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Georg Brandld33a9be2012-07-21 16:48:16 +02001Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002+++++++++++
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Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06004What's New in Python 2.7.4
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Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02006
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06007*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02008
9Core and Builtins
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11
Andrew Svetlov15fc2202012-07-26 17:19:40 +030012- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
13
Antoine Pitrou715a63b2012-07-21 00:52:06 +020014- Issue #14579: Fix error handling bug in the utf-16 decoder. Patch by
15 Serhiy Storchaka.
16
Meador Inge6642d1f2012-07-18 14:09:04 -050017- Issue #15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be
18 non-deterministic when using randomized hashing (-R) has been fixed.
19
Senthil Kumaran3b30b192012-07-04 19:50:29 -070020- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m swith,
21 return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.
22
Gregory P. Smithb2ac4d62012-06-25 20:57:36 -070023- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read() methods no longer lose
24 data when an underlying read system call is interrupted. IOError is no
25 longer raised due to a read system call returning EINTR from within these
26 methods.
27
Éric Araujoe5567cc2012-07-03 01:23:46 -040028- Issue #13512: Create ~/.pypirc securely (CVE-2011-4944). Initial patch by
29 Philip Jenvey, tested by Mageia and Debian.
30
Éric Araujo3cf202e2012-07-03 01:12:42 -040031- Issue #7719: Make distutils ignore ``.nfs*`` files instead of choking later
32 on. Initial patch by SilentGhost and Jeff Ramnani.
33
Hynek Schlawack9bd4bf22012-06-21 19:45:19 +020034- Issue #10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
35 the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
36
Antoine Pitrouff0e22b2012-05-28 22:22:34 +020037- Issue #14775: Fix a potential quadratic dict build-up due to the garbage
38 collector repeatedly trying to untrack dicts.
39
Petri Lehtinen5f397062012-05-19 18:34:06 +030040- Issue #14494: Fix __future__.py and its documentation to note that
41 absolute imports are the default behavior in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
42 Patch by Sven Marnach.
43
Antoine Pitrou284fa082012-05-09 13:24:31 +020044- Issue #14761: Fix potential leak on an error case in the import machinery.
45
Benjamin Peterson042c47b2012-05-01 09:51:09 -040046- Issue #14699: Fix calling the classmethod descriptor directly.
47
Benjamin Petersond157a4c2012-04-24 11:06:25 -040048- Issue #11603 (again): Setting __repr__ to __str__ now raises a RuntimeError
49 when repr() or str() is called on such an object.
50
51- Issue #14658: Fix binding a special method to a builtin implementation of a
52 special method with a different name.
53
Benjamin Peterson76605552012-04-18 11:14:31 -040054- Issue #14612: Fix jumping around with blocks by setting f_lineno.
55
Mark Dickinson9c0baf72012-04-15 15:19:06 +010056- Issue #13889: Check and (if necessary) set FPU control word before calling
57 any of the dtoa.c string <-> float conversion functions, on MSVC builds of
58 Python. This fixes issues when embedding Python in a Delphi app.
59
Antoine Pitrou02a38012012-04-05 14:07:52 +020060- Issue #14505: Fix file descriptor leak when deallocating file objects
61 created with PyFile_FromString().
62
Benjamin Petersonf73813a2012-04-02 11:15:17 -040063- Issue #14474: Save and restore exception state in thread.start_new_thread()
64 while writing error message if the thread leaves a unhandled exception.
65
Antoine Pitroufe941772012-04-01 16:05:46 +020066- Issue #13019: Fix potential reference leaks in bytearray.extend(). Patch
67 by Suman Saha.
68
Benjamin Petersoneff19a12012-03-22 08:19:04 -040069- Issue #14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string as
70 the module name that was not interned.
71
Gregory P. Smithfcdf04b2012-03-18 16:07:10 -070072- Issue #14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by
73 allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack.
74
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -050075- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
Benjamin Petersondbc52f82012-03-16 10:58:46 -050076 passed strings. Also fix segfaults in the __getattribute__ and __setattr__
77 methods of old-style classes.
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -050078
Ezio Melotti11f8b682012-03-12 01:17:02 +020079- Issue #14161: fix the __repr__ of file objects to escape the file name.
80
Benjamin Petersona8d45852012-03-07 18:41:11 -060081- Issue #1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be
82 collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``).
83
Antoine Pitrou6a1cd1b2012-02-27 00:45:12 +010084- Issue #13521: dict.setdefault() now does only one lookup for the given key,
85 making it "atomic" for many purposes. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
86
krisvale479c8f82012-03-22 20:17:42 +000087- Issue #10538: When using the "s*" code with PyArg_ParseTuple() to fill a
88 Py_buffer structure with data from an object supporting only the old
89 PyBuffer interface, a reference to the source objects is now properly added
90 to the Py_buffer.obj member.
91
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -060092Library
93-------
94
Andrew Svetlov8a15c372012-07-31 19:51:27 +030095- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
96 Patch by Roger Serwy.
97
Andrew Svetlov2d968482012-07-30 20:04:53 +030098- Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue
99 for tkinter SimpleDialog.
100
Antoine Pitroubaee34c2012-07-30 00:01:06 +0200101- Issue #15489: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for BytesIO objects.
102 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
103
Antoine Pitroubff5df02012-07-29 19:02:46 +0200104- Issue #15487: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for buffered I/O objects.
105 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
106
Meador Inge87c5b942012-07-23 09:27:00 -0500107- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused sys.getsizeof to
108 return incorrect results for struct.Struct instances has been fixed.
109 Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
110
R David Murray0f111c12012-07-22 21:55:12 -0400111- Issue #15232: when mangle_from is True, email.Generator now correctly mangles
R David Murray70098452012-07-24 14:24:42 -0400112 lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or epilog.
R David Murray0f111c12012-07-22 21:55:12 -0400113
R David Murray68f555c2012-07-21 22:54:34 -0400114- Issue #13922: argparse no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear
115 after the first one.
116
R David Murray056c31f2012-07-21 22:35:00 -0400117- Issue #12353: argparse now correctly handles null argument values.
118
Meador Inge25be3f62012-07-18 23:51:05 -0500119- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields
120 of type ctypes.c_uint32 and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
121
Gregory P. Smithe0c22202012-07-15 22:16:06 -0700122- Issue #14635: telnetlib will use poll() rather than select() when possible
123 to avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.
124
Antoine Pitrouc2ec9922012-07-06 18:48:24 +0200125- Issue #15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor
126 pointing to a directory.
127
Mark Dickinsone0afb722012-06-30 17:19:35 +0100128- Issue #14591: Fix bug in Random.jumpahead that could produce an invalid
129 Mersenne Twister state on 64-bit machines.
130
Petri Lehtinend07de402012-06-29 15:09:12 +0300131- Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox
132 files on flush().
133
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd958cc92012-06-29 01:42:46 +0200134- Issue #15219: Fix a reference leak when hashlib.new() is called with
135 invalid parameters.
136
Petri Lehtinen45f0d982012-06-28 13:48:17 +0300137- Issue #9559: If messages were only added, a new file is no longer
138 created and renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an
139 mbox, MMDF or Babyl mailbox.
140
Alexander Belopolskye99d3a12012-06-21 20:57:39 -0400141- Issue #14653: email.utils.mktime_tz() no longer relies on system
142 mktime() when timezone offest is supplied.
