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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Anthony Baxterb0c66302004-11-04 05:23:17 +00005(editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.)
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Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00007What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-20XX*
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12Core and Builtins
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14
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +000015- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
16 crash in GAE.
17
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +000018- Issue #7140: The __dict__ of a module should not be cleared unless the module
19 is the only object holding a reference to it.
20
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +000021- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler.
22 There should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use.
23 Patch by Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
24
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +000025- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one
26 thread, and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
27
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +000028- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
29 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
30 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
31 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
32
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +000033- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
34 assignment.
35
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +000036- Issue #5329: Fix os.popen* regression from 2.5 with commands as a
37 sequence running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone
38 and Jani Hakala.
39
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +000040- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
41 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
42
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +000043- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
44 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
45
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +000046- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +000047 take keyword arguments.
48
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +000049- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid
50 UTF-32 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
51
Mark Dickinson4b9d4732009-09-27 16:05:21 +000052- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and
53 long -> string conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +000054
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +000055- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
56
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +000057- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
58 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
59
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +000060- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
61
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +000062- classmethod no longer checks if its argument is callable.
63
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +000064- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
65 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
66
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +000067- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with
68 a target of tuple unpacking.
69
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +000070- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
71
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +000072- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
73
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +000074- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
75 occurred in the argument chain.
76
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +000077- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
78
79- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +000080 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
81
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +000082- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to print(), the default
83 separator and end should be unicode also.
84
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +000085- Issue #6119: Fixed a incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of builtin
86 functions and methods.
87
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +000088- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
89 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
90 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
91
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +000092- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
93
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +000094- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
95 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
96
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +000097- Removed the ipaddr module.
98
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +000099- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
100 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
101
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +0000102- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from compile() were being masked.
103
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +0000104- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
105 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
106
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +0000107- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
108
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +0000109- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
110 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
111
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +0000112- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Benjamin Peterson95e5ebe2009-07-12 23:56:18 +0000113 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +0000114
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +0000115- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
116 function with __func__.
117
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +0000118- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
119 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +0000120
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +0000121- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
122 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
123
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +0000124- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
125 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
126 and imaginary literals.
127
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +0000128- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
129
Benjamin Peterson0c3b4c62009-05-16 23:34:19 +0000130- __instancecheck__ and __subclasscheck__ are now completely ignored on classic
131 classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +0000132
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +0000133- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
134
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +0000135- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
136 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
137 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
138 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
139 didn't match that of float('-nan').
140
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +0000141- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
142 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
143 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
144 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
145 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
146 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
147 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
148 the same way.
149
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +0000150- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
151 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
152 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
153
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +0000154- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
155 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
156
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000157- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +0000158 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
159
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +0000160- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
161 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
162
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +0000163- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
164 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
165
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +0000166- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
167 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
168
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +0000169- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
170 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
171
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +0000172- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
173
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +0000174- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
175 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
176
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +0000177- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
178 floats, ints, and longs.
179
180- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles
181 leading zero formatting poorly.
182
183- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if
184 we're using no type code and we have an exponent.
185
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +0000186- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions
187 correctly rounded.
188
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +0000189- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
190 some builtin types.
191
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +0000192- Issue #1869: fix a couple of minor round() issues. round(5e15+1)
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +0000193 was giving 5e15+2; round(-0.0) was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +0000194
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +0000195- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
196
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +0000197- Issue #5704: the "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
198
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +0000199- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
200 its clarity and its speed.
201
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +0000202- Issue #2396: the memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
203
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +0000204- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
205 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
206
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +0000207- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
208
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +0000209- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
210 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
211
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +0000212- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
213 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
214 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
215 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
216
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +0000217- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
218 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
219 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
220
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +0000221- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
222 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
223 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
224 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
225 default. Add sys.long_info structseq to provide information about
226 the internal format.
227
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +0000228- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
229 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
230
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +0000231- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
232 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
233 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
234
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +0000235- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
236 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
237
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +0000238- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for warnings.showwarning() a
239 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
240
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +0000241- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
242 used when using str.format() with str, unicode, long, int, and
243 float arguments.
244
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +0000245- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division
246 for ints and longs.
247
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +0000248- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average
249 saving is 2 bytes per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long
250 on a 64-bit system.
251
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +0000252- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
253 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
254
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +0000255- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
256 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
257
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +0000258- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
259
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000260- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +0000261 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
262 zip(), and bytearray().
263
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +0000264- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
265 functions.
266
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +0000267- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
268 OSError.
269
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +0000270- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
271
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +0000272- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
273 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
274 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
275
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +0000276- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
277 __next__ method.
278
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +0000279- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
280
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +0000281- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
282
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000283- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
284 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
285 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +0000286 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000287 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
288
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +0000289- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
290
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +0000291- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
292 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
293 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
294 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
295 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
296
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +0000297- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
298
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +0000299- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
300 file with `str' filename on Windows.
301
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +0000302- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
303 did not get collected.
304
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +0000305- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
306 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
307
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +0000308- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
309 directory on POSIX systems.
310
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +0000311- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
312 systems.
313
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +0000314- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
315 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
316
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +0000317- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
318 fail.
319
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +0000320- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
321 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
322 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
323
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +0000324- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
325
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +0000326- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions.
327 Original patch by Neal Norwitz.
328
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +0000329- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
330 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
331
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +0000332- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
333 exceptions.
334
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +0000335- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyStringObject)" with
336 "offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
337 str instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
338 (on average) per string allocation.
339
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +0000340- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
341 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
342 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
343
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +0000344- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__
345 instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
346
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +0000347- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
348 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
349
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +0000350- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +0000351 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
352 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
353 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
354
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +0000355- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
356 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
357
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +0000358- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the imageop.rgb2rgb8() function.
359
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +0000360- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
361
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +0000362- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
363
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +0000364- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
365 exec statement.
366
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +0000367- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
368 method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
369
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +0000370- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
371 __future__ import didn't work.
372
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000373- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +0000374 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000375
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +0000376- On windows, os.chdir given unicode was not working if GetCurrentDirectoryW
377 returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful this code path is
378 really executed because I cannot move to such directory on win2k)
379
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +0000380- Issue #4069: When set.remove(element) is used with a set element, the element
381 is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the eventual
382 KeyError would always report the empty frozenset([]) as the missing key. Now
383 it correctly refers to the initial element.
384
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +0000385- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
386 which there are buffer exports.
387
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +0000388- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
389
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +0000390- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
391
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +0000392- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
393
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +0000394- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
395 short file names.
396
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +0000397- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
398 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +0000399
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +0000400- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
401 returned them on 64bit platforms.
402
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +0000403- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
404 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
405 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
406 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
407
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +0000408- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
409 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
410
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000411Library
412-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +0000413
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +0000414- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
415
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +0000416- Add support to the `ihooks` module for relative imports.
417
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000418- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +0000419
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +0000420- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
421 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000422
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +0000423- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
424 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
425
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +0000426- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
427 is too large to fit in the current precision.
428
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000429- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +0000430 Distutils.
431
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +0000432- Issue #7031: Add TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance() methods.
433
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +0000434- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an `array.array` to
435 `httplib.HTTPConnection.send`. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
436
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +0000437- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX
438 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
439
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +0000440- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
441
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +0000442- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
443
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +0000444- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
445 does now always result in NULL.
446
447- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize
448 correctly with base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +0000449
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +0000450- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing
451 debug message.
452
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +0000453- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
454
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +0000455- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
456
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +0000457- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
458 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
459 Michael Haubenwallner.
460
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +0000461- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
462 instances.
463
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +0000464- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
465 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
466 in long(Decimal('nan')).
467
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +0000468- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
469 with no type specifier.
470
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +0000471- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder revers to non-existing version.plist
472
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +0000473- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
474 repeatedly concatenating strings in httplib's
475 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
476 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
477
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +0000478- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
479 as documented.
480
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +0000481- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
482 names in the webbrowser module.
