 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
4021 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
4022 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
4023
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00004024- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
4025 a unicode argument.
4026
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00004027- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
4028
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00004029- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00004030 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00004031 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
4032
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00004033- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00004034 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
4035 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
4036 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
4037 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
4038 type object.
4039
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00004040- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
4041
4042- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
4043
4044- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
4045
4046- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
4047
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00004048- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
4049 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
4050
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00004051- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
4052 ``__delslice__``.
4053
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00004054- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
4055 library targets in the Makefile.
4056
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00004057- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
4058 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
4059 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
4060
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00004061C-API
4062-----
4063
4064- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
4065
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004066Library
4067-------
4068
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00004069- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
4070 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
4071
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00004072- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
4073
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00004074- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
4075
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00004076- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
4077 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
4078 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
4079
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00004080- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
4081
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00004082- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00004083 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
4084
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00004085- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
4086
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00004087- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
4088
4089- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00004090
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00004091- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
4092 its symbolic link.
4093
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00004094- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
4095
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004096- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00004097 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
4098 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
4099
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00004100- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
4101 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
4102
4103- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00004104
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00004105- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
4106 path to the Python binary.
4107
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004108- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00004109 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
4110 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
4111 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
4112
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00004113- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
4114
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00004115- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
4116
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00004117- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
4118
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00004119- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
4120
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00004121- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
4122 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00004123
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00004124- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
4125 non-integer floating point number.
4126
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00004127- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00004128 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
4129
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00004130Extension Modules
4131-----------------
4132
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00004133- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
4134 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
4135
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00004136- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
4137 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
4138 without limit.
4139
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00004140- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
4141 exploitation of poor argument checking.
4142
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00004143- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
4144
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00004145- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
4146 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
4147
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00004148- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
4149 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
4150 threads/processes.
4151
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00004152Tests
4153-----
4154
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00004155- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
4156 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
4157 that expected warning messages are being reported.
4158
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00004159- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
4160
4161- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00004162
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00004163Build
4164-----
4165
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00004166- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
4167
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00004168- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
4169 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
4170
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00004171- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
4172
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00004173- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00004174 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00004175
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004176
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004177What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
4178================================
4179
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00004180*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004181
4182Core and Builtins
4183-----------------
4184
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00004185- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
4186 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
4187 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
4188 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
4189 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
4190 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
4191 default.
4192
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00004193- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
4194 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
4195
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00004196- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
4197 value again.
4198
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00004199- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
4200 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
4201 and introducing s*.
4202
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00004203- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
4204 object was stored in the freelist.
4205
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00004206- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
4207 ValueError consistently across platforms.
4208
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00004209- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
4210 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
4211 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
4212
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00004213- Apply security patches from Apple.
4214
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00004215- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
4216 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
4217
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00004218- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
4219 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
4220
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00004221- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
4222 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
4223 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
4224
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00004225- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
4226 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
4227 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
4228 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
4229 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
4230 failed have been fixed.
4231
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004232Library
4233-------
4234
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00004235- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
4236
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00004237- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
4238 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
4239
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00004240- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
4241 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
4242 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
4243
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00004244- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
4245 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
4246 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
4247 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
4248 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
4249 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
4250
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00004251- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
4252 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
4253
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00004254- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
4255
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00004256- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
4257
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00004258- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
4259
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00004260- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
4261 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
4262
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00004263- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00004264 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
4265
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004266- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00004267 in a redirect.
4268
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00004269- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00004270 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00004271
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00004272- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
4273 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
4274
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00004275- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
4276 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
4277 regular expression.
4278
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00004279- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
4280 thread-safe.
4281
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00004282- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
4283 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
4284 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
4285
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00004286- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
4287
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00004288- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
4289 menu entries were not deleted.
4290
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00004291- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
4292 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
4293
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00004294- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
4295 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
4296
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00004297- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
4298 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
4299 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
4300
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00004301- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
4302 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
4303 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
4304
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00004305- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
4306 the reload() built-in has been removed.
4307
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00004308- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00004309 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00004310 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
4311 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
4312 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
4313 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
4314 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00004315
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00004316- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
4317 raised an AttributeError.
4318
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00004319- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00004320 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
4321 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00004322
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00004323- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
4324 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
4325
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004326- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00004327
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004328- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00004329 on a closed shelf.
4330
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00004331- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
4332
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004333- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
4334
4335- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
4336 invalid arguments.
4337
4338- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
4339 with None arguments.
4340
4341- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
4342 configuration files.
4343
4344- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
4345
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00004346- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
4347 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
4348 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
4349
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00004350- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
4351 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
4352 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
4353
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00004354Build
4355-----
4356
4357- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
4358
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00004359Documentation
4360-------------
4361
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00004362- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
4363 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
4364
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00004365- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
4366 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
4367 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
4368 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
4369
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004370
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00004371What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
4372================================
4373
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004374*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
4375
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00004376Core and Builtins
4377-----------------
4378
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00004379- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
4380 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
4381 an integer using operator.index().