143
Richard Oudkerke4b99382012-07-27 14:05:46 +0100144- Issue #6056: Make multiprocessing use setblocking(True) on the
145 sockets it uses. Original patch by J Derek Wilson.
146
Richard Oudkerk4215d272012-06-18 15:37:31 +0100147- Issue #15101: Make pool finalizer avoid joining current thread.
148
Meador Inge43f42fc2012-06-16 21:05:50 -0500149- Issue #15054: A bug in tokenize.tokenize that caused string literals
150 with 'b' and 'br' prefixes to be incorrectly tokenized has been fixed.
151 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
152
Petri Lehtinen48ee6902012-06-18 10:42:05 +0300153- Issue #15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done
154 between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox,
155 MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes.
Petri Lehtinen7cf66992012-06-15 20:50:51 +0300156
Richard Oudkerk926f58d2012-06-11 15:11:35 +0100157- Issue #10133: Make multiprocessing deallocate buffer if socket read
158 fails. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
159
Richard Oudkerk2182e052012-06-06 19:01:14 +0100160- Issue #13854: Make multiprocessing properly handle non-integer
161 non-string argument to SystemExit.
162
Richard Oudkerkd44a4a22012-06-06 17:52:18 +0100163- Issue #12157: Make pool.map() empty iterables correctly. Initial
164 patch by mouad.
165
Ned Deily5e247b72012-05-31 09:17:29 -0700166- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
167 options. Patch by Roger Serwy.
168
Ned Deily71489842012-05-29 10:42:34 -0700169- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
170
Terry Jan Reedy5525eb72012-06-07 19:50:30 -0400171- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes Idle.
Terry Jan Reedyd9d276b2012-05-27 21:28:42 -0400172 Original patch by Roger Serwy.
173
Terry Jan Reedyeaa7e782012-05-26 20:33:32 -0400174- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing
175 even when parent window is closed. Patch by Roger Serwy.
176
Terry Jan Reedy42f7b7e2012-05-26 16:55:43 -0400177- Issue #14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration.
178 Patch by Roger Serwy.
179
Senthil Kumaran37484dc2012-05-24 21:54:34 +0800180- Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
181 not go in illegal range and returns None.
182
Antoine Pitroucd8799f2012-05-23 23:16:14 +0200183- Issue #14888: Fix misbehaviour of the _md5 module when called on data
184 larger than 2**32 bytes.
185
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -0600186- Issue #14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json module.
187
Ned Deily77e77a12012-05-19 23:35:05 -0700188- Issue #14572: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of
189 sqlite3, such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
190
Senthil Kumaranf439a362012-05-20 12:02:44 +0800191- Issue #14426: Correct the Date format in Expires attribute of Set-Cookie
192 Header in Cookie.py.
193
Senthil Kumaran618802d2012-05-19 16:52:21 +0800194- Issue #14721: Send proper header, Content-length: 0 when the body is an empty
195 string ''. Initial Patch contributed by Arve Knudsen.
196
Ezio Melotti6d9c1b12012-05-19 17:12:17 +0300197- Issue #14072: Fix parsing of 'tel' URIs in urlparse by making the check for
198 ports stricter.
199
Senthil Kumaranea24dda2012-05-19 08:10:40 +0800200- Issue #9374: Generic parsing of query and fragment portions of url for any
201 scheme. Supported both by RFC3986 and RFC2396.
202
Petri Lehtinen280e9f72012-05-18 21:51:11 +0300203- Issue #14798: Fix the functions in pyclbr to raise an ImportError
204 when the first part of a dotted name is not a package. Patch by
205 Xavier de Gaye.
206
R David Murray69493922012-05-16 14:01:03 -0400207- Issue #14832: fixed the order of the argument references in the error
208 message produced by unittest's assertItemsEqual.
209
Antoine Pitrou38fbd792012-05-16 15:01:40 +0200210- Issue #14829: Fix bisect issues under 64-bit Windows.
211
Ned Deily724a55c2012-05-15 18:05:57 -0700212- Issue #14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when
213 accessing the Tk clipboard. Modify clipboad_get() to first request type
214 UTF8_STRING when no specific type is requested in an X11 windowing
215 environment, falling back to the current default type STRING if that fails.
216 Original patch by Thomas Kluyver.
217
Senthil Kumaran6a2a6c22012-05-15 22:24:10 +0800218- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field with HTTP Basic
219 Authentation in urllib2.
220
Ned Deilyacdc56d2012-05-10 17:45:49 -0700221- Issue #14662: Prevent shutil failures on OS X when destination does not
222 support chflag operations. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
223
Antoine Pitrouc2b714c2012-05-10 20:17:46 +0200224- Issue #14157: Fix time.strptime failing without a year on February 29th.
225 Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
226
Jesus Ceaf2011e32012-05-10 05:01:11 +0200227- Issue #14768: os.path.expanduser('~/a') doesn't works correctly when HOME is '/'.
228
Senthil Kumaran7f6d4e12012-05-01 10:36:28 +0800229- Issue #13183: Fix pdb skipping frames after hitting a breakpoint and running
230 step. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
231
Antoine Pitrou38153162012-04-25 17:31:12 +0200232- Issue #14664: It is now possible to use @unittest.skip{If,Unless} on a
233 test class that doesn't inherit from TestCase (i.e. a mixin).
234
Lars Gustäbel231d4742012-04-24 22:42:08 +0200235- Issue #14160: TarFile.extractfile() failed to resolve symbolic links when
236 the links were not located in an archive subdirectory.
237
R David Murrayc313b1d2012-04-23 13:27:11 -0400238- Issue #14638: pydoc now treats non-string __name__ values as if they
239 were missing, instead of raising an error.
240
Senthil Kumaran4c20c4e2012-04-23 23:52:40 +0800241- Issue #13684: Fix httplib tunnel issue of infinite loops for certain sites
242 which send EOF without trailing \r\n.
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -0600243
Antoine Pitrou52849bf2012-04-19 23:55:01 +0200244- Issue #14308: Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is in the threading
245 module's active list after a fork().
246
Ezio Melottic45868e2012-04-18 19:08:41 -0600247- Issue #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain
248 a bare '/'.
249
Vinay Sajip7e9c9d52012-04-16 14:38:23 +0100250- Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
251
Mark Dickinson0407e962012-04-15 16:43:19 +0100252- Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
253 to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.
254
R David Murray9955ad42012-04-13 21:27:00 -0400255- Issue #14399: zipfile now recognizes that the archive has been modified even
256 if only the comment is changed. As a consequence of this fix, ZipFile is now
257 a new style class.
R David Murray3f4ccba2012-04-12 18:42:47 -0400258
Antoine Pitroufa1d8412012-04-09 00:47:24 +0200259- Issue #7978: SocketServer now restarts the select() call when EINTR is
260 returned. This avoids crashing the server loop when a signal is received.
261 Patch by Jerzy Kozera.
262
Andrew Svetlov8af87292012-03-31 14:34:16 +0300263- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
264 when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
265 has to use the built-in default key bindings.
266 There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
Andrew Svetlovc37db102012-03-29 19:54:58 +0300267
Giampaolo Rodola'96cb5d12012-03-22 16:06:43 +0100268- Issue #10340: asyncore - properly handle EINVAL in dispatcher constructor on
269 OSX; avoid to call handle_connect in case of a disconnected socket which
270 was not meant to connect.