483
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +0000484- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
485
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +0000486- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
487 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
488
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +0000489- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
490
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +0000491- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
492
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +0000493- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
494
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +0000495- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
496
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +0000497- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
498
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +0000499- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
500 ScrolledText.
501
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +0000502- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
503
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +0000504- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
505 the xview* and yview* methods.
506
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +0000507- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
508 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
509 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
510 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
511
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +0000512- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
513 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
514
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +0000515- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
516 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
517 The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
518
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +0000519- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
520 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
521 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
522
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +0000523- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
524 opening an empty or very small file.
525
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +0000526- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
527 containing incomplete data.
528
529- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +0000530 behavior is similar when used with -O.
531
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +0000532- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
533
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +0000534- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
535 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
536 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
537
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +0000538- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +0000539
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +0000540- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
541 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
542 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
543 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
544
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +0000545- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
546
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000547- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
548
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +0000549- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
550 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
551
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000552- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +0000553
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000554- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +0000555 attribute.
556
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +0000557- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
558
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +0000559- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
560 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
561
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +0000562- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
563
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000564- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +0000565 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
566 descriptor errors
567
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000568- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +0000569 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
570
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +0000571- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
572
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +0000573- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated
574 a 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
575 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
576
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +0000577- Issue #6314: logging.basicConfig() performs extra checks on the "level"
578 argument.
579
580- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +0000581 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
582
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +0000583- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
584
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +0000585- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
586
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +0000587- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
588
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +0000589- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
590 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
591
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +0000592- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when annonymous.
593 (On Unix)
594
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +0000595- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
596 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
597 ``io`` module.
598
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +0000599- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
600
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000601- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
602 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
603
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +0000604- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
605
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +0000606- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
607 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
608 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
609
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +0000610- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
611
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +0000612- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
613 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
614
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +0000615- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
616
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +0000617- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
618 whitespace.
619
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +0000620- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
621 argument to the 'help' function.
622
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +0000623- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
624 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
625
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +0000626- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
627 the directory already exists.
628
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +0000629- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
630 specific Python version.
631
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +0000632- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
633 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
634 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
635
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +0000636- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
637 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000638
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +0000639- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
640 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
641 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
642
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +0000643- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
644 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
645
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000646- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +0000647 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
648
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +0000649- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
650
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +0000651- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
652 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
653
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000654- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +0000655 subcommand.
656
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +0000657- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
658 deepcopy()ing.
659
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +0000660- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
661
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +0000662- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
663
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +0000664- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
665
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +0000666- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
667 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
668
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +0000669- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
670 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
671
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +0000672- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
673 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
674
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +0000675- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
676 for old-style extensions.
677
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000678- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
679 trying to print a traceback.
680
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +0000681- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
682
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000683- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +0000684 ld is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
685
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +0000686- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
687 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
688 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
689 Cournapeau.
690
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +0000691- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
692 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
693
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +0000694- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
695 return directories.
696
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +0000697- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
698
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +0000699- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
700 looking for files given by a relative filename.
701
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +0000702- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
703 extracting a file to the root directory.
704
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +0000705- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
706
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +0000707- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
708 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
709 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
710
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +0000711- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
712 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
713
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +0000714- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
715 Contributed by Google.
716
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +0000717- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
718
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000719- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +0000720 anymore.
721
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +0000722- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
723
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +0000724- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
725 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
726 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
727
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +0000728- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
729 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
730 initialized before.
731
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +0000732- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
733 names which should not be exported.
734
735- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +0000736 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
737
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +0000738- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
739
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +0000740- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
741 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
742
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +0000743- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
744
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +0000745- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
746 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
747 instances.
748
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +0000749- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
750 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
751 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
752
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +0000753- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
754
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000755- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
756
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +0000757- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
758 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
759 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
760 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
761 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
762
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +0000763- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
764
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +0000765- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
766 a value in SafeConfigParser.
767
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +0000768- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
769
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000770- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +0000771 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
772
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +0000773- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are
774 now collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
775
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +0000776- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
777 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
778
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +0000779- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
780 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
781
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000782- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +0000783
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000784- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +0000785
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000786- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +0000787
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000788- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +0000789
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000790- Issue #1726172: fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +0000791
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000792- Issue #2625: added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +0000793 mailbox.MH.get_message().
794
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000795- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to mulitiprocessing.manager
Andrew M. Kuchling59631852009-04-09 11:23:36 +0000796 so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +0000797
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000798- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of the
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +0000799 object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added docs
800 to note the limitation
801
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000802- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +0000803 of the equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000804
805- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +0000806 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000807
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +0000808- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were added.
809 addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
810 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
811 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
812
813- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
814 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000815
816- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +0000817 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000818
819- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +0000820 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +0000821
822- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
823 called immediately before and after a test run.
824
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +0000825- Issue #5663: better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
826 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
827 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
828 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000829
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +0000830- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing
831
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +0000832- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
833 printing out values.
834
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +0000835- Issue #4572: added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
836
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +0000837- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
838 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
839 threads.
840
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +0000841- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
842
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +0000843- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
844
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +0000845- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
846 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
847 that it was failing to do localization.
848
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +0000849- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
850 Brandl.
851
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +0000852- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
853 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
854
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +0000855- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
856 with the threading module.
857
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +0000858- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
859
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +0000860- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
861
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +0000862- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
863 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
864
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000865- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +0000866 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
867 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
868
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +0000869- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not
870 defined (part of issue #5035).
871
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +0000872- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
873 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
874 output compared to previous Python versions.
875
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +0000876- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
877
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +0000878- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
879 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using
880 a with statement.
881
882- The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences in lists,
883 tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and comparison
884 specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error messages
885 actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google. [Issue #2578]
886
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +0000887- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
888 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
889 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
890 partial bzip2 compressed data.
891
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +0000892- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
893 even if an exception occurs.
894
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +0000895- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
896 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
897
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +0000898- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
899 specifier to Decimal.__format__
900
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +0000901- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
902 '>' alignment characters.
903
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +0000904- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
905 character.
906
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +0000907- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
908 Tim Golden.
909
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +0000910- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
911
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +0000912- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
913 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
914 window flashing.
915
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +0000916- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
917 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
918 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
919
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +0000920- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
921
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +0000922- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
923 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
924
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +0000925- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
926
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +0000927- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
928
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +0000929- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
930
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +0000931- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
932
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +0000933- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
934
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +0000935- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
936 ready received.
937
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +0000938- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
939 import guess_extension`` was used.
940
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +0000941- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
942 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
943
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +0000944- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
945 overrun.
946
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +0000947- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
948 bdist_rpm command.
949
950- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
951
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +0000952- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
953
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +0000954- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
955 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
956
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +0000957- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
958 in Distutils tests.
959
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +0000960- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
961 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000962
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +0000963- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
964 The file was resized to wrong size.
965
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +0000966- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
967
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +0000968- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +0000969 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
970
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +0000971- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +0000972 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
973
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +0000974- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
975 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
976
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +0000977- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
978
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +0000979- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on
980 LP64 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
981
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +0000982- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
983 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
984
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +0000985- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
986 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
987
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +0000988- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
989 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
990 ctime of the files involved.
991
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +0000992- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
993 deadlock.
994
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +0000995- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
996 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
997 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
998
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +0000999- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
1000
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001001- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case.
1002 This is a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
1003
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00001004- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
1005 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
1006
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00001007- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
1008 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
Nick Coghlanc3623b12009-02-08 01:46:01 +00001009 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
1010 Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00001011
Guilherme Polo363161a2009-02-06 22:48:07 +00001012- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
1013 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
1014 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
1015 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00001016
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001017- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00001018 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
1019
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00001020- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
1021 Ross Light.
1022
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00001023- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
1024 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
1025
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001026- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00001027 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
1028
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00001029- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
1030
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00001031- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
1032 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
1033 "src.new").
1034
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001035- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00001036 Iterator and MutableSet.
1037
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00001038- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
1039
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001040- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00001041 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
1042
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00001043- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
1044 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
1045
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00001046- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
1047 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
1048
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00001049- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
1050
Raymond Hettingerd081abc2009-01-27 02:58:49 +00001051- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
1052 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00001053
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001054- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00001055 allowed non-integer arguments.