4382
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00004383- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
4384 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
4385
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00004386- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
4387 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
4388
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00004389- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
4390 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
4391 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
4392
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00004393- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
4394 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
4395 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
4396 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
4397 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
4398 level.
4399
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00004400- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
4401 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
4402 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
4403 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
4404 all imports from that module to fail.
4405
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00004406- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
4407 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
4408 new-style classes.
4409
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00004410- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
4411 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
4412 another file in sys.stdout.
4413
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00004414- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
4415 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
4416 another thread's dictionary.
4417
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00004418- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
4419 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
4420 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
4421 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
4422 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
4423 10, -1).
4424
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00004425- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
4426 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
4427 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00004428
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00004429- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
4430 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
4431 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00004432
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00004433Library
4434-------
4435
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00004436- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
4437 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
4438 error when they failed.
4439
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00004440- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
4441
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00004442- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
4443
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00004444- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
4445
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00004446- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
4447
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00004448- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
4449 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
4450
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00004451- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00004452
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00004453- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
4454 a valid dlerror() message.
4455
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00004456- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
4457 incomplete structure was created.
4458
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00004459- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
4460
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00004461- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
4462
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004463- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00004464
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00004465- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
4466 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004467 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00004468 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
4469 merged into trunk.
4470
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00004471- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
4472
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00004473- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
4474
4475- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
4476
4477- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
4478 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00004479 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00004480
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00004481- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004482 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00004483
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00004484- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
4485 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
4486
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00004487- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
4488 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
4489
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00004490- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
4491 interrupted by a signal.
4492
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004493- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00004494 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
4495 Prevents a deadlock.
4496
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00004497- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
4498 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
4499 default https port (443).
4500
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00004501- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
4502 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
4503 if the new process uses the threading module.
4504
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00004505Tests
4506-----
4507
4508- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
4509 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
4510 have been added to test_warnings.
4511
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00004512Build
4513-----
4514
4515- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
4516
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00004517
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00004518Documentation
4519-------------
4520
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00004521- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00004522 Python 3.0.
4523
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00004524- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
4525
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00004526- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
4527 Python 3.0.
4528
4529- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
4530 Python 3.0.
4531
4532
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004533What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
4534================================
4535
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00004536*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004537
4538Core and Builtins
4539-----------------
4540
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00004541- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
4542 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
4543 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
4544 bus error.
4545
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00004546- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
4547 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
4548
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00004549- Add future_builtins.ascii().
4550
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00004551- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00004552 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00004553
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00004554- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
4555
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00004556- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
4557
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00004558- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
4559
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00004560- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
4561
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004562- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
4563 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
4564 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
4565 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00004566
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00004567- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
4568
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004569- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
4570 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00004571
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004572- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
4573 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00004574
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004575- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
4576 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
4577 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00004578
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00004579- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
4580 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
4581 can't be triggered from Python code.
4582
4583
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004584Extension Modules
4585-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00004586- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004587
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00004588- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
4589
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00004590- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00004591
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00004592- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
4593 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
4594
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00004595- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
4596 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
4597
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00004598- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
4599 weakref.proxy.
4600
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004601- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
4602 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00004603
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00004604- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00004605
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00004606- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00004607 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
4608 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00004609
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004610- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
4611 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
4612 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00004613
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00004614- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
4615 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
4616 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
4617
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004618- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00004619
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00004620- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00004621
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004622Library
4623-------
4624
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00004625- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
4626 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
4627
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00004628- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
4629
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00004630- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
4631 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
4632 sense).
4633
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00004634- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
4635
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00004636- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
4637 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
4638 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
4639 the patch.
4640
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00004641- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
4642 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
4643 the patch).
4644
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00004645- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
4646 os.uname exists.
4647
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00004648- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
4649
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00004650- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
4651
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00004652- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
4653 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
4654 pointer-like object.
4655
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00004656- Added the ast module.
4657
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004658- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00004659
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00004660- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
4661 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
4662
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00004663- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
4664 to errno.
4665
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004666- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00004667
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00004668- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00004669 msilib.Record objects.
4670
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00004671- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
4672 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
4673
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00004674- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
4675 in Python 3.0.
4676
4677- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
4678 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00004679
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00004680- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
4681 False boolean value now.
4682
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00004683- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
4684 transfers.
4685
4686- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
4687 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00004688
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00004689- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
4690 when the TarFile is closed.
4691
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00004692- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
4693 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
4694 an exception.
4695
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00004696- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
4697 otherwise be produced.
4698
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00004699- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
4700 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
4701
4702- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
4703 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
4704
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00004705- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
4706 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
4707 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
4708
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00004709- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
4710
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004711- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00004712 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
4713 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
4714 'm' or 'c'.
4715
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00004716- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4717
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004718- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
4719 removal in Python 3.0.
4720
4721- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4722 3.0.
4723
4724- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4725 3.0.
4726
4727- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4728 3.0.
4729
4730- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00004731 Python 3.0.