271
R David Murrayb3f95d72012-03-21 15:02:30 -0400272- Issue #12757: Fix the skipping of doctests when python is run with -OO so
273 that it works in unittest's verbose mode as well as non-verbose mode.
274
Andrew Svetlov7c010ee2012-03-21 13:35:08 +0200275- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
276 (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
277
Giampaolo Rodola'3d3cf482012-03-20 16:46:57 +0100278- Issue #13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
279 attribute.
280
Senthil Kumaran51a65c92012-03-16 01:07:16 -0700281- Issue #10484: Fix the CGIHTTPServer's PATH_INFO handling problem.
282
Senthil Kumaran4c592112012-03-15 13:24:40 -0700283- Issue #11199: Fix the with urllib which hangs on particular ftp urls.
284
Martin v. Löwisf163efd2012-03-13 14:46:22 -0700285- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
286
Antoine Pitrouf60845b2012-03-11 19:29:12 +0100287- Issue #14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under
288 Windows when the child process has already exited.
289
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600290- Issue #14195: An issue that caused weakref.WeakSet instances to incorrectly
291 return True for a WeakSet instance 'a' in both 'a < a' and 'a > a' has been
292 fixed.
293
294- Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak sets to return a better approximation
295 when some objects are dead or dying. Moreover, the implementation is now
296 O(1) rather than O(n).
297
298- Issue #2945: Make the distutils upload command aware of bdist_rpm products.
299
300- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
301 scripts found in the Tools directory.
302
303- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
304 on Windows.
305
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +0200306Tests
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308
Nick Coghlana0933122012-06-17 19:03:39 +1000309- Issue #15043: test_gdb is now skipped entirely if gdb security settings
310 block loading of the gdb hooks
311
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +0200312- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
313 a test failure in test_ssl.
314
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +0200315Build
316-----
317
Martin v. Löwis33f8c3a2012-08-01 10:05:27 +0200318- Issue #8847: Disable COMDAT folding in Windows PGO builds.
319
Ned Deilyd8ec4642012-07-30 04:07:49 -0700320- Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.
321
Martin v. Löwised11a5d2012-05-20 10:42:17 +0200322- Issue #8767: Restore building with --disable-unicode.
323 Patch by Stefano Taschini.
324
Martin v. Löwisfd0afed2012-05-15 17:26:31 +0200325- Build against bzip2 1.0.6 and openssl 0.9.8x on Windows.
326
Charles-François Natali0d3db3a2012-04-12 19:11:54 +0200327- Issue #14557: Fix extensions build on HP-UX. Patch by Adi Roiban.
328
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +0200329- Issue #14437: Fix building the _io module under Cygwin.
330
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +0300331Documentation
Senthil Kumaran0c472c32012-07-22 19:36:03 -0700332-------------
Terry Jan Reedy45ed0122012-07-08 17:35:26 -0400333
334- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
335 execfile().
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +0300336
337- Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial.
338
Senthil Kumaran0c472c32012-07-22 19:36:03 -0700339- Issue #15250: Document that filecmp.dircmp compares files shallowly. Patch
340 contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
341
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600342
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -0700343What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 2?
344===============================================
345
Benjamin Petersonee933ec2012-03-15 12:25:54 -0500346*Release date: 2012-03-17*
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -0700347
348Library
349-------
350
351- Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash
352 table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a
353 denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with some
354 modifications by the expat project.
355
356
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600357What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 1?
358===============================================
359
360*Release date: 2012-02-23*
361
362Core and Builtins
363-----------------
364
Antoine Pitrouc66ed452012-02-15 02:51:43 +0100365- Issue #13020: Fix a reference leak when allocating a structsequence object
366 fails. Patch by Suman Saha.
367
Barry Warsaw1e13eb02012-02-20 20:42:21 -0500368- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: add -R command-line option and PYTHONHASHSEED
369 environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of
370 service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types. Patch
371 by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
372
Antoine Pitroud1c818a2012-01-24 17:44:06 +0100373- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
374 modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.
375
Jason R. Coombs042370e2011-12-26 10:15:15 -0500376- Issue #11638: Unicode strings in 'name' and 'version' no longer cause
377 UnicodeDecodeErrors.
378
Antoine Pitrou5b4b2da2011-12-15 14:15:31 +0100379- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
380 effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for
381 noticing.
382
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4bf21e22011-12-07 21:46:48 +0100383- Issue #13546: Fixed an overflow issue that could crash the intepreter when
384 calling sys.setrecursionlimit((1<<31)-1).
385
Antoine Pitrou30402542011-11-15 01:49:40 +0100386- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
387 already accepts them).
388
Petri Lehtinen8028dc22011-10-30 20:59:10 +0200389- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
390 setobject.c.
391
Benjamin Peterson0c0d7562011-10-27 08:21:59 -0400392- Issue #13268: Fix the assert statement when a tuple is passed as the message.
393
Petri Lehtinen8ffbab82011-10-24 20:59:29 +0300394- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
395 Patch by Suman Saha.
396
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +0800397- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
398 warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
399
Mark Hammond323b5da2011-10-17 11:05:36 +1100400- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
401 longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
402 embedded situations.
403
Benjamin Petersona7b09762011-10-15 13:43:21 -0400404- Issue #13186: Fix __delitem__ on old-style instances when invoked through
405 PySequence_DelItem.
406
Charles-François Natali40ab0022011-10-12 22:29:09 +0200407- Issue #13156: Revert the patch for issue #10517 (reset TLS upon fork()),
408 which was only relevant for the native pthread TLS implementation.
409
Victor Stinner63c22fa2011-09-23 19:37:03 +0200410- Issue #7732: Fix a crash on importing a module if a directory has the same
411 name than a Python module (e.g. "__init__.py"): don't close the file twice.
412
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +0100413- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that invoked undefined behaviour in
414 int.__pow__. These overflow checks were causing int.__pow__ to produce
415 incorrect results with recent versions of Clang, as a result of the
Mark Dickinsona96b0d12011-09-24 09:01:16 +0100416 compiler optimizing the check away. Also fix similar overflow checks
417 in list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These
418 bugs caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +0100419
Ezio Melotti15d6b652011-08-15 09:22:24 +0300420- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
421 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
422
Benjamin Peterson6c18ff02011-07-22 10:41:44 -0500423- Issues #12610 and #12609: Verify that user generated AST has correct string
424 and identifier types before compiling.
425
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400426- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
427 non-exception class.
Benjamin Petersonc3349cd2011-07-15 14:15:40 -0500428
Antoine Pitrou16166452011-07-12 22:04:20 +0200429- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionnary gets
430 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
431 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
432 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
433 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
434
Florent Xiclunaa1f948b2012-01-24 21:05:10 +0100435- Issue #12501: Remove Py3k warning for callable. callable() is supported
436 again in Python 3.2.
Victor Stinnerba8b3a22011-07-08 02:07:45 +0200437
Victor Stinner59729ff2011-07-05 11:28:19 +0200438- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read(), FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write() and
439 os.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
440
Victor Stinnerd3c7e172011-05-30 23:49:13 +0200441- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200442 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
443 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
444
Łukasz Langa7a153902011-10-18 17:16:00 +0200445- Issue #10860: httplib now correctly handles an empty port after port
446 delimiter in URLs.
447
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400448- dict_proxy objects now display their contents rather than just the class
449 name.