1056
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00001057- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
1058 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
1059 examples.
1060
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00001061- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
1062 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
1063
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00001064- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
1065 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
1066
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00001067- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
1068 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
1069
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001070- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00001071 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
1072 be disabled, and not compiled.
1073
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00001074- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
1075 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
1076 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
1077 traditional 2.x file object.
1078
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001079- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
1080 parameter was set.
1081
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001082- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
1083 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00001084 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001085
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00001086- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
1087 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
1088 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
1089
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00001090- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
1091 in sharedctypes.py.
1092
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00001093- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
1094 __getattr__.
1095
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00001096- Issue #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
1097 opened with other applications.
1098
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00001099- Issue #1162154: inspect.getmembers() now skips attributes that raise
1100 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
1101
1102- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00001103 counting.
1104
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00001105- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
1106
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00001107- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
1108 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
1109 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
1110 Jacques Frechet.
1111
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00001112- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
1113
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001114- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00001115 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
1116
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00001117- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
1118 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been
1119 deprecated for removal in 3.x
1120
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00001121- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
1122 to the decimal module.
1123
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00001124- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
1125 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
1126
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00001127- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
1128 the function is not a generator.
1129
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001130- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
1131 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00001132
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001133- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00001134 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
1135
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001136- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
1137 cast as floats.
1138
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001139- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001140 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
1141
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00001142- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
1143
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00001144- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
1145
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00001146- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
1147 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
1148
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00001149- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
1150 works as expected in the interactive environment.
1151
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00001152- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
1153 Gabriel Genellina.
1154
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00001155- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
1156
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00001157- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
1158
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00001159- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
1160 handling.
1161
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00001162- Issue #4574: fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
1163 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16)
1164 and gets split on a chunk boundary.
1165
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00001166- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
1167 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
1168 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
1169
1170- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
1171 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
1172 Alexander Belopolsky.
1173
1174- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
1175 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
1176 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
1177 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
1178 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
1179 Alexander Belopolsky.
1180
1181- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
1182 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
1183 Alexander Belopolsky.
1184
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00001185- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
1186 when given an unicode string.
1187
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00001188- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
1189
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00001190- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
1191 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
1192 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
1193
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00001194- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the
1195 --dry-run option.
1196
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00001197- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
1198 libs.
1199
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00001200- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
1201 statements.
1202
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00001203- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
1204 not a malformed option.
1205
Gregory P. Smith26576802008-12-05 02:27:01 +00001206- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00001207 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
1208
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00001209- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
1210 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
1211 Content-Disposition headers.
1212
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00001213- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
1214 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
1215 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
1216 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
1217 doesn't configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00001218
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00001219- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
1220 exception.
1221
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00001222- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if
1223 the ctypes module is not present.
1224
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00001225- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
1226
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00001227- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
1228
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00001229- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
1230 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
1231
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00001232- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
1233 and then remove it.
1234
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00001235- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
1236
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00001237- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
1238 debugging.
1239
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00001240- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
1241 inspect.getargvalues.
1242
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00001243- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
1244
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00001245- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
1246 to claiming it is Mature.
1247
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00001248- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
1249 when protocol 0 is used.
1250
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00001251- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
1252 to be consistent with Apple tools.
1253
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00001254- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001255 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00001256
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00001257- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
1258
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00001259- Issue #1737832 : plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
1260 module.
1261
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00001262- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process
1263 creates one of the needed subdirectories.
1264
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00001265- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script
1266
1267- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'
1268
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00001269- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
1270 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
1271
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00001272- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
1273 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
1274 and getservbyport().
1275
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00001276- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
1277 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
1278
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00001279- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
1280 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
1281
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00001282- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
1283 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
1284 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
1285
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00001286- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
1287
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00001288Tools/Demos
1289-----------
1290
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00001291- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
1292
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00001293- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
1294
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00001295Build
1296-----
1297
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001298- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX:
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00001299 ``intel`` builds a distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures,
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001300 while ``3-way`` builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386``
1301 and ``x86_64`` architectures.
1302
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00001303- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
1304
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00001305- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
1306
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00001307- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
1308 extensions are installed.
1309
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00001310- Issue 5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
1311 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
1312
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00001313- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
1314 and a python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
1315 Clinton Roy.
1316
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00001317- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
1318
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00001319- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
1320
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00001321- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
1322 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1323
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00001324- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00001325 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00001326
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00001327- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
1328
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00001329- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
1330
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00001331- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
1332
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00001333- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
1334
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00001335- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
1336
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00001337- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
1338
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00001339- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
1340
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00001341- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
1342
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00001343- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
1344
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00001345- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
1346
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00001347- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
1348
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00001349- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
1350
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00001351- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
1352
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00001353- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
1354
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00001355Documentation
1356-------------
1357
1358- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
1359 for Windows.
1360
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00001361- Issue #6801 : symmetric_difference_update also accepts |.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001362 Thanks to Carl Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00001363
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001364C-API
1365-----
1366
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001367- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
Benjamin Petersonfe8745d2009-08-17 13:39:41 +00001368 NULL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00001369
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00001370- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
1371 PyCode_Addr2Line().
1372
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00001373- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
1374 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
1375
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00001376- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
1377 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
1378
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00001379- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
1380
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00001381- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
1382 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
1383
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00001384- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
1385
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00001386- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
1387 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
1388
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001389- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
1390 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001391
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00001392- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall is now thread safe and can be used for
1393 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001394
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00001395Extension Modules
1396-----------------
1397
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00001398- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
1399
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00001400- Issue #3366: Add gamma function to math module.
1401
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00001402- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
1403 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that
1404 range.
1405
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00001406- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit
1407 on OSX.
1408
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00001409- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called
1410 with something other than a tuple as first argument.
1411
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00001412- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
1413 module.
1414
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00001415- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
1416
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00001417- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
1418 tokenizer not stopping.
1419
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00001420- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
1421 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
1422 matched characters with category 'No'.
1423
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00001424- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack
1425 with an integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range
1426 integer now consistently raises struct.error.
1427
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00001428- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies
1429 for the integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*'
1430 represents any of '=', '<', '>'.
1431
1432 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning.
1433 Previously it only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
1434
1435 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always
1436 result in struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method
1437 could be packed by 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h'
1438 ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a __long__ method could be packed by
1439 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with neither __int__ nor __long__,
1440 TypeError used to be raised (with a confusing error message) for
1441 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and struct.error in other cases.
1442
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00001443- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
1444
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00001445- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python
1446 GIL is now released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
1447
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00001448- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
1449 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
1450 implementations or external openssl library).
1451
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00001452- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00001453
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00001454- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
1455
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00001456- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
1457
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00001458- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
1459
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00001460- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
1461
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00001462- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
1463 OpenBSD.
1464
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00001465- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
1466
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00001467- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
1468
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00001469- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
1470
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00001471Tests
1472-----
1473
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00001474- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
1475 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
1476
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00001477- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
1478 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
1479 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00001480
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00001481- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
1482
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00001483- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
1484 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
1485
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00001486- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
1487 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
1488 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
1489 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
1490
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00001491- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
1492 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
1493
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00001494- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
1495 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
1496 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
1497 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
1498 can be adjusted to use it over time.
1499
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00001500- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
1501
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00001502- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
1503
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00001504- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
1505
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00001506- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001507 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00001508 from test support, which does the conversion.
1509
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00001510- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
1511
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00001512- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
1513 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
1514 incorrectly on __exit__.
1515
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00001516- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
1517
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001518
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001519What's New in Python 2.6 final
1520==============================
1521
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00001522*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001523
1524Core and Builtins
1525-----------------
1526
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00001527- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
1528 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
1529
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00001530- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
1531 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
1532
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00001533- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
1534
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001535Library
1536-------
1537
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00001538- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
1539 true singleton object.
1540
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00001541- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
1542 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
1543 into a float.
1544
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00001545- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
1546
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00001547- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
1548 sizes.
1549
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00001550- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
1551
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00001552- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
1553 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
1554
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001555Build
1556-----
1557
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00001558- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
1559 installer.