4732
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00004733- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
4734 Python 3.0.
4735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004736- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4737 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00004738
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004739- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4740 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00004741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004742- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4743 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00004744
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004745- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4746 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00004747
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004748- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00004749 Python 3.0.
4750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004751- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4752 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00004753
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004754- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4755 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00004756
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004757- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4758 3.0.
4759
4760- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
4761 removal in Python 3.0.
4762
4763- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4764 3.0.
4765
4766- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4767 3.0.
4768
4769- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
4770 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00004771
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004772- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
4773 removal in Python 3.0.
4774
4775- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00004776 Python 3.0.
4777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004778- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4779 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00004780
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00004781- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
4782 Python 3.0.
4783
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00004784- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
4785 Python 3.0.
4786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004787- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00004788
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00004789- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4790
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00004791- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4792
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00004793- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
4794
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00004795- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4796
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004797- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
4798 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
4799 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00004800
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004801- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
4802 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00004803
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00004804- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4805
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004806- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
4807 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00004808
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00004809- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4810
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00004811- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4812
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00004813- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4814
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00004815- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4816
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00004817- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004819- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
4820 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00004821
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00004822- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4823
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00004824- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4825
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00004826- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
4827 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
4828 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
4829 OverflowError.
4830
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00004831- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4832
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004833- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
4834 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00004835
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00004836- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4837
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00004838- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4839
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00004840- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4841
4842- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00004843
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004844- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4845
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00004846- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
4847
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00004848- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
4849
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00004850- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00004851
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004852- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
4853 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00004854
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00004855- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00004856 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
4857 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
4858 of Python.
4859
4860- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
4861 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
4862
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00004863- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
4864 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00004865
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004866Build
4867-----
4868
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00004869- 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 +00004870
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00004871- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
4872
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00004873- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
4874
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00004875- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
4876 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004877 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00004878
4879 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
4880
4881 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
4882
4883 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
4884
4885 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
4886
4887 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
4888
4889 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
4890
4891
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00004892C API
4893-----
4894
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00004895- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
4896
4897- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00004898
4899- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
4900 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
4901 PyString names.
4902
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00004903
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004904What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00004905=================================
4906
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00004907*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00004908
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00004909Core and builtins
4910-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00004911
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00004912- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
4913
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004914- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
4915 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00004916
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004917- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
4918 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00004919
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004920- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00004921
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00004922Extension Modules
4923-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004924
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004925- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
4926 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00004927
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00004928- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
4929
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004930- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
4931 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00004932
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004933- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
4934 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00004935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004936- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
4937 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00004938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004939- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
4940 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
4941 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
4942 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
4943 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
4944 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
4945 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
4946 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00004947
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004948Library
4949-------
4950
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00004951- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4952
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004953- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
4954 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00004955
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00004956- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
4957
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004958- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
4959 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00004960
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00004961- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
4962 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
4963 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
4964
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00004965- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004966 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00004967
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00004968- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00004969 reference to themselves.
4970
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00004971- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
4972 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
4973 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00004974
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00004975- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
4976 1900-01-01.
4977
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00004978- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
4979 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
4980
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00004981- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
4982 now implemented in C for better performance.
4983
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004984- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
4985 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
4986 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00004987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004988- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00004989 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
4990 build documentation for more information.
4991
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00004992- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
4993 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
4994 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
4995 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
4996
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00004997- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
4998 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
4999 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
5000
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005001- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
5002 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
5003 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
5004 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00005005
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005006Tests
5007-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00005008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005009- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
5010 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
5011 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
5012 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
5013 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
5014 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
5015 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
5016 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
5017 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
5018 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
5019 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
5020 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
5021 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
5022 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
5023 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
5024 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
5025 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
5026 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
5027 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
5028 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
5029
5030 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
5031 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
5032 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
5033 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
5034 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
5035 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
5036 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
5037 access to the underlying socket used.
5038
5039 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
5040 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
5041 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00005042
5043 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005044 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00005045 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
5046 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
5047
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005048 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
5049 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005050
5051Build
5052-----
5053
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00005054- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
5055
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00005056- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
5057 gcc is used as compiler.
5058
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00005059- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005060 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00005061
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005062C API
5063-----
5064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005065- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
5066 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
5067 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
5068 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00005069
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00005070- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00005071
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005072
5073What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
5074=================================
5075
5076*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
5077
5078Core and builtins
5079-----------------
5080
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005081- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
5082 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
5083 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00005084
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00005085- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
5086 cannot be executed.
5087
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00005088- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
5089 reference on the outer class name.
5090
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00005091- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005092 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00005093
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005094- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
5095 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00005096
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00005097- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00005098
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00005099- Added backport of bytearray type.
5100
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00005101- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
5102
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00005103- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005104 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
5105 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
5106 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
5107 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
5108 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00005109
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00005110- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
5111
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005112- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
5113 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00005114
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00005115- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00005116
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00005117- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
5118
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005119- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
5120 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00005121
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005122- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
5123 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00005124
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005125- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00005126 exception instances.
5127
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00005128- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005129 doesn't derive from BaseException.