Raymond Hettingerbf7a2662011-06-30 00:44:36 +0100450
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200451Library
452-------
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +0200453
Petri Lehtinen4ab701b2012-02-21 13:58:40 +0200454- Issue #8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions
455 on 32-bit architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer.
456
Ezio Melotti36b73612012-02-21 09:22:16 +0200457- HTMLParser is now able to handle slashes in the start tag.
458
Charles-François Natali66f3cc62012-02-18 14:15:38 +0100459- Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in
460 SimpleXMLRPCServer upon malformed POST request.
461
Gregory P. Smith14dc5102012-02-16 00:44:50 -0800462- Issue #2489: pty.spawn could consume 100% cpu when it encountered an EOF.
463
Antoine Pitroudd7e0712012-02-15 22:25:27 +0100464- Issue #13014: Fix a possible reference leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
465
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +0200466- Issue #13987: HTMLParser is now able to handle EOFs in the middle of a
Ezio Melotti65d36da2012-02-15 13:19:10 +0200467 construct and malformed start tags.
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +0200468
Antoine Pitrouc39cd782012-02-15 02:42:46 +0100469- Issue #13015: Fix a possible reference leak in defaultdict.__repr__.
470 Patch by Suman Saha.
471
Meador Ingeff337cc2012-02-13 22:22:06 -0600472- Issue #13979: A bug in ctypes.util.find_library that caused
473 the wrong library name to be returned has been fixed.
474
Éric Araujoe897a742012-02-15 16:28:20 +0100475- Issue #1326113: distutils' build_ext command --libraries option now
476 correctly parses multiple values separated by whitespace or commas.
477
Ezio Melottif1174432012-02-13 16:28:54 +0200478- Issue #13993: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken end tags.
479
Ezio Melotti4b92cc32012-02-13 16:10:44 +0200480- Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments.
481
Petri Lehtinen587209f2012-02-12 21:03:02 +0200482- Issue #9750: Fix sqlite3.Connection.iterdump on tables and fields
483 with a name that is a keyword or contains quotes. Patch by Marko
484 Kohtala.
485
Florent Xiclunac2279652012-02-12 14:49:03 +0100486- Issue #13994: Earlier partial revert of Distutils enhancements in 2.7
Ned Deilyc47a4592012-02-11 20:40:24 +0100487 has left two versions of customize_compiler, the original in
488 distutils.sysconfig and another copy in distutils.ccompiler, with some
489 parts of distutils calling one and others using the other.
490 Complete the revert back to only having one in distutils.sysconfig as
491 is the case in 3.x.
492
Ned Deily0d0ea482012-02-10 12:59:06 +0100493- Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
494 Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
495 Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
496 64-bit/32-bit Pythons. If the user does not explicitly override
497 the default C compiler by setting the CC environment variable,
498 Distutils will now attempt to compile extension modules with clang
499 if gcc-4.2 is required but not found. Also as a convenience, if
500 the user does explicitly set CC, substitute its value as the default
501 compiler in the Distutils LDSHARED configuration variable for OS X.
502 (Note, the python.org 32-bit-only Pythons use gcc-4.0 and the 10.4u
503 SDK, neither of which are available in Xcode 4. This change does not
504 attempt to override settings to support their use with Xcode 4.)
505
Senthil Kumaran59e7c8f2012-02-09 18:22:01 +0800506- Issue #9021: Add an introduction to the copy module documentation.
507
Senthil Kumaran607e31e2012-02-09 17:43:31 +0800508- Issue #6005: Examples in the socket library documentation use sendall, where
509 relevant, instead send method.
510
Petri Lehtinenc7fd5232011-05-09 12:24:09 +0200511- Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
512 raise a ProgrammingError now.
513
Ned Deily2c8bf042012-02-06 00:55:50 +0100514- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failures with OS X framework builds.
515
Terry Jan Reedyadb87e22012-02-05 15:10:55 -0500516- Issue #964437 Make IDLE help window non-modal.
517 Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
518
Ned Deily61c95342012-02-04 18:35:23 +0100519- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
520 module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
521
Ned Deilyfbc56fd2012-02-03 02:39:49 +0100522- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
523
Petri Lehtinen0518f472012-02-01 22:20:12 +0200524- Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
525
Terry Jan Reedyb98000a2012-01-31 02:09:25 -0500526- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
527 Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
528
Antoine Pitrou88c51e82012-01-28 22:01:59 +0100529- Issue #13806: The size check in audioop decompression functions was too
530 strict and could reject valid compressed data. Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
531
Antoine Pitroud358e052012-01-27 09:42:45 +0100532- Issue #13885: CVE-2011-3389: the _ssl module would always disable the CBC
533 IV attack countermeasure.
534
Senthil Kumaranb05f91d2012-01-21 11:45:12 +0800535- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
536
Nadeem Vawdad7664de2012-01-19 00:40:46 +0200537- Issue #13781: Prevent gzip.GzipFile from using the dummy filename provided by
538 file objects opened with os.fdopen().
539
Antoine Pitrou3b6a3142012-01-17 17:13:04 +0100540- Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module.
541 Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
542
Jesus Cea4a8ba192012-01-18 03:51:38 +0100543- Issue #13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness
544 in the directory name.
545
Senthil Kumaranbcd833f2012-01-11 00:09:24 +0800546- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
547 Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto and Michele Orrù.
548
Antoine Pitroud76088d2012-01-03 22:46:48 +0100549- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
550 (except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
551
Senthil Kumaran84c18aa2011-12-23 11:14:56 +0800552- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
553
Lars Gustäbel7d4d0742011-12-21 19:27:50 +0100554- Issue #13639: Accept unicode filenames in tarfile.open(mode="w|gz").
555
Antoine Pitroub8572a12011-12-21 10:16:14 +0100556- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
557
Antoine Pitrou7a3d8ae2011-12-18 19:27:45 +0100558- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances. Patch by
559 Cédric Krier.
560
Charles-François Natali41616302011-12-18 18:22:24 +0100561- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
562 condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
563
Charles-François Natalif3d35f02011-12-18 15:52:48 +0100564- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
565 redirection or an error.
566
Ned Deilyd8fdbad2011-12-14 15:05:42 -0800567- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint
568 files, display a message popup and continue rather than crash.
569 (original patch by Roger Serwy)
570
Lars Gustäbel9a388632011-12-06 13:07:09 +0100571- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
572 other than 900k.
573
Raymond Hettingerf5377022011-12-11 22:31:09 -0800574- Issue #13573: The csv.writer now uses the repr() for floats rather than str().
575 This allows floats to round-trip without loss of precision.
576
Petri Lehtinen49e49a22011-12-02 21:09:30 +0200577- Issue #13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.
578
Antoine Pitroua5d5bb92011-11-25 21:28:15 +0100579- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
580 seed for filename generation in the tempfile module. Patch by Brian
581 Harring.
582
Antoine Pitrouaa1c9672011-11-23 01:39:19 +0100583- Issue #13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a
584 certificate with a subjectAltName. Patch by Robert Xiao.
585
Victor Stinner53853c32011-11-22 22:20:13 +0100586- Issue #13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.
587
Antoine Pitrou5aa7df32011-11-21 20:16:44 +0100588- Issue #13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
589 raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would block.
590 Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise BlockingIOError, but
591 RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when the call would block.
592 Patch by sbt.
593
Ezio Melotti00dc60b2011-11-18 18:00:40 +0200594- Issue #13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.