1560
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001561- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
1562
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001563
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001564What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
1565=============================================
1566
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00001567*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001568
1569Core and Builtins
1570-----------------
1571
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001572Extension Modules
1573-----------------
1574
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00001575- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
1576 segfault as a result.
1577
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001578- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
1579 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001580
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00001581Tools/Demos
1582-----------
1583
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00001584- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00001585 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
1586 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
1587 are caught and silenced.
1588
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00001589Build
1590-----
1591
1592- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
1593 C runtime in the Windows installer.
1594
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001595
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001596What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
1597=============================================
1598
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00001599*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001600
1601Core and Builtins
1602-----------------
1603
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00001604- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
1605
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00001606- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
1607 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
1608 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
1609 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
1610 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
1611 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
1612 64bit values.
1613
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00001614- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
1615 error.
1616
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00001617- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
1618 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
1619 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
1620 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
1621
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00001622- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
1623 a unicode argument.
1624
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001625- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
1626
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001627- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001628 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001629 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
1630
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001631- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00001632 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
1633 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
1634 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
1635 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
1636 type object.
1637
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00001638- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
1639
1640- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
1641
1642- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
1643
1644- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
1645
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00001646- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
1647 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
1648
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00001649- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
1650 ``__delslice__``.
1651
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00001652- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
1653 library targets in the Makefile.
1654
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00001655- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
1656 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
1657 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
1658
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00001659C-API
1660-----
1661
1662- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
1663
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001664Library
1665-------
1666
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00001667- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
1668 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
1669
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00001670- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
1671
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00001672- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
1673
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001674- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
1675 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
1676 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
1677
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00001678- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
1679
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001680- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00001681 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
1682
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00001683- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
1684
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00001685- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
1686
1687- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00001688
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00001689- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
1690 its symbolic link.
1691
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001692- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
1693
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00001694- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
1695 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
1696 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
1697
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00001698- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
1699 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
1700
1701- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00001702
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00001703- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
1704 path to the Python binary.
1705
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00001706- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
1707 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
1708 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
1709 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
1710
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00001711- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
1712
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001713- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
1714
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00001715- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
1716
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00001717- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
1718
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001719- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
1720 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00001721
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00001722- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
1723 non-integer floating point number.
1724
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001725- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00001726 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
1727
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00001728Extension Modules
1729-----------------
1730
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00001731- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
1732 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
1733
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00001734- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
1735 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
1736 without limit.
1737
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00001738- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
1739 exploitation of poor argument checking.
1740
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00001741- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
1742
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00001743- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
1744 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
1745
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00001746- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
1747 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
1748 threads/processes.
1749
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00001750Tests
1751-----
1752
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001753- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
1754 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
1755 that expected warning messages are being reported.
1756
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00001757- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
1758
1759- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00001760
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00001761Build
1762-----
1763
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00001764- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
1765
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00001766- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
1767 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
1768
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00001769- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
1770
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00001771- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00001772 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00001773
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001774
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001775What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
1776================================
1777
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00001778*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001779
1780Core and Builtins
1781-----------------
1782
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00001783- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
1784 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
1785 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
1786 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
1787 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
1788 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
1789 default.
1790
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00001791- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
1792 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
1793
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00001794- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
1795 value again.
1796
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00001797- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
1798 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
1799 and introducing s*.
1800
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00001801- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
1802 object was stored in the freelist.
1803
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00001804- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
1805 ValueError consistently across platforms.
1806
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00001807- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
1808 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
1809 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
1810
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00001811- Apply security patches from Apple.
1812
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00001813- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
1814 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
1815
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00001816- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
1817 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
1818
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00001819- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
1820 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
1821 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
1822
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00001823- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
1824 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
1825 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
1826 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
1827 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
1828 failed have been fixed.
1829
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001830Library
1831-------
1832
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00001833- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
1834
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00001835- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
1836 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
1837
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00001838- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
1839 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
1840 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
1841
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00001842- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
1843 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
1844 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
1845 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
1846 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
1847 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
1848
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00001849- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
1850 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
1851
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00001852- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
1853
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00001854- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
1855
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00001856- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
1857
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00001858- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
1859 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
1860
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00001861- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00001862 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
1863
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00001864- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
1865 in a redirect.
1866
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00001867- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00001868 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00001869
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00001870- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
1871 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
1872
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00001873- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
1874 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
1875 regular expression.
1876
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00001877- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
1878 thread-safe.
1879
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00001880- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
1881 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
1882 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
1883
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00001884- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
1885
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00001886- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
1887 menu entries were not deleted.
1888
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00001889- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
1890 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
1891
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00001892- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
1893 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
1894
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00001895- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
1896 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
1897 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
1898
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00001899- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
1900 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
1901 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
1902
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00001903- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
1904 the reload() built-in has been removed.
1905
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00001906- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00001907 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00001908 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
1909 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
1910 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
1911 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
1912 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00001913
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00001914- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
1915 raised an AttributeError.
1916
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00001917- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00001918 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
1919 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00001920
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00001921- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
1922 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
1923
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00001924- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
1925
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00001926- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
1927 on a closed shelf.
1928
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00001929- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
1930
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001931- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
1932
1933- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
1934 invalid arguments.
1935
1936- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
1937 with None arguments.
1938
1939- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
1940 configuration files.
1941
1942- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
1943
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00001944- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
1945 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
1946 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
1947
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00001948- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
1949 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
1950 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
1951
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00001952Build
1953-----
1954
1955- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
1956
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00001957Documentation
1958-------------
1959
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00001960- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
1961 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
1962
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00001963- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
1964 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
1965 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
1966 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
1967
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001968
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00001969What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
1970================================
1971
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001972*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
1973
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00001974Core and Builtins
1975-----------------
1976
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00001977- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
1978 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
1979 an integer using operator.index().
1980
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00001981- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
1982 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
1983
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00001984- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
1985 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
1986
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00001987- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
1988 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
1989 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
1990
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00001991- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
1992 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
1993 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
1994 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
1995 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
1996 level.
1997
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00001998- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
1999 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
2000 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
2001 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
2002 all imports from that module to fail.
2003
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00002004- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
2005 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
2006 new-style classes.
2007
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00002008- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
2009 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
2010 another file in sys.stdout.
2011
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00002012- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
2013 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
2014 another thread's dictionary.
2015
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00002016- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
2017 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
2018 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
2019 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
2020 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
2021 10, -1).
2022
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002023- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
2024 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
2025 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00002026
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002027- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
2028 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
2029 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00002030
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002031Library
2032-------
2033
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00002034- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
2035 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
2036 error when they failed.
2037
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00002038- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
2039
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00002040- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
2041
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00002042- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
2043
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00002044- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
2045
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002046- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
2047 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
2048
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002049- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002050
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00002051- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
2052 a valid dlerror() message.
2053
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00002054- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
2055 incomplete structure was created.
2056
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00002057- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
2058
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00002059- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
2060
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002061- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00002062
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002063- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
2064 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002065 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002066 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
2067 merged into trunk.
2068
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00002069- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
2070
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002071- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
2072
2073- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
2074
2075- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
2076 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002077 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002078
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002079- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002080 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00002081
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00002082- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
2083 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
2084
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002085- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
2086 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
2087
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00002088- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
2089 interrupted by a signal.
2090
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002091- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00002092 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
2093 Prevents a deadlock.
2094
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00002095- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
2096 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
2097 default https port (443).
2098
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00002099- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
2100 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
2101 if the new process uses the threading module.
2102
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00002103Tests
2104-----
2105
2106- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
2107 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
2108 have been added to test_warnings.
2109
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00002110Build
2111-----
2112
2113- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
2114
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002115
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002116Documentation
2117-------------
2118
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00002119- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00002120 Python 3.0.
2121
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00002122- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
2123
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002124- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2125 Python 3.0.
2126
2127- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2128 Python 3.0.
2129
2130
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002131What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
2132================================
2133
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00002134*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002135
2136Core and Builtins
2137-----------------
2138
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00002139- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
2140 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
2141 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
2142 bus error.