5130
5131- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
5132 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00005133
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00005134- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
5135 memory usage in some circumstances.
5136
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005137- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
5138 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
5139 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00005140
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00005141- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
5142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005143- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00005144 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
5145 longer passed.
5146
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00005147- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
5148
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005149- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
5150 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
5151 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00005152
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005153- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
5154 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00005155
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00005156- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
5157
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00005158Extension Modules
5159-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00005160
5161- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
5162
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00005163Library
5164-------
5165
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005166- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
5167 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005168
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005169- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
5170 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
5171 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005172
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005173- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
5174 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005175
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005176- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
5177 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
5178 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00005179
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005180- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
5181 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00005182
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00005183- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
5184
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00005185- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
5186 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
5187 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
5188
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00005189- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
5190
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00005191- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
5192 advertised in the docs.
5193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005194- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00005195
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005196- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00005197
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005198- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
5199 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00005200
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00005201- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
5202 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
5203
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005204- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
5205 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00005206 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
5207 information as well.
5208
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005209- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
5210 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00005211
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005212- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
5213 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00005214
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005215- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
5216 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
5217 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00005218
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00005219- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
5220 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
5221 strftime.
5222
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00005223- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005224 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
5225 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00005226
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00005227- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
5228 correctly under win32
5229
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005230- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00005231
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00005232- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005233 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
5234 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
5235 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00005236
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00005237- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
5238 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
5239
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005240- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
5241 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00005242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005243- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
5244 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
5245 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00005246
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005247- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00005248 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
5249
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00005250- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
5251 from 't' to '?'.
5252
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00005253- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
5254 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005255 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
5256 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
5257 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00005258
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005259- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
5260 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00005261
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00005262Tests
5263-----
5264
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005265- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
5266 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00005267
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00005268- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
5269
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00005270- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
5271
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00005272- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
5273
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00005274- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
5275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005276- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
5277 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00005278
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00005279- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
5280
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005281- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00005282
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005283- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
5284 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00005285
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00005286- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
5287
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00005288- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
5289
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00005290- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
5291 permission to create files in the root directory.
5292
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00005293Build
5294-----
5295
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00005296- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
5297
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005298- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
5299 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00005300
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00005301- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00005302
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00005303C API
5304-----
5305
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005306- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005307 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
5308
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00005309
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005310What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
5311=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005312
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00005313*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005314
5315Core and builtins
5316-----------------
5317
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00005318- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00005319 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00005320
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00005321- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
5322
5323- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00005324
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005325- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005326 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00005327
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00005328- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
5329 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
5330 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
5331 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
5332 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
5333 module is:
5334 from future_builtins import hex, oct
5335
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00005336- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
5337 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
5338 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
5339 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
5340 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
5341 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
5342
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00005343- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
5344 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
5345 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
5346 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
5347 PyObject_Format().
5348
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005349- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
5350 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
5351 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00005352
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005353- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005354 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
5355 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00005356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005357- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
5358 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00005359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005360- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
5361 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
5362 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00005363
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005364- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
5365 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
5366 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00005367
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00005368- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
5369 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
5370
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005371- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005372 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00005373
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005374- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
5375 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00005376 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
5377
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005378- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
5379 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
5380 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00005381
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005382- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
5383 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00005384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005385- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
5386 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00005387
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005388- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
5389 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00005390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005391- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
5392 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00005393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005394- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
5395 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
5396 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00005397
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005398- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
5399 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
5400 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
5401 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00005402
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00005403- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
5404 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
5405 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
5406
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00005407- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00005408 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
5409 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
5410
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005411- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00005412 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
5413 support.
5414
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00005415- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
5416 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
5417
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00005418- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
5419
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005420- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00005421 added.
5422
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00005423- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
5424 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
5425
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005426- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
5427 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00005428
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005429- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
5430 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
5431 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00005432
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005433- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
5434 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00005435
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00005436- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
5437 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00005438
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00005439- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
5440
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005441- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
5442 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
5443 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00005444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005445- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
5446 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
5447 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00005448
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005449- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00005450
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005451- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
5452 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00005453
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00005454- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005455 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
5456 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00005457
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005458- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
5459 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
5460 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
5461 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00005462
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005463- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00005464
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005465- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
5466 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00005467
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005468- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
5469 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00005470
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00005471- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00005472 SystemError.
5473
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00005474- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
5475 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
5476 __package__ attribute.
5477
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005478- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
5479 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
5480 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00005481
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00005482- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
5483
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005484- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00005485 attribute of an empty cell object.
5486
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005487- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
5488 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00005489
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005490- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
5491 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
5492 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
5493 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00005494
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005495- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
5496 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
5497 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00005498
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00005499- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
5500
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00005501- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
5502
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00005503- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
5504
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005505- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005506 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
5507 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00005508
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005509- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
5510 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
5511 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
5512 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
5513 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
5514 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00005515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005516- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
5517 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
5518 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
5519 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
5520 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00005521
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005522- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
5523 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
5524 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00005525
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005526- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
5527 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00005528
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00005529- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005530 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
5531 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
5532 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
5533 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
5534 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00005535
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005536- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
5537 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00005538
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00005539- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
5540 with %G.