595
Ezio Melotti93bbb6a2011-11-18 17:30:28 +0200596- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
597 node when it is the only child of an element. Initial patch by Dan
598 Kenigsberg.
599
Ned Deily174c4f82011-11-15 18:29:02 -0800600- Issue #8793: Prevent IDLE crash when given strings with invalid hex escape
601 sequences.
602
Ezio Melotti0f1571c2011-11-14 18:04:05 +0200603- Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
604 handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.
605
Antoine Pitrou6a570d62011-11-10 00:33:50 +0100606- Issue #13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
607 when called with a timeout. Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.
608
Petri Lehtinen416ecff2011-11-05 10:18:50 +0200609- Issue #3067: Enhance the documentation and docstring of
610 locale.setlocale().
611
Petri Lehtinen49aa72e2011-11-05 09:50:37 +0200612- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
613 are read correctly.
614
Florent Xicluna5f761d72011-11-04 10:15:57 +0100615- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
616
Florent Xiclunac4a11bd2011-11-01 23:47:46 +0100617- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
618
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +0200619- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
620 ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
621
622- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
Senthil Kumaran87e58552011-11-01 02:44:45 +0800623 when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
624
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +0200625- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
Ned Deily86d669b2011-10-30 19:58:04 -0700626 (Patch by Roger Serwy)
627
Florent Xicluna67d5d0e2011-10-29 03:38:56 +0200628- Issue #7334: close source files on ElementTree.parse and iterparse.
629
Vinay Sajipc515eba2011-10-24 23:26:00 +0100630- Issue #13232: logging: Improved logging of exceptions in the presence of
631 multiple encodings.
632
Charles-François Natali46f990e2011-10-24 18:43:51 +0200633- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
634 before all tasks have completed.
635
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +0200636- Issue #1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
637 arguments with the system default encoding just like the write() method
Éric Araujob21f51a2011-10-23 04:37:51 +0200638 does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer. This also fixes handling of
639 unicode input in the shlex module (#6988, #1170).
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +0200640
Florent Xicluna47fb1922011-10-20 23:21:58 +0200641- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
642
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +0800643- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
644 semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
645
Senthil Kumaranddd40312011-10-20 01:38:35 +0800646- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
647 earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
648
Nadeem Vawdadeb1ce72011-10-17 19:33:38 +0200649- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
650 now available on Windows.
651
Éric Araujo017e5352011-10-09 07:11:19 +0200652- Issue #13114: Fix the distutils commands check and register when the
653 long description is a Unicode string with non-ASCII characters.
654
Ned Deilybd9d07c2011-10-06 14:29:49 -0700655- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
656 contents cannot be read.
657
658- Issue #7425: Prevent pydoc -k failures due to module import errors.
659 (Backport to 2.7 of existing 3.x fix)
660
Antoine Pitrouace2ccf2011-10-04 13:38:04 +0200661- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
662 Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
663
Antoine Pitrou561a8212011-10-04 09:34:48 +0200664- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
665 metaclass is registered with copy_reg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and
666 Craig Citro.
667
Charles-François Natali564f8902011-09-29 19:43:01 +0200668- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
669 Thomas Jarosch.
670
Victor Stinner51b71982011-09-23 01:15:32 +0200671- Issue #12931: xmlrpclib now encodes Unicode URI to ISO-8859-1, instead of
672 failing with a UnicodeDecodeError.
673
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +0200674- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files will now correctly report
675 Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or Download-URL field is
676 present.
677
Éric Araujo0f2dbf32011-09-03 00:47:07 +0200678- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
679 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200680
Lars Gustäbel8babfdf2011-09-05 17:04:18 +0200681- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
682 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
683 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
684 information was lost.
685
Éric Araujo429b8902011-08-30 01:48:59 +0200686- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
687 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
688
Charles-François Natalifda7b372011-08-28 16:22:33 +0200689- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
690 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
691
Nadeem Vawdabbabbae2011-08-28 11:23:57 +0200692- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
693 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
694
Charles-François Natali2a34eb32011-08-25 21:20:54 +0200695- Issue #12786: Set communication pipes used by subprocess.Popen CLOEXEC to
696 avoid them being inherited by other subprocesses.
697
Antoine Pitrou77657e42011-08-24 22:41:05 +0200698- Issue #4106: Fix occasional exceptions printed out by multiprocessing on
699 interpreter shutdown.
700
Antoine Pitroua1a8da82011-08-23 19:54:20 +0200701- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
702 Pipe.
703
Antoine Pitrou808cec52011-08-20 15:40:58 +0200704- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
705 could appear on io.BufferedRandom streams.
706
Victor Stinneracacbaa2011-08-20 14:02:38 +0200707- Issue #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python
708 is compiled on Linux 3.
709
Jesus Cead256ca12011-09-19 16:57:18 +0200710- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
711
Éric Araujoe7329f42011-08-19 03:07:39 +0200712- Issue #9173: Let shutil._make_archive work if the logger argument is None.
713
Charles-François Natalib02302c2011-08-18 17:18:28 +0200714- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
715 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
716
Barry Warsaw39935f42011-08-15 19:50:35 -0400717- Issue #12752: Fix regression which prevented locale.normalize() from
718 accepting unicode strings.
719
Senthil Kumaranf432aec2011-08-03 18:31:59 +0800720- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
721 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
722
Éric Araujo33af2632011-08-02 03:16:12 +0200723- Issue #11933: Fix incorrect mtime comparison in distutils.
724
Éric Araujo560bf852011-07-31 02:04:00 +0200725- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
726 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
727
Éric Araujo9a528302011-07-29 17:34:35 +0200728- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
729 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
730
Charles-François Natali0cf7e252011-07-27 19:36:40 +0200731- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
732
Raymond Hettinger55e5e272011-07-28 23:56:38 -0700733- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
734 collections when it is done.
735
Ross Lagerwalld8e39012011-07-27 18:54:53 +0200736- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
737 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
738
Ross Lagerwall528c4ad2011-07-25 07:23:58 +0200739- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
740 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
741
Charles-François Natali3de8c732011-07-24 22:33:35 +0200742- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
743
Antoine Pitrou4cfae022011-07-24 02:51:01 +0200744- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup and setting/getting locales under Turkish
745 locales.
746
Nadeem Vawda0d2889f2011-07-23 16:13:01 +0200747- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib when using FTP.
Nadeem Vawdab42c53e2011-07-23 15:51:16 +0200748
Charles-François Natali97781b02011-07-22 23:43:42 +0200749- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
750
Charles-François Natali4929eb92011-07-21 19:41:04 +0200751- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
752
Antoine Pitrou495ee8f2011-07-20 00:26:23 +0200753- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
754 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
755 Linux 3.0.
756
R David Murray95225952011-07-18 21:34:04 -0400757- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
758 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
759
Antoine Pitrou304f0f92011-07-15 21:22:50 +0200760- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
761 Andreas Stührk.
762
Charles-François Natali26591402011-07-14 19:49:02 +0200763- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
764
Victor Stinnerbf547fd2011-07-13 21:47:31 +0200765- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
766 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
767
Victor Stinnere7901312011-07-05 14:08:01 +0200768- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
769 if the process has only one pipe.
770
Victor Stinner65c15352011-07-04 03:05:37 +0200771- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
772 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
773
Charles-François Natali414d0fa2011-07-02 13:56:19 +0200774- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
775 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
776
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -0700777- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
778 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
779 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
780 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
781 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
782 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
783 still possible to globally override the default by setting
784 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
785 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
786 was built.