2143
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00002144- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
2145 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
2146
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00002147- Add future_builtins.ascii().
2148
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00002149- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00002150 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00002151
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00002152- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
2153
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00002154- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
2155
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00002156- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
2157
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00002158- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
2159
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002160- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
2161 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
2162 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
2163 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00002164
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00002165- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
2166
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002167- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
2168 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00002169
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002170- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
2171 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00002172
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002173- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
2174 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
2175 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00002176
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00002177- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
2178 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
2179 can't be triggered from Python code.
2180
2181
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002182Extension Modules
2183-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00002184- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002185
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00002186- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
2187
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00002188- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00002189
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00002190- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
2191 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
2192
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00002193- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
2194 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
2195
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00002196- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
2197 weakref.proxy.
2198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002199- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
2200 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00002201
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002202- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00002203
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00002204- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00002205 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
2206 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00002207
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002208- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
2209 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
2210 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00002211
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00002212- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
2213 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
2214 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
2215
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002216- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00002217
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00002218- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00002219
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002220Library
2221-------
2222
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00002223- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
2224 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
2225
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00002226- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
2227
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00002228- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
2229 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
2230 sense).
2231
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00002232- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
2233
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00002234- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
2235 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
2236 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
2237 the patch.
2238
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002239- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
2240 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
2241 the patch).
2242
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00002243- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
2244 os.uname exists.
2245
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00002246- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2247
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00002248- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2249
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00002250- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
2251 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
2252 pointer-like object.
2253
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00002254- Added the ast module.
2255
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002256- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00002257
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00002258- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
2259 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
2260
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00002261- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
2262 to errno.
2263
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002264- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00002265
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002266- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00002267 msilib.Record objects.
2268
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00002269- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
2270 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
2271
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00002272- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
2273 in Python 3.0.
2274
2275- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
2276 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00002277
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00002278- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
2279 False boolean value now.
2280
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00002281- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
2282 transfers.
2283
2284- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
2285 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00002286
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00002287- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
2288 when the TarFile is closed.
2289
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00002290- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
2291 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
2292 an exception.
2293
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00002294- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
2295 otherwise be produced.
2296
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00002297- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
2298 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
2299
2300- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
2301 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
2302
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00002303- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
2304 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
2305 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
2306
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00002307- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
2308
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002309- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00002310 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
2311 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
2312 'm' or 'c'.
2313
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00002314- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2315
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002316- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
2317 removal in Python 3.0.
2318
2319- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2320 3.0.
2321
2322- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2323 3.0.
2324
2325- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2326 3.0.
2327
2328- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00002329 Python 3.0.
2330
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00002331- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
2332 Python 3.0.
2333
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002334- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2335 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00002336
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002337- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2338 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00002339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002340- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2341 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00002342
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002343- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2344 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00002345
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002346- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00002347 Python 3.0.
2348
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002349- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2350 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00002351
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002352- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2353 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00002354
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002355- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2356 3.0.
2357
2358- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
2359 removal in Python 3.0.
2360
2361- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2362 3.0.
2363
2364- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2365 3.0.
2366
2367- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
2368 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002369
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002370- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
2371 removal in Python 3.0.
2372
2373- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00002374 Python 3.0.
2375
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002376- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2377 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00002378
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00002379- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2380 Python 3.0.
2381
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00002382- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2383 Python 3.0.
2384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002385- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00002386
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00002387- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2388
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00002389- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2390
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00002391- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
2392
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00002393- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2394
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002395- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
2396 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
2397 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00002398
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002399- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
2400 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00002401
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00002402- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2403
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002404- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2405 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00002406
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00002407- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2408
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00002409- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2410
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00002411- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2412
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00002413- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2414
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00002415- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2416
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002417- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
2418 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00002419
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00002420- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2421
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00002422- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2423
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00002424- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
2425 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
2426 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
2427 OverflowError.
2428
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00002429- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2430
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002431- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2432 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00002433
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00002434- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2435
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00002436- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2437
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00002438- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2439
2440- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00002441
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002442- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2443
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00002444- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
2445
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00002446- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
2447
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00002448- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00002449
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002450- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
2451 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00002452
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002453- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002454 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
2455 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
2456 of Python.
2457
2458- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
2459 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
2460
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00002461- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
2462 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00002463
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002464Build
2465-----
2466
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00002467- 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 +00002468
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00002469- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
2470
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00002471- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
2472
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002473- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
2474 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002475 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002476
2477 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
2478
2479 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
2480
2481 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
2482
2483 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
2484
2485 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
2486
2487 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
2488
2489
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002490C API
2491-----
2492
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00002493- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
2494
2495- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002496
2497- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
2498 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
2499 PyString names.
2500
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00002501
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002502What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002503=================================
2504
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00002505*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002506
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002507Core and builtins
2508-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002509
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00002510- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
2511
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002512- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
2513 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00002514
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002515- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
2516 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00002517
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002518- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00002519
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00002520Extension Modules
2521-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002523- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
2524 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00002525
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00002526- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
2527
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002528- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
2529 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002530
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002531- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
2532 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002533
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002534- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
2535 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00002536
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002537- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
2538 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
2539 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
2540 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
2541 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
2542 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
2543 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
2544 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00002545
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002546Library
2547-------
2548
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00002549- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002551- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
2552 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00002553
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00002554- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
2555
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002556- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
2557 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00002558
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00002559- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
2560 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
2561 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
2562
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002563- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002564 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002565
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00002566- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00002567 reference to themselves.
2568
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00002569- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
2570 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
2571 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00002572
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00002573- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
2574 1900-01-01.
2575
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00002576- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
2577 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
2578
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00002579- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
2580 now implemented in C for better performance.
2581
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002582- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
2583 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
2584 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00002585
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002586- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00002587 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
2588 build documentation for more information.
2589
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00002590- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
2591 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
2592 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
2593 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
2594
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00002595- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
2596 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
2597 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
2598
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002599- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
2600 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
2601 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
2602 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00002603
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002604Tests
2605-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002606
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002607- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
2608 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
2609 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
2610 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
2611 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
2612 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
2613 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
2614 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
2615 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
2616 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
2617 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
2618 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
2619 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
2620 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
2621 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
2622 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
2623 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
2624 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
2625 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
2626 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
2627
2628 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
2629 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
2630 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
2631 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
2632 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
2633 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
2634 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
2635 access to the underlying socket used.
2636
2637 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
2638 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
2639 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002640
2641 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002642 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002643 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
2644 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
2645
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002646 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
2647 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002648
2649Build
2650-----
2651
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00002652- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
2653
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00002654- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
2655 gcc is used as compiler.
2656
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002657- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002658 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002659
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002660C API
2661-----
2662
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002663- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
2664 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
2665 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
2666 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002667
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00002668- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00002669
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002670
2671What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
2672=================================
2673
2674*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
2675
2676Core and builtins
2677-----------------
2678
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002679- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
2680 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
2681 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00002682
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00002683- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
2684 cannot be executed.
2685
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00002686- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
2687 reference on the outer class name.
2688
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002689- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002690 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002691
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002692- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
2693 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00002694
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00002695- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002696
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00002697- Added backport of bytearray type.
2698
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002699- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
2700
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002701- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002702 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
2703 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
2704 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
2705 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
2706 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002707
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00002708- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
2709
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002710- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
2711 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00002712
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00002713- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002714
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00002715- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
2716
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002717- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
2718 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00002719
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002720- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
2721 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00002722
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002723- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00002724 exception instances.
2725
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002726- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002727 doesn't derive from BaseException.
2728
2729- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
2730 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002731
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00002732- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
2733 memory usage in some circumstances.
2734
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002735- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
2736 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
2737 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00002738
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00002739- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
2740
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002741- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00002742 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
2743 longer passed.
2744
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00002745- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
2746
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002747- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
2748 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
2749 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00002750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002751- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
2752 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002753
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00002754- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
2755
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00002756Extension Modules
2757-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00002758
2759- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
2760
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002761Library
2762-------
2763
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002764- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
2765 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002766
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002767- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
2768 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
2769 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002770
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002771- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
2772 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002773
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002774- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
2775 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
2776 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00002777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002778- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
2779 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00002780
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00002781- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
2782
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00002783- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
2784 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
2785 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
2786
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00002787- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
2788
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00002789- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
2790 advertised in the docs.