5541
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005542- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
5543 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00005544
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005545- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00005546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005547- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00005548
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00005549- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005550 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
5551 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00005552
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00005553- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
5554 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
5555
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00005556- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
5557 calls.
5558
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00005559- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005560 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
5561 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00005562
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00005563- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
5564
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005565- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005566 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00005567
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005568- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00005569 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
5570
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00005571- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
5572
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00005573- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
5574 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
5575 remaining characters.
5576
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00005577- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
5578 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
5579
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00005580- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
5581
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00005582- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
5583 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
5584 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
5585 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
5586 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00005587 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
5588 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00005589
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005590- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
5591 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
5592 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
5593 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
5594 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00005595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005596- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
5597 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
5598 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00005599
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005600- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
5601 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00005602
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005603- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
5604 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
5605 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00005606
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005607- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
5608 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00005609
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00005610- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
5611
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00005612- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
5613 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
5614
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00005615- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005616 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
5617 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
5618 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00005619
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00005620- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
5621 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
5622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005623- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
5624 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00005625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005626- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
5627 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
5628 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00005629
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00005630- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005631 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
5632 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00005633
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00005634- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
5635 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005636 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
5637 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00005638
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005639- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
5640 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00005641
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005642- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
5643 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00005644
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00005645- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
5646 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
5647
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005648- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
5649 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
5650 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00005651
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005652- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
5653 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00005654
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005655- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
5656 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00005657
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005658- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
5659 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
5660 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00005661
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00005662- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
5663 frame's thread state.
5664
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005665- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
5666 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00005667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005668- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
5669 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00005670
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005671- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
5672 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00005673
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005674- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
5675 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00005676
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005677- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
5678 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00005679
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00005680- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
5681
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00005682- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
5683
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00005684- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
5685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005686- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
5687 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00005688
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005689- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00005690
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00005691- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
5692 again, no longer the posix error code.
5693
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00005694- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
5695 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
5696
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005697- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
5698 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00005699
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00005700- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
5701 embedded in the string to convert.
5702
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00005703- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
5704 recognized and rejected.
5705
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00005706- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
5707
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00005708- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
5709 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
5710 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00005711
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00005712- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
5713 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
5714
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00005715- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005716 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
5717 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00005718
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005719- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
5720 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
5721 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00005722
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00005723- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
5724
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00005725- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
5726
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00005727- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
5728
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005729- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
5730 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
5731 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00005732
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00005733- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
5734 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
5735 'exceptions'.
5736
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00005737- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
5738 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
5739
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00005740- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
5741 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
5742
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00005743- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
5744
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00005745- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
5746
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00005747- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
5748 head is the original string if sep was not found.
5749
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00005750- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005751 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
5752 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
5753 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00005754
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005755- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00005756
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005757- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
5758 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005759
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00005760- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
5761 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00005762
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005763- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00005764 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
5765 it actually exited.
5766
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005767
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005768Library
5769-------
5770
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005771- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00005772
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00005773- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
5774
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00005775- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
5776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005777- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
5778 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00005779
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005780- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00005781
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005782- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
5783 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
5784 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00005785
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005786- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
5787 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00005788
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005789- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00005790 (ignore-case)
5791
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00005792- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
5793 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
5794 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
5795 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
5796
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005797- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
5798 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00005799
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005800- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
5801 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00005802
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00005803- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
5804 pickled.
5805
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00005806- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
5807 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
5808
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00005809- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
5810 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
5811 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
5812
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005813- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
5814 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00005815
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005816- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
5817 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
5818 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00005819
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005820- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
5821 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00005822
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005823- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
5824 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00005825
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005826- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
5827 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
5828 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
5829 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00005830
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005831- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
5832 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00005833 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
5834
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00005835- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
5836
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005837- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
5838 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00005839
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005840- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00005841
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005842- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
5843 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005844
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005845- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
5846 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005847
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005848- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
5849 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005850
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005851- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
5852 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005853
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005854- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
5855 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
5856 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00005857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005858- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
5859 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00005860
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005861- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
5862 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00005863
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005864- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
5865 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00005866
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005867- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
5868 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00005869
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005870- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
5871 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00005872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005873- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
5874 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00005875
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00005876- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
5877 with extended local headers.
5878
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005879- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
5880 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00005881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005882- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00005883 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
5884 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
5885
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005886- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
5887 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00005888
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005889- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
5890 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00005891
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005892- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
5893 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00005894
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005895- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
5896 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00005897
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005898- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
5899 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00005900
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00005901- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005902 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00005903 Textbox.gather().
5904
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00005905- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
5906 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00005907 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
5908 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00005909
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00005910- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
5911 that array types do not live longer than needed.
5912
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00005913- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
5914 and when creating a recursive instance.