787
Raymond Hettinger2c316a32011-06-25 17:14:53 +0200788- Issue #11802: The cache in filecmp now has a maximum size of 100 so that
789 it won't grow without bound.
790
Ross Lagerwallffa8e2f2011-06-25 09:55:10 +0200791- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
792 Kitada.
793
R David Murrayf1138bb2011-06-17 22:23:04 -0400794- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
795 times without error, and _ProxyFile now closes the wrapped file.
796
Victor Stinnerc74a6ba2011-06-17 14:06:27 +0200797- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
798 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
799 written by Ezio Melotti.
800
Benjamin Peterson0eb4ac42011-06-11 15:53:11 -0500801- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
802 functions.
803
R David Murray873c5832011-06-09 16:01:09 -0400804- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
805
Brian Curtincaea7e82011-06-08 19:29:53 -0500806- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
807 instead of os.stat.
808
Mark Dickinsona493ca32011-06-04 18:24:15 +0100809- Issue #12080: Fix a performance issue in Decimal._power_exact that caused
810 some corner-case Decimal.__pow__ calls to take an unreasonably long time.
811
Raymond Hettinger45b08292011-06-02 20:40:35 -0700812- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
813
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400814- sys.setcheckinterval() now updates the current ticker count as well as
815 updating the check interval, so if the user decreases the check interval,
816 the ticker doesn't have to wind down to zero from the old starting point
817 before the new interval takes effect. And if the user increases the
818 interval, it makes sure the new limit takes effect right away rather have an
819 early task switch before recognizing the new interval.
Raymond Hettinger19b851d2011-06-01 18:21:42 -0700820
Victor Stinner776e69b2011-06-01 01:03:00 +0200821- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
822 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
823 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
824
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400825Extension Modules
826-----------------
827
Meador Ingefe7aa492012-05-28 13:52:59 -0500828- Issue #9041: An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and
829 ctypes.c_float that caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the
830 case of overflow has been fixed.
831
Jesus Cea23fbd8c2012-01-17 00:17:10 +0100832- bsddb module: Erratic behaviour of "DBEnv->rep_elect()" because a typo.
833 Possible crash.
834
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdee76e62012-01-13 22:53:25 +0100835- Issue #13774: json: Fix a SystemError when a bogus encoding is passed to
836 json.loads().
837
Charles-François Natali3aa59e32012-01-02 15:38:27 +0100838- Issue #9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
839 Vilmos Nebehaj.
840
Nadeem Vawda36248152011-10-13 13:52:46 +0200841- Issue #13159: FileIO, BZ2File, and the built-in file class now use a
842 linear-time buffer growth strategy instead of a quadratic one.
843
Charles-François Natali9ffcbf72011-10-06 19:09:45 +0200844- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
845 would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
846 writer got cleared by the GC.
847
Meador Ingead349a12011-10-03 21:34:04 -0500848- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
849
Meador Ingefe150032011-09-27 20:35:28 -0500850- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
851 Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
852
Jesus Ceac23484b2011-09-21 03:47:39 +0200853- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
854 file descriptor was actually received.
855
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc439c25e2011-09-12 20:12:09 +0200856- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
857 object triggers the garbage collector.
858
Jesus Cea6ebaca12011-09-10 04:35:18 +0200859- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
860 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
861
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccf316a12011-09-02 20:32:23 +0200862- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
863 a string.
864
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3d7f2362011-08-30 21:04:35 +0200865- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
866 some functions like file.write().
867
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400868- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
869 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
870 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
871
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700872Build
873-----
874
Martin v. Löwisa1b2af82012-02-21 18:12:02 +0100875- Issue #6807: Run msisupport.mak earlier.
876
Martin v. Löwisef281bd2012-02-21 17:07:32 +0100877- Issue #10580: Minor grammar change in Windows installer.
878
Ned Deilyc5df5632012-02-19 02:19:12 +0100879- Issue #12627: Implement PEP 394 for Python 2.7 ("python2").
880
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700881- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
882 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
883 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
884 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
885
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -0400886Tools/Demos
887-----------
888
Nadeem Vawdaf00011a2012-02-22 11:40:09 +0200889- Issue #14053: patchcheck.py ("make patchcheck") now works with MQ patches.
890 Patch by Francisco Martín Brugué.
891
Gregory P. Smith12426992012-02-12 15:51:21 -0800892- Issue #13930: 2to3 is now able to write its converted output files to another
893 directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
894 suffix. See its new -o, -W and --add-suffix options. This makes it more
895 useful in many automated code translation workflows.
896
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -0400897- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
898 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
899
Victor Stinner99cff3f2011-12-19 13:59:58 +0100900- Issue #13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
901 traceback if Python is optimized.
902
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +0200903Tests
904-----
905
Martin v. Löwisc02e1e62012-07-29 16:30:50 +0200906- Issue #15467: Move helpers for __sizeof__ tests into test_support.
907 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
908
Petri Lehtinen437b1492012-02-17 21:34:41 +0200909- Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test.
910 Initial patch by Torsten Landschoff.
911
Ned Deily1aacd7b2011-10-31 16:14:52 -0700912- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
913 PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
914
Barry Warsawbf0cafa2011-10-28 16:16:58 -0400915- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
916
Charles-François Natalicdaafe02011-08-23 19:42:02 +0200917- Issue #12821: Fix test_fcntl failures on OpenBSD 5.
918
Éric Araujo498da2c2011-07-31 17:59:28 +0200919- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
920 Python.
921
Ned Deily0ab67ee2011-07-13 15:05:31 -0700922- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
923 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
924
Antoine Pitrou4a4a0fe2011-07-09 02:34:05 +0200925- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
926 failure in name resolution.
927
Jesus Ceacb65f322011-11-08 16:06:44 +0100928- Issue #11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'
929 in test_telnetlib.py.
930
Jesus Cea71094b52011-11-08 15:54:42 +0100931- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
932
Antoine Pitrou29603082011-07-08 19:40:15 +0200933- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
934 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
935 Web site.
936
Antoine Pitroua4d58d22011-07-08 19:14:19 +0200937- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
938 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
939 is now skipped instead.
940
Ned Deily46268c42011-07-03 21:52:35 -0700941- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
942 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
943 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
944
Ned Deily63144c62011-06-28 00:39:19 -0700945- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that
946 test_build_ext of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when
947 run outside of a build directory.
948
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700949- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
950 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
951
Ned Deily64e59952011-06-27 23:09:31 -0700952- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
953 on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
954
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +0200955- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
956 iso2022_kr).
957
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +0200958Documentation
959-------------
960
Petri Lehtinena15a8d22012-03-01 21:28:00 +0200961- Issues #13491 and #13995: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation.
962 Initial patch for #13491 by Johannes Vogel.
Petri Lehtinen002b2022012-02-16 21:42:34 +0200963
Petri Lehtinenfe6f9d02012-02-02 21:11:28 +0200964- Issue #13402: Document absoluteness of sys.executable.
965
Brett Cannon64b2b6a2012-01-26 18:32:24 -0500966- Issue #13883: PYTHONCASEOK also works on OS X, OS/2, and RiscOS.
967
Meador Ingeda747c32012-01-19 00:17:44 -0600968- Issue #2134: The tokenize documentation has been clarified to explain why
969 all operator and delimiter tokens are treated as token.OP tokens.