2791
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002792- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00002793
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002794- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00002795
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002796- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
2797 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00002798
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00002799- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
2800 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
2801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002802- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
2803 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00002804 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
2805 information as well.
2806
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002807- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
2808 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00002809
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002810- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
2811 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00002812
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002813- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
2814 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
2815 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00002816
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00002817- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
2818 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
2819 strftime.
2820
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00002821- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002822 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
2823 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00002824
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00002825- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
2826 correctly under win32
2827
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002828- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00002829
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00002830- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002831 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
2832 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
2833 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00002834
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00002835- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
2836 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
2837
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002838- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
2839 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00002840
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002841- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
2842 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
2843 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00002844
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002845- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00002846 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
2847
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00002848- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
2849 from 't' to '?'.
2850
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002851- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
2852 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002853 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
2854 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
2855 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002856
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002857- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
2858 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00002859
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00002860Tests
2861-----
2862
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002863- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
2864 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00002865
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00002866- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
2867
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00002868- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
2869
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00002870- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
2871
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00002872- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
2873
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002874- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
2875 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00002876
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00002877- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
2878
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00002879- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
2880
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002881- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
2882 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00002883
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00002884- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
2885
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00002886- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
2887
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00002888- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
2889 permission to create files in the root directory.
2890
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00002891Build
2892-----
2893
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00002894- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
2895
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002896- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
2897 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00002898
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00002899- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002900
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002901C API
2902-----
2903
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002904- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002905 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
2906
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002907
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00002908What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
2909=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00002910
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00002911*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002912
2913Core and builtins
2914-----------------
2915
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00002916- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00002917 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00002918
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00002919- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
2920
2921- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00002922
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002923- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00002924 issue 215555 for a discussion.
2925
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00002926- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
2927 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
2928 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
2929 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
2930 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
2931 module is:
2932 from future_builtins import hex, oct
2933
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00002934- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
2935 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
2936 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
2937 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
2938 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
2939 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
2940
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00002941- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
2942 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
2943 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
2944 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
2945 PyObject_Format().
2946
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002947- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
2948 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
2949 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00002950
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002951- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002952 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
2953 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00002954
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002955- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
2956 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00002957
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002958- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
2959 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
2960 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00002961
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002962- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
2963 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
2964 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00002965
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00002966- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
2967 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
2968
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002969- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
2970 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00002971
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002972- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
2973 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00002974 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
2975
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002976- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
2977 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
2978 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00002979
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002980- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
2981 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00002982
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002983- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
2984 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00002985
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002986- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
2987 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00002988
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002989- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
2990 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00002991
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002992- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
2993 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
2994 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00002995
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002996- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
2997 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
2998 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
2999 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00003000
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00003001- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
3002 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
3003 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
3004
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003005- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00003006 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
3007 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
3008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003009- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00003010 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
3011 support.
3012
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00003013- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
3014 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
3015
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00003016- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
3017
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003018- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00003019 added.
3020
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00003021- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
3022 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
3023
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003024- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
3025 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00003026
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003027- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
3028 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
3029 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00003030
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003031- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
3032 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00003033
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00003034- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
3035 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00003036
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00003037- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
3038
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003039- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
3040 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
3041 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00003042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003043- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
3044 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
3045 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00003046
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003047- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00003048
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003049- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
3050 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00003051
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003052- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003053 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
3054 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003055
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003056- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
3057 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
3058 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
3059 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00003060
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003061- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00003062
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003063- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
3064 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00003065
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003066- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
3067 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00003068
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00003069- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00003070 SystemError.
3071
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00003072- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
3073 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
3074 __package__ attribute.
3075
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003076- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
3077 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
3078 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00003079
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00003080- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
3081
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003082- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00003083 attribute of an empty cell object.
3084
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003085- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
3086 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00003087
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003088- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
3089 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
3090 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
3091 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00003092
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003093- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
3094 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
3095 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00003096
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00003097- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
3098
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00003099- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
3100
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00003101- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
3102
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003103- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
3104 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
3105 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00003106
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003107- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
3108 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
3109 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
3110 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
3111 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
3112 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00003113
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003114- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
3115 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
3116 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
3117 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
3118 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00003119
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003120- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
3121 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
3122 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00003123
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003124- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
3125 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00003126
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003127- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003128 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
3129 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
3130 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
3131 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
3132 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003133
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003134- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
3135 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00003136
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00003137- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
3138 with %G.
3139
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003140- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
3141 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00003142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003143- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00003144
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003145- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00003146
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003147- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003148 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
3149 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003150
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00003151- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
3152 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
3153
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00003154- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
3155 calls.
3156
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003157- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003158 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
3159 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003160
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00003161- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
3162
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003163- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00003164 inherited from a builtin base.
3165
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003166- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00003167 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
3168
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00003169- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
3170
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00003171- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
3172 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
3173 remaining characters.
3174
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00003175- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
3176 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
3177
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00003178- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
3179
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003180- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
3181 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
3182 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
3183 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
3184 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00003185 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
3186 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003187
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003188- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
3189 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
3190 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
3191 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
3192 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00003193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003194- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
3195 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
3196 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00003197
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003198- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
3199 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00003200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003201- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
3202 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
3203 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00003204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003205- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
3206 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00003207
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00003208- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
3209
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00003210- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
3211 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
3212
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003213- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003214 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
3215 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
3216 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003217
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00003218- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
3219 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
3220
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003221- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
3222 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00003223
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003224- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
3225 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
3226 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00003227
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003228- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003229 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
3230 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003231
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003232- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
3233 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003234 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
3235 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003236
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003237- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
3238 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00003239
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003240- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
3241 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00003242
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00003243- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
3244 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
3245
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003246- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
3247 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
3248 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00003249
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003250- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
3251 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00003252
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003253- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
3254 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00003255
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003256- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
3257 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
3258 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00003259
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00003260- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
3261 frame's thread state.
3262
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003263- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
3264 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00003265
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003266- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
3267 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00003268
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003269- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
3270 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00003271
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003272- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
3273 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00003274
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003275- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
3276 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00003277
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00003278- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
3279
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00003280- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
3281
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00003282- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
3283
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003284- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
3285 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00003286
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003287- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00003288
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00003289- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
3290 again, no longer the posix error code.
3291
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00003292- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
3293 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
3294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003295- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
3296 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00003297
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00003298- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
3299 embedded in the string to convert.
3300
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00003301- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
3302 recognized and rejected.
3303
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003304- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
3305
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003306- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
3307 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
3308 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00003309
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00003310- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
3311 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
3312
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003313- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003314 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
3315 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003316
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003317- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
3318 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
3319 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00003320
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00003321- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
3322
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00003323- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
3324
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00003325- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
3326
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003327- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
3328 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
3329 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00003330
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00003331- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
3332 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
3333 'exceptions'.
3334
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00003335- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
3336 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
3337
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00003338- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
3339 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
3340
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00003341- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
3342
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00003343- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
3344
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00003345- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
3346 head is the original string if sep was not found.
3347
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003348- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003349 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
3350 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
3351 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003352
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003353- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00003354
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003355- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
3356 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003357
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003358- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
3359 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00003360
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003361- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00003362 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
3363 it actually exited.
3364
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003365
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003366Library
3367-------
3368
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003369- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00003370
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00003371- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
3372
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00003373- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
3374
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003375- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
3376 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00003377
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003378- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00003379
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003380- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
3381 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
3382 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00003383
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003384- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
3385 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00003386
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003387- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00003388 (ignore-case)
3389
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00003390- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
3391 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
3392 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
3393 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
3394
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003395- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
3396 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00003397
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003398- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
3399 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00003400
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00003401- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
3402 pickled.