5915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005916- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
5917 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
5918 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00005919
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00005920- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
5921 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
5922 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
5923
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005924- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
5925 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00005926
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005927- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00005928 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
5929
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005930- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00005931 good for long regular expression matches.
5932
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005933- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
5934 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00005935
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00005936- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
5937 the current context.
5938
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00005939- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
5940 zipfile module.
5941
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00005942- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
5943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005944- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
5945 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00005946
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00005947- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
5948
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00005949- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
5950
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005951- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
5952 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00005953
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00005954- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
5955
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005956- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
5957 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00005958
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005959- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
5960 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00005961
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00005962- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
5963
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00005964- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
5965 Tcl objects.
5966
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00005967- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
5968
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005969- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
5970 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
5971 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
5972 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00005973
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005974- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
5975 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00005976
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005977- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
5978 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00005979
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005980- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
5981 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00005982
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005983- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
5984 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00005985
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00005986- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
5987 method used universal newlines.
5988
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00005989- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
5990 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
5991
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00005992- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
5993 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
5994
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00005995- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
5996 files are updated.
5997
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005998- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
5999 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00006000
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00006001- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
6002 configured with --with-system-ffi.
6003
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00006004- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00006005 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00006006
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00006007- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
6008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006009- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
6010 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
6011 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00006012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006013- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
6014 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00006015
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00006016- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00006017
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00006018- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
6019
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006020- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
6021 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00006022
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00006023- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
6024 to be orderable to properly represent them.
6025
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00006026- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
6027
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00006028- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
6029
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006030- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
6031 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
6032 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00006033
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00006034- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
6035 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
6036
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006037- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
6038 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00006039
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006040- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
6041 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00006042
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00006043- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
6044
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00006045- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
6046
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00006047- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
6048 syllables.
6049
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006050- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
6051 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00006052
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00006053- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
6054
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00006055- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
6056 represent the result in a single character.
6057
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00006058- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
6059
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00006060- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
6061
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00006062- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
6063 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
6064 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
6065
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00006066- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
6067
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006068- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
6069 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00006070
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006071- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
6072 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
6073 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00006074
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006075- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
6076 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
6077 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00006078
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00006079- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006080 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
6081 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00006082
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006083- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
6084 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00006085
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006086- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
6087 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00006088
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00006089- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6090
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00006091- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6092
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006093- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
6094 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
6095 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00006096
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00006097- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6098
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00006099- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6100
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00006101- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
6102 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
6103
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00006104- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
6105
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00006106- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
6107
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00006108- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
6109
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006110- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
6111 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00006112
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006113- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
6114 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00006115
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00006116- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
6117 the directories).
6118
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00006119- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
6120 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
6121 injecting HTML into the error page.
6122
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006123- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
6124 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00006125
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006126- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
6127 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006128
6129- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
6130
6131- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
6132
6133- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
6134 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
6135 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
6136
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00006137- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
6138 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
6139 ".cpp" too.
6140
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00006141- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006142 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
6143 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
6144 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00006145
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006146- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
6147 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00006148
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006149- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
6150 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00006151
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00006152- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
6153 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
6154 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
6155 closes patch #723312.
6156
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006157- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
6158 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00006159 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00006160
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00006161- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
6162
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00006163- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
6164 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
6165
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00006166- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
6167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006168- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
6169 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00006170 directories.
6171
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00006172- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
6173 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
6174 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
6175 trying Mozilla variants.
6176
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00006177- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
6178
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00006179- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
6180 initialization failed.
6181
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00006182- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006183 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
6184 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00006185
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006186- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
6187 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
6188 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00006189
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006190- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
6191 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00006192 correctly now.
6193
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00006194- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
6195
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006196- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
6197 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00006198
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00006199- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
6200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006201- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
6202 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
6203 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00006204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006205- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
6206 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
6207 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
6208 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00006209
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006210- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
6211 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
6212 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00006213
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00006214- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
6215 whitespace while wrapping.
6216
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00006217- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006218 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
6219 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00006220
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006221- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
6222 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
6223 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00006224
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00006225- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
6226 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
6227
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006228- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
6229 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00006230
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00006231- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
6232 concatenation in robotparser.
6233
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00006234- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006235 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
6236 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00006237
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00006238- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
6239 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
6240
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00006241- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
6242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006243- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
6244 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
6245 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00006246
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006247- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
6248 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
6249 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00006250
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006251- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
6252 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00006253 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00006254
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00006255- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
6256 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
6257
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00006258- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
6259 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
6260
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00006261- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
6262 returned string up to the first NUL character.
6263
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00006264- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
6265
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00006266- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
6267
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006268- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
6269 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
6270 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00006271
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00006272- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
6273
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006274- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
6275 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
6276 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
6277 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
6278 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
6279 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00006280
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006281- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
6282 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00006283
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00006284- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
6285 comprehensive test suite for the module.
6286
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00006287- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
6288 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
6289
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006290- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
6291 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
6292 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00006293
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006294- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00006295 in HTMLParser.
6296
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00006297- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
6298 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
6299
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00006300- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
6301
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00006302- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
6303
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00006304- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
6305
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00006306- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00006307
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00006308- Added itertools.izip_longest().