970
Meador Inge52957182011-12-03 12:13:42 -0600971- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
972 io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
973
Nick Coghlan86711572011-10-24 22:19:40 +1000974- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
975 functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
976
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +0200977- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for SocketServer examples.
978
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200979
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000980What's New in Python 2.7.2?
981===========================
982
Benjamin Peterson9843ba52011-06-11 09:42:44 -0500983*Release date: 2011-06-11*
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -0500984
Benjamin Peterson43ee1a52011-06-10 11:32:52 -0500985Library
986-------
987
988- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
989
Benjamin Peterson4ba009d2011-05-31 18:59:49 -0500990Extension Modules
991-----------------
992
993- Issue #1221: Make pyexpat.__version__ equal to the Python version.
994
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -0500995
996What's New in Python 2.7.2 release candidate 1?
997===============================================
998
Benjamin Petersoncd207052011-05-29 16:50:27 -0500999*Release date: 2011-05-29*
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001000
1001Core and Builtins
1002-----------------
1003
Ned Deily482f9082011-05-28 00:11:54 -07001004- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
1005 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
1006 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
1007 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
1008
Benjamin Petersonef1122c2011-06-03 16:17:22 -05001009- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. This allows old-style classes to have
1010 __dir__. It also causes errors besides AttributeError found on lookup to be
1011 propagated.
Benjamin Peterson8de87a62011-05-23 16:11:05 -05001012
Victor Stinner2c585f62011-05-10 00:22:59 +02001013- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
1014 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
1015
Victor Stinner0a92d182011-05-03 15:09:24 +02001016- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
1017 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
1018 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
1019
Victor Stinner645b9f62011-05-03 15:06:11 +02001020- Issue #8651: Fix "z#" format of PyArg_Parse*() function: the size was not
1021 written if PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
1022
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +02001023- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
1024 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
1025 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner97cf5852011-05-01 23:51:11 +02001026 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +02001027
Antoine Pitrou1f9eb152011-04-27 19:26:06 +02001028- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
1029 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
1030 by Charles-François Natali.
1031
Ezio Melottie3685f62011-04-26 05:12:51 +03001032- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
1033 accepted too.
1034
Ezio Melottic283a852011-04-15 16:14:04 +03001035- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
1036 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
1037 chars (e.g. u"\U00012345"[0]).
1038
Victor Stinner5de51ac2011-04-09 16:09:08 +02001039- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
1040 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
1041 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
1042
Mark Dickinson874d59e2011-03-26 12:18:00 +00001043- Issue #11144: Ensure that int(a_float) returns an int whenever possible.
1044 Previously, there were some corner cases where a long was returned even
1045 though the result was within the range of an int.
1046
Antoine Pitrou2ddaaff2011-03-09 12:54:00 +01001047- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
1048 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1049
Antoine Pitrou3013b162011-01-18 19:06:19 +00001050- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
1051 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1052
Benjamin Peterson9b911ca2011-01-12 15:49:47 +00001053- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
1054 class.
1055
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00001056- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
1057 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
1058 Patch by Matt Bandy.
1059
Raymond Hettinger57a86892011-01-25 21:43:29 +00001060- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
1061
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcac514c82011-01-03 00:50:57 +00001062- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
1063 can now handle dates after 2038.
1064
R. David Murray64a1e7c2010-12-15 01:36:03 +00001065- Issue #4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly
1066 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
1067 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
1068
Jesus Cea44e81682011-04-20 16:39:15 +02001069- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
1070 Patch by Torsten Becker.
1071
Benjamin Peterson07f54512010-12-11 04:25:57 +00001072- Issue #10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
1073
Mark Dickinsonecf8ec62010-12-04 12:30:41 +00001074- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
1075 float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be
1076 0.0, not -0.0.
1077
Eli Bendersky680e6eb2011-03-04 06:14:56 +00001078- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
1079 empty, instead of OverflowError.
1080
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001081Library
1082-------
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001083
Ned Deilyd8b17232011-07-26 18:16:08 -07001084- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
1085 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
1086
Benjamin Peterson4fa68ab2011-05-26 09:56:41 -05001087- Issue #12161: Cause StringIO.getvalue() to raise a ValueError when used on a
1088 closed StringIO instance.
1089
Victor Stinnerdbfba162011-05-26 13:37:25 +02001090- Issue #12182: Fix pydoc.HTMLDoc.multicolumn() if Python uses the new (true)
1091 division (python -Qnew). Patch written by Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve.
1092
Victor Stinnerdaf17e92011-05-25 22:52:37 +02001093- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
1094
Victor Stinner5100a402011-05-25 22:15:36 +02001095- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
1096 if the file is closed.
1097
Charles-François Natalib94e0cd2011-05-24 23:10:54 +02001098- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, use makefile() to wrap the SSL socket to avoid
1099 heap fragmentation and MemoryError with some malloc implementations.
1100
Victor Stinner40b41e12011-05-24 22:29:13 +02001101- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
1102 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
1103 final argument is True.
1104
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02001105- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
1106 to be able to unload the module.
1107
Ronald Oussorenb13cacf2011-05-17 15:13:46 +02001108- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
1109 with Tk 8.5.
1110
Ronald Oussoren372954e2011-05-17 13:22:30 +02001111- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
1112 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
1113
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02001114- Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is
Ronald Oussoren53b6a5f2011-05-15 16:51:10 +02001115 set in shell.
1116
Nadeem Vawda0cc4fd92011-05-14 14:29:07 +02001117- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
1118 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
1119
Antoine Pitrouee46a7b2011-05-13 00:31:52 +02001120- Issue #12062: In the `io` module, fix a flushing bug when doing a certain
1121 type of I/O sequence on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading,
1122 seeking a bit forward, writing, then seeking before the previous write but
1123 still within buffered data, and writing again).
1124
Antoine Pitrou47d1d0d2011-05-10 19:16:03 +02001125- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
1126 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
1127
Victor Stinnerb1241f92011-05-10 01:52:03 +02001128- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
1129
Martin v. Löwis591c2df2011-05-09 08:19:13 +02001130- Issue #11164: Remove obsolete allnodes test from minidom test.
1131
Antoine Pitrou21ce8f02011-05-07 19:59:33 +02001132- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
1133 by Kasun Herath.
1134
R David Murray8b26c4b2011-05-06 21:56:22 -04001135- Issue 11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
1136 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
1137 previous value of the mtime.
1138
Ronald Oussoren58d6b1b2011-05-06 11:31:33 +02001139- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
1140 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
1141 for the case.
1142
Ezio Melottidf8a8f72011-05-04 14:40:53 +03001143- Issue #11982: fix json.loads('""') to return u'' rather than ''.
1144
Victor Stinner112d48a2011-05-03 14:36:36 +02001145- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
1146 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
1147
Senthil Kumaran011525e2011-04-28 15:30:31 +08001148- Issue #10761: Fix tarfile.extractall failure when symlinked files are
1149 present. Initial patch by Scott Leerssen.
1150
Ezio Melotti34b32d62011-04-27 09:45:46 +03001151- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
1152 strings are too long.