3403
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00003404- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
3405 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
3406
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00003407- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
3408 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
3409 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
3410
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003411- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
3412 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00003413
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003414- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
3415 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
3416 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00003417
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003418- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
3419 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00003420
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003421- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
3422 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00003423
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003424- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
3425 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
3426 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
3427 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00003428
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003429- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
3430 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003431 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
3432
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00003433- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
3434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003435- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
3436 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00003437
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003438- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00003439
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003440- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
3441 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003442
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003443- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
3444 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003445
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003446- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
3447 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003448
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003449- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
3450 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003451
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003452- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
3453 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
3454 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00003455
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003456- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
3457 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00003458
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003459- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
3460 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00003461
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003462- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
3463 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00003464
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003465- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
3466 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00003467
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003468- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
3469 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00003470
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003471- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
3472 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00003473
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00003474- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
3475 with extended local headers.
3476
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003477- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
3478 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00003479
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003480- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00003481 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
3482 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
3483
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003484- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
3485 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00003486
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003487- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
3488 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00003489
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003490- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
3491 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00003492
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003493- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
3494 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00003495
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003496- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
3497 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00003498
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003499- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003500 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003501 Textbox.gather().
3502
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003503- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
3504 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00003505 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
3506 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003507
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00003508- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
3509 that array types do not live longer than needed.
3510
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003511- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
3512 and when creating a recursive instance.
3513
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003514- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
3515 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
3516 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00003517
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00003518- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
3519 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
3520 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
3521
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003522- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
3523 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00003524
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003525- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00003526 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
3527
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003528- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00003529 good for long regular expression matches.
3530
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003531- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
3532 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00003533
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00003534- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
3535 the current context.
3536
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00003537- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
3538 zipfile module.
3539
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00003540- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
3541
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003542- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
3543 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00003544
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00003545- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
3546
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00003547- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
3548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003549- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
3550 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00003551
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00003552- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
3553
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003554- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
3555 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00003556
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003557- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
3558 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00003559
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00003560- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
3561
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00003562- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
3563 Tcl objects.
3564
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00003565- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
3566
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003567- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
3568 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
3569 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
3570 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00003571
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003572- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
3573 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00003574
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003575- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
3576 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00003577
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003578- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
3579 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00003580
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003581- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
3582 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00003583
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00003584- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
3585 method used universal newlines.
3586
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00003587- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
3588 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
3589
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00003590- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
3591 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
3592
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00003593- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
3594 files are updated.
3595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003596- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
3597 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003598
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00003599- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
3600 configured with --with-system-ffi.
3601
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003602- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003603 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003604
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00003605- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
3606
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003607- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
3608 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
3609 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00003610
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003611- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
3612 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00003613
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00003614- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00003615
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00003616- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
3617
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003618- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
3619 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00003620
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00003621- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
3622 to be orderable to properly represent them.
3623
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00003624- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
3625
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00003626- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
3627
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003628- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
3629 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
3630 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00003631
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00003632- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
3633 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
3634
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003635- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
3636 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00003637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003638- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
3639 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00003640
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00003641- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
3642
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00003643- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
3644
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00003645- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
3646 syllables.
3647
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003648- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
3649 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00003650
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00003651- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
3652
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00003653- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
3654 represent the result in a single character.
3655
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00003656- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
3657
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00003658- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
3659
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00003660- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
3661 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
3662 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
3663
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00003664- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
3665
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003666- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
3667 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00003668
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003669- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
3670 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
3671 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00003672
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003673- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
3674 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
3675 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00003676
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003677- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003678 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
3679 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003680
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003681- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
3682 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00003683
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003684- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
3685 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00003686
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00003687- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3688
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00003689- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3690
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003691- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
3692 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
3693 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00003694
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00003695- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3696
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00003697- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3698
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00003699- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
3700 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
3701
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00003702- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
3703
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00003704- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
3705
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00003706- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
3707
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003708- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
3709 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00003710
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003711- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
3712 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00003713
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00003714- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
3715 the directories).
3716
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00003717- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
3718 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
3719 injecting HTML into the error page.
3720
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003721- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
3722 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00003723
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003724- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
3725 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003726
3727- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
3728
3729- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
3730
3731- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
3732 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
3733 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
3734
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00003735- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
3736 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
3737 ".cpp" too.
3738
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00003739- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003740 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
3741 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
3742 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00003743
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003744- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
3745 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00003746
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003747- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
3748 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00003749
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00003750- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
3751 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
3752 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
3753 closes patch #723312.
3754
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003755- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
3756 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00003757 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00003758
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00003759- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
3760
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00003761- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
3762 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
3763
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00003764- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
3765
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003766- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
3767 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00003768 directories.
3769
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00003770- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
3771 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
3772 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
3773 trying Mozilla variants.
3774
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00003775- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
3776
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00003777- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
3778 initialization failed.
3779
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00003780- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003781 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
3782 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00003783
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003784- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
3785 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
3786 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00003787
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003788- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
3789 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00003790 correctly now.
3791
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00003792- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
3793
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003794- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
3795 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00003796
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00003797- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
3798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003799- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
3800 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
3801 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00003802
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003803- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
3804 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
3805 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
3806 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00003807
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003808- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
3809 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
3810 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00003811
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00003812- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
3813 whitespace while wrapping.
3814
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00003815- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003816 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
3817 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00003818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003819- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
3820 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
3821 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00003822
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00003823- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
3824 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
3825
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003826- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
3827 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00003828
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00003829- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
3830 concatenation in robotparser.
3831
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00003832- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003833 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
3834 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00003835
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00003836- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
3837 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
3838
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00003839- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
3840
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003841- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
3842 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
3843 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00003844
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003845- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
3846 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
3847 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00003848
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003849- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
3850 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00003851 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00003852
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00003853- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
3854 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
3855
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00003856- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
3857 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
3858
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00003859- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
3860 returned string up to the first NUL character.
3861
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00003862- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
3863
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00003864- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
3865
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003866- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
3867 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
3868 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00003869
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00003870- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
3871
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003872- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
3873 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
3874 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
3875 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
3876 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
3877 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00003878
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003879- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
3880 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00003881
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00003882- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
3883 comprehensive test suite for the module.
3884
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00003885- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
3886 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
3887
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003888- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
3889 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
3890 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00003891
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003892- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00003893 in HTMLParser.
3894
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00003895- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
3896 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
3897
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00003898- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
3899
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00003900- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
3901
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00003902- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
3903
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00003904- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00003905
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00003906- Added itertools.izip_longest().
3907
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003908- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
3909 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00003910
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00003911- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
3912
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00003913- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
3914 doesn't exist.
3915
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00003916- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
3917
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00003918- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
3919
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003920- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00003921
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003922- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
3923 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00003924
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003925- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
3926 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00003927
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003928- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
3929 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00003930
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00003931- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003932 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00003933
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00003934- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
3935 iso8859_16.
3936
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003937- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
3938 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
3939 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
3940 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00003941
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003942- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
3943
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00003944- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
3945 directories.
3946
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00003947- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
3948
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003949- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
3950 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00003951
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003952- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003953 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003954
3955- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003956 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003957
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003958- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003960- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
3961 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00003962
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00003963- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
3964
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00003965- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
3966 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
3967 parameterless foreign function calls work.
3968
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00003969- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
3970
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00003971- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
3972 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
3973 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
3974
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00003975- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
3976 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
3977
3978- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
3979 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
3980
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003981- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
3982 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
3983 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00003984
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003985- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
3986 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00003987
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00003988- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
3989
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003990- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
3991 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00003992
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003993- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
3994 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00003995
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003996- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
3997 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00003998
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00003999- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
4000 separated lists read from logging config files.
4001
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004002- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
4003 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
4004 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004005
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004006- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
4007 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00004008
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00004009- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
4010
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004011- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
4012 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00004013
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00004014- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
4015
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00004016- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
4017
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004018- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
4019 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00004020
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00004021- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
4022 regular files.
4023
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00004024- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
4025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004026- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
4027 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00004028
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004029- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
4030 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00004031
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00004032- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
4033 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
4034
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00004035- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
4036 file name mangling.
4037
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004038- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
4039 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00004040
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00004041- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
4042
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004043- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00004044 HTTPConnection.request().