6309
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006310- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
6311 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00006312
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00006313- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
6314
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00006315- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
6316 doesn't exist.
6317
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00006318- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
6319
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00006320- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
6321
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006322- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00006323
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006324- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
6325 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00006326
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006327- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
6328 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00006329
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006330- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
6331 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00006332
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00006333- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006334 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00006335
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00006336- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
6337 iso8859_16.
6338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006339- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
6340 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
6341 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
6342 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00006343
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006344- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
6345
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00006346- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
6347 directories.
6348
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00006349- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
6350
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006351- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
6352 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00006353
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006354- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006355 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006356
6357- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006358 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006359
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006360- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006361
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006362- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
6363 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00006364
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00006365- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
6366
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00006367- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
6368 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
6369 parameterless foreign function calls work.
6370
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00006371- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
6372
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00006373- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
6374 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
6375 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
6376
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00006377- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
6378 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
6379
6380- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
6381 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
6382
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006383- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
6384 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
6385 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00006386
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006387- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
6388 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00006389
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00006390- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
6391
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006392- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
6393 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00006394
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006395- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
6396 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00006397
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006398- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
6399 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00006400
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006401- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
6402 separated lists read from logging config files.
6403
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006404- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
6405 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
6406 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006408- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
6409 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00006410
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00006411- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
6412
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006413- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
6414 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00006415
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00006416- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
6417
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00006418- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
6419
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006420- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
6421 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00006422
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00006423- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
6424 regular files.
6425
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00006426- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
6427
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006428- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
6429 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00006430
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006431- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
6432 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00006433
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00006434- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
6435 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
6436
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00006437- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
6438 file name mangling.
6439
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006440- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
6441 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00006442
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00006443- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
6444
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006445- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00006446 HTTPConnection.request().
6447
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00006448- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
6449 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
6450 objects.
6451
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006452- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
6453 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
6454 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00006455
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006456- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
6457 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
6458 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00006459
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00006460- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00006461
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00006462- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00006463
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00006464- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
6465
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00006466- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00006467 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00006468
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00006469- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
6470
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00006471- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
6472 GNU modes.
6473
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00006474- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006475 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00006476 opcode.
6477
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00006478- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
6479 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
6480 statement (bug #1586513).
6481
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00006482- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
6483 correctly.
6484
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00006485- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
6486
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006487- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
6488 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00006489
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00006490- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
6491 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
6492 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
6493
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006494- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
6495 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
6496 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00006497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006498- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
6499 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00006500
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00006501- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
6502
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00006503- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
6504
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006505- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
6506 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00006507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006508- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
6509 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00006510
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00006511- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
6512 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
6513
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00006514- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
6515 with a slash.
6516
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00006517- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
6518 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
6519
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00006520- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006521 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00006522
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00006523- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
6524 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
6525 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
6526
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006527- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
6528 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00006529
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006530- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
6531 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00006532
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006533- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
6534 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00006535
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00006536- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
6537
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00006538- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00006539 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00006540
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006541- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
6542 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00006543
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006544- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
6545 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006546
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00006547- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
6548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006549- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
6550 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00006551
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006552- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
6553 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
6554 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00006555
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006556- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
6557 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
6558 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00006559
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006560- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
6561 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
6562 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
6563 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00006564
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006565- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00006566 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
6567 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006568 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
6569 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
6570 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00006571
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006572- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
6573 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00006574
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006575Extension Modules
6576-----------------
6577
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00006578- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00006579
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00006580- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
6581
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00006582- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
6583
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00006584- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00006585
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006586- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
6587 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00006588
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006589- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
6590 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00006591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006592- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
6593 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00006594
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00006595- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
6596
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00006597- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
6598
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006599- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
6600 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00006601
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00006602- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
6603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006604- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
6605 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00006606
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00006607- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
6608
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006609- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
6610 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00006611
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006612- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00006613 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
6614 parameter.
6615
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006616- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
6617 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
6618 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
6619 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00006620
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006621- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
6622 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00006623
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006624- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
6625 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00006626
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006627- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
6628 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
6629 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00006630
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006631- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
6632 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00006633
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00006634- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
6635
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00006636- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
6637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006638- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
6639 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
6640 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00006641
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006642- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
6643 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00006644
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00006645- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
6646
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00006647- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
6648
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006649- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
6650 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
6651 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
6652 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00006653
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00006654- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
6655 get_completion_type to readline.
6656
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00006657- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
6658 structure.
6659
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00006660- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
6661
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00006662- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
6663
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00006664- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
6665 intended for RECNO databases.
6666
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00006667- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006668 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
6669 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
6670 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
6671 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
6672 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
6673 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00006674
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00006675- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
6676
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00006677- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
6678
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006679- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
6680 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
6681 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
6682 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
6683 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00006684
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00006685- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
6686 error in spite of a succesful compression.
6687
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00006688- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
6689 of Py_ssize_t.
6690
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00006691- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
6692 fractional times. With unittest.