4045
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00004046- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
4047 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
4048 objects.
4049
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004050- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
4051 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
4052 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00004053
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004054- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
4055 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
4056 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00004057
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004058- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00004059
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004060- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00004061
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00004062- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
4063
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004064- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004065 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004066
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00004067- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
4068
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00004069- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
4070 GNU modes.
4071
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00004072- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
4073 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
4074 opcode.
4075
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00004076- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
4077 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
4078 statement (bug #1586513).
4079
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004080- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
4081 correctly.
4082
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00004083- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
4084
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004085- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
4086 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00004087
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00004088- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
4089 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
4090 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
4091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004092- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
4093 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
4094 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00004095
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004096- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
4097 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00004098
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00004099- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
4100
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00004101- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
4102
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004103- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
4104 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00004105
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004106- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
4107 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00004108
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00004109- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
4110 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
4111
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00004112- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
4113 with a slash.
4114
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00004115- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
4116 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
4117
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00004118- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004119 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00004120
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00004121- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
4122 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
4123 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
4124
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004125- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
4126 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00004127
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004128- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
4129 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00004130
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004131- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
4132 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00004133
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00004134- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
4135
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004136- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00004137 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004138
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004139- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
4140 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00004141
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004142- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
4143 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004144
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00004145- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
4146
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004147- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
4148 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00004149
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004150- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
4151 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
4152 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004153
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004154- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
4155 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
4156 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00004157
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004158- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
4159 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
4160 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
4161 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00004162
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004163- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004164 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
4165 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004166 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
4167 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
4168 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004169
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004170- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
4171 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004172
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004173Extension Modules
4174-----------------
4175
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004176- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00004177
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00004178- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
4179
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00004180- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
4181
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004182- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00004183
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004184- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
4185 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00004186
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004187- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
4188 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00004189
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004190- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
4191 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00004192
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00004193- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
4194
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00004195- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
4196
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004197- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
4198 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004199
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00004200- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
4201
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004202- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
4203 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00004204
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00004205- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
4206
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004207- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
4208 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00004209
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004210- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00004211 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
4212 parameter.
4213
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004214- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
4215 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
4216 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
4217 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00004218
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004219- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
4220 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00004221
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004222- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
4223 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00004224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004225- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
4226 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
4227 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00004228
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004229- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
4230 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00004231
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00004232- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
4233
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00004234- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
4235
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004236- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
4237 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
4238 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00004239
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004240- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
4241 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00004242
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00004243- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
4244
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00004245- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
4246
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004247- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
4248 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
4249 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
4250 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00004251
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00004252- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
4253 get_completion_type to readline.
4254
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00004255- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
4256 structure.
4257
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00004258- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4259
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00004260- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
4261
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00004262- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
4263 intended for RECNO databases.
4264
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004265- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004266 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
4267 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
4268 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
4269 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
4270 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
4271 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004272
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00004273- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
4274
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00004275- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
4276
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004277- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
4278 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
4279 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
4280 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
4281 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00004282
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00004283- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
4284 error in spite of a succesful compression.
4285
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00004286- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
4287 of Py_ssize_t.
4288
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00004289- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
4290 fractional times. With unittest.
4291
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004292- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
4293 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
4294 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00004295
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00004296- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
4297
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00004298- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
4299
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00004300- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
4301
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00004302- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
4303
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004304- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
4305 builtin types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00004306
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004307- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
4308 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00004309
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004310- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
4311 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00004312
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00004313- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
4314 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
4315
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004316- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
4317 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
4318 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00004319
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00004320- Speed up function calls into the math module.
4321
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00004322- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
4323 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
4324 does.
4325
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00004326- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
4327
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00004328- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
4329
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00004330- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
4331
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00004332- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
4333
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00004334- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
4335 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
4336
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00004337- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
4338 datetime's strftime function.
4339
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00004340- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
4341
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00004342- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
4343
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004344- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
4345 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00004346
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00004347- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
4348
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004349- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004350 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
4351 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004353- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
4354 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00004355
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004356- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004357 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
4358 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004359 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
4360 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00004361 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004362 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004363
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004364- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
4365 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
4366 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
4367 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
4368
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00004369- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
4370 were transposed.
4371
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00004372- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
4373 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00004374
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004375- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
4376 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
4377 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004378
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004379- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
4380
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00004381- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
4382
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00004383- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
4384
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00004385- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004386
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00004387- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
4388 databases without a DBEnv.
4389
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00004390- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
4391
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004392Tests
4393-----
4394
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00004395- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00004396
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004397- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
4398 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00004399
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004400- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
4401 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
4402 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00004403
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00004404- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
4405 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00004406
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004407- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
4408 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00004409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004410- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
4411 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
4412 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00004413
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00004414- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
4415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004416- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
4417 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
4418 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00004419
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004420- Added some tests for modulefinder.
4421
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00004422- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
4423
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00004424- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
4425 number properly.
4426
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004427- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
4428 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004429
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004430Tools
4431-----
4432
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004433- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
4434 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
4435 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
4436 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00004437
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004438- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
4439 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
4440 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00004441
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00004442- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
4443 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
4444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004445- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
4446 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004447
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004448- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
4449 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004450
4451- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004452 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
4453 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004454
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004455
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004456Documentation
4457-------------
4458
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004459- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
4460 include new optional delay argument.
4461
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004462- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
4463 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
4464 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004465
4466- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
4467 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
4468
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00004469- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
4470 Python tutorial.
4471
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00004472- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
4473
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004474- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
4475 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00004476
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00004477- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
4478 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
4479
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00004480- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
4481 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
4482
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00004483- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
4484
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00004485- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
4486 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
4487
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00004488- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
4489 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
4490
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00004491- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
4492 docs.
4493
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00004494- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
4495
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00004496- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
4497 string pointed to by its parameter.
4498
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00004499- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
4500
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004501- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004502 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
4503 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
4504 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004505
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004506
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004507Tools/Demos
4508-----------
4509
4510- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004511
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004512- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004513 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
4514 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004515
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004516- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
4517 file not to get reported properly.
4518
4519
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004520Build
4521-----
4522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004523- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
4524 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
4525 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00004526
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00004527- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
4528 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
4529
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00004530- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
4531
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004532- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004533
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004534- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
4535 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
4536 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
4537 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004538
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004539- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
4540 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004541
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00004542- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
4543
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00004544- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
4545 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
4546 without this option!
4547
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00004548- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
4549
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004550- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004551 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
4552 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
4553 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004554
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004555- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
4556 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00004557
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00004558- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
4559
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00004560- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
4561
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004562- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
4563 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00004564
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004565- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
4566 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00004567
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00004568- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
4569 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
4570 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
4571
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00004572- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
4573 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
4574
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00004575- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
4576
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00004577- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
4578
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004579- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
4580 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00004581
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004582- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00004583 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
4584
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004585- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
4586 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00004587
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00004588- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
4589
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004590- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00004591
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00004592- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
4593
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00004594- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
4595
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00004596- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004597
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004598- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
4599 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
4600 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00004601
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004602
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004603C API
4604-----
4605
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004606- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
4607 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
4608 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
4609 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00004610
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004611- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
4612 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
4613 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004614
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004615- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004616
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004617- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
4618 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
4619 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004620
4621- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
4622
4623- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
4624 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
4625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004626- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
4627 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
4628 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
4629 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004630
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004631- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
4632 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004633
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004634- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
4635 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
4636 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004638- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
4639 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004640
4641- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
4642
4643- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
4644
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004645- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
4646
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004647- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
4648
4649- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
4650 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
4651
4652- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
4653 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
4654
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004655- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
4656 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
4657 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004658
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004659- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
4660 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004661
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004662- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
4663 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00004664
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004665
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004666Windows
4667-------
4668
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004669- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
4670 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
4671 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
4672 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00004673
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004674- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
4675 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004676
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00004677- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
4678
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004679
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004680Mac
4681---
4682
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00004683- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4684
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00004685- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4686
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004687- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4688 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
4689 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00004690
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00004691----
4692
4693**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**