6693
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006694- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
6695 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
6696 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00006697
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00006698- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
6699
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00006700- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
6701
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00006702- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
6703
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00006704- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
6705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006706- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006707 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00006708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006709- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
6710 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00006711
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006712- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
6713 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00006714
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00006715- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
6716 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
6717
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006718- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
6719 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
6720 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00006721
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00006722- Speed up function calls into the math module.
6723
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00006724- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
6725 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
6726 does.
6727
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00006728- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
6729
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00006730- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
6731
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00006732- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
6733
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00006734- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
6735
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00006736- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
6737 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
6738
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00006739- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
6740 datetime's strftime function.
6741
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00006742- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
6743
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00006744- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
6745
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006746- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
6747 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00006748
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00006749- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
6750
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00006751- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006752 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
6753 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00006754
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006755- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
6756 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00006757
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00006758- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006759 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
6760 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00006761 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
6762 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00006763 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00006764 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006765
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00006766- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
6767 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
6768 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
6769 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
6770
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00006771- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
6772 were transposed.
6773
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00006774- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
6775 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00006776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006777- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
6778 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
6779 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00006780
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00006781- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
6782
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00006783- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
6784
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00006785- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
6786
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00006787- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00006788
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00006789- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
6790 databases without a DBEnv.
6791
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00006792- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
6793
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006794Tests
6795-----
6796
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00006797- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00006798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006799- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
6800 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00006801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006802- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
6803 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
6804 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00006805
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00006806- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
6807 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00006808
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006809- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
6810 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00006811
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006812- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
6813 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
6814 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00006815
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00006816- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
6817
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006818- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
6819 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
6820 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00006821
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00006822- Added some tests for modulefinder.
6823
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00006824- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
6825
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00006826- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
6827 number properly.
6828
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006829- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
6830 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006831
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006832Tools
6833-----
6834
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006835- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
6836 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
6837 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006838 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00006839
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006840- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
6841 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
6842 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00006843
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00006844- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
6845 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
6846
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006847- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
6848 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006849
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006850- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
6851 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006852
6853- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006854 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
6855 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006856
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006857
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006858Documentation
6859-------------
6860
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006861- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
6862 include new optional delay argument.
6863
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006864- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
6865 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
6866 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006867
6868- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
6869 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
6870
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00006871- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
6872 Python tutorial.
6873
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00006874- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
6875
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006876- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
6877 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00006878
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00006879- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
6880 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
6881
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00006882- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
6883 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
6884
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00006885- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
6886
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00006887- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
6888 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
6889
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006890- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00006891 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
6892
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00006893- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
6894 docs.
6895
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00006896- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
6897
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00006898- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
6899 string pointed to by its parameter.
6900
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00006901- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
6902
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00006903- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006904 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
6905 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
6906 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00006907
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006908
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00006909Tools/Demos
6910-----------
6911
6912- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00006913
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00006914- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006915 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
6916 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00006917
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00006918- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
6919 file not to get reported properly.
6920
6921
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006922Build
6923-----
6924
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006925- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
6926 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
6927 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00006928
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00006929- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
6930 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
6931
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00006932- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
6933
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006934- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006936- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
6937 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
6938 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
6939 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006941- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
6942 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006943
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00006944- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
6945
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00006946- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
6947 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
6948 without this option!
6949
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00006950- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
6951
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00006952- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006953 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
6954 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
6955 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00006956
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006957- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
6958 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00006959
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00006960- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
6961
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00006962- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
6963
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006964- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
6965 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00006966
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006967- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
6968 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00006969
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00006970- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
6971 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
6972 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
6973
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00006974- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
6975 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
6976
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00006977- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
6978
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00006979- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
6980
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006981- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
6982 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00006983
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006984- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00006985 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
6986
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006987- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
6988 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00006989
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00006990- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
6991
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006992- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00006993
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00006994- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
6995
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00006996- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
6997
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00006998- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006999
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007000- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
7001 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
7002 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00007003
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007004
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007005C API
7006-----
7007
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007008- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
7009 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
7010 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
7011 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00007012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007013- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
7014 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
7015 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00007016
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007017- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00007018
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007019- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
7020 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
7021 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007022
7023- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
7024
7025- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
7026 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
7027
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007028- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
7029 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
7030 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
7031 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007032
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007033- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
7034 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007035
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007036- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
7037 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
7038 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007039
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007040- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
7041 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007042
7043- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
7044
7045- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
7046
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007047- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
7048
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007049- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
7050
7051- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
7052 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
7053
7054- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
7055 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
7056
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007057- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
7058 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
7059 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007060
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007061- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
7062 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007063
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007064- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
7065 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00007066
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007067
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00007068Windows
7069-------
7070
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007071- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
7072 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
7073 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
7074 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00007075
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007076- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
7077 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00007078
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00007079- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
7080
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00007081
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007082Mac
7083---
7084
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00007085- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7086
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00007087- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7088
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007089- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
7090 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
7091 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00007092
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00007093----
7094
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