1153
Senthil Kumaran5dc68682011-04-26 21:17:45 +08001154- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
1155
Victor Stinner33feeab2011-04-18 16:33:28 +02001156- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
1157 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
1158 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
1159
Raymond Hettingere0156c42011-04-19 09:48:39 -07001160- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
1161 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
1162
Martin v. Löwis2d253dd2011-04-17 22:29:40 +02001163- Issue #11442: Add a charset parameter to the Content-type in SimpleHTTPServer
1164 to avoid XSS attacks.
1165
Senthil Kumaranddaea1c2011-04-15 18:07:33 +08001166- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
1167 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1168
Raymond Hettinger37c0fe52011-04-15 13:12:21 -07001169- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
1170
Senthil Kumarana99b7612011-04-14 12:54:35 +08001171- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
1172 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1173
Ezio Melotti2b96f092011-04-13 05:37:29 +03001174- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
1175 _json is not available.
1176
1177- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran0531d6f2011-04-13 09:47:20 +08001178 url contains #fragment.
1179
R David Murrayea8b6ef2011-04-12 21:00:26 -04001180- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
1181 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
1182
brian.curtin16f98b72011-04-11 18:05:33 -05001183- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
1184 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
1185
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03001186- Issue #4877: Fix a segfault in xml.parsers.expat while attempting to parse
1187 a closed file.
1188
Raymond Hettingere4579c32011-04-11 17:27:42 -07001189- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
1190 It was causing a failed import in the Turkish locale where the locale
1191 sensitive str.upper() method caused a name mismatch.
1192
Antoine Pitrou7dfc8742011-04-11 00:26:42 +02001193- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
1194 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
1195 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1196
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03001197- Issue #7311: Fix HTMLParser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
Ezio Melotti9f1ffb22011-04-05 20:40:52 +03001198
Ross Lagerwall104c3f12011-04-05 15:24:34 +02001199- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
1200
guido@google.com2bc23b82011-03-24 10:44:17 -07001201- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
guido@google.comdb3080e2011-03-28 13:53:40 -07001202 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001203
Benjamin Peterson77d46602011-03-28 17:32:31 -05001204- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
1205 arguments.
1206
Martin v. Löwis03f7e232011-03-27 20:58:52 +02001207- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
1208
Mark Dickinsond687be02011-03-27 16:15:24 +01001209- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
1210 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
1211
Mark Dickinson1829e8f2011-03-27 15:32:05 +01001212- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
1213 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
1214 documentation.
1215
Martin v. Löwis49b0ce02011-03-27 10:10:46 +02001216- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi.
1217
Raymond Hettinger9aa5a342011-03-25 16:00:13 -07001218- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
1219 that start with a leading underscore.
1220
Mark Dickinsonf9e9a6f2011-03-25 22:01:06 +00001221- Issue #11673: Fix multiprocessing Array and RawArray constructors to accept a
1222 size of type 'long', rather than only accepting 'int'.
1223
Éric Araujo374274d2011-03-19 04:29:36 +01001224- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
1225 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
1226
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04001227- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
1228 setup and teardown.
1229
Ronald Oussoren2ab59942011-03-16 09:47:15 -04001230- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
1231 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
1232 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
1233
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04001234- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
1235 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussoren1aa999c2011-03-14 18:53:59 -04001236
Mark Dickinson2c8c62e2011-03-12 11:05:32 +00001237- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when
1238 the context rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
1239
Ned Deily9d4836e2011-03-09 02:31:55 -08001240- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
1241 initialization fails.
1242
Antoine Pitroud6f3a3e2011-03-06 02:03:34 +01001243- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
1244 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
1245 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1246
R. David Murray1a337902011-03-03 18:17:40 +00001247- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
1248 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
1249 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
1250
Giampaolo Rodolàd65224f2011-03-03 14:17:51 +00001251- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
1252 on accept(), send() and recv().
1253
Antoine Pitroud3f6ea12011-02-26 23:35:27 +00001254- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
1255 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
1256
Antoine Pitrou6439c002011-02-25 21:35:47 +00001257- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
1258 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
1259
Georg Brandl28046022011-02-25 11:01:04 +00001260- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
1261 argparse.
1262
Antoine Pitrouf4d2b3d2011-02-21 23:59:20 +00001263- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
1264 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
1265 32-bit Windows.
1266
Georg Brandl52f83952011-02-25 10:39:23 +00001267- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
1268 membership of non-weakrefable objects.
1269
1270- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
1271
1272- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
1273
Barry Warsaw42bb7ca2011-02-14 20:04:00 +00001274- Issue #11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix !=
1275 --exec-prefix, which caused Python to not start.
1276
R. David Murray008c0442011-02-11 23:03:13 +00001277- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
1278 a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
1279
Antoine Pitrou820021e2011-01-31 21:47:45 +00001280- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
1281 Patch by Stan Mihai.
1282
Ned Deily60651532011-01-31 00:52:49 +00001283- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
1284 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
1285 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
1286
Ned Deily2a6f4b32011-01-30 00:18:47 +00001287- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
1288 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
1289 64-/32-bit installer variant.
1290
Ned Deilyefc527a2011-01-29 19:30:39 +00001291- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
1292 commands.
1293
Vinay Sajipcdb83882011-01-21 23:35:57 +00001294- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
1295
Antoine Pitrou8a0eede2011-01-20 21:20:18 +00001296- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
1297 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1298
Antoine Pitrou63a3f152011-01-19 15:27:24 +00001299- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
1300 a symbol named FSTAT.
1301
Ned Deily4a705502011-01-18 04:33:22 +00001302- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
1303 Cocoa AquaTk.
1304
Antoine Pitrou9989d852011-01-15 16:18:57 +00001305- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
1306 length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
1307 is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1308
Terry Reedyf7dd7992011-01-10 22:15:19 +00001309- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
1310
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00001311- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime
1312 function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
1313 false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range
1314 accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
1315 dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
1316 by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
1317
Georg Brandl6adb9792011-01-09 07:53:14 +00001318- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
1319 node twice.
1320
Antoine Pitrou1f1613f2011-01-06 18:30:26 +00001321- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
1322 on an existing file.
1323
Antoine Pitrou77c1b382011-01-06 17:19:05 +00001324- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
1325 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
1326
Antoine Pitrou91ce0d92011-01-03 18:45:09 +00001327- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
1328 file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
1329 patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1330
Antoine Pitroub0614612011-01-02 20:04:52 +00001331- Issue #4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
1332 DeprecationWarning.
1333
Raymond Hettinger8ebebd82011-01-02 01:03:26 +00001334- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
1335
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001336- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
Senthil Kumaran559395f2010-12-29 06:30:19 +00001337 variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's
1338 request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
1339 params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
1340
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001341- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
Terry Reedy0df73672010-12-28 19:53:32 +00001342
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001343- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murray08fc7012010-12-28 19:11:03 +00001344 browsers actually parse cookies.
1345
R. David Murray5360d002010-12-27 19:17:17 +00001346- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
1347 email.header.Header.encode.
1348
R. David Murray5874ed62010-12-26 22:29:53 +00001349- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
1350 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
1351 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
1352
Antoine Pitroufc9ead62010-12-21 21:26:55 +00001353- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
1354
Daniel Stutzbach57cf0af2011-01-04 18:47:17 +00001355- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
Michael Foorde6e0e262010-12-19 15:52:56 +00001356 about input.
1357
Michael Foorda17f0762010-12-19 14:53:19 +00001358- Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
1359
Antoine Pitroud7b6ac62010-12-18 18:18:21 +00001360- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
1361 to avoid denial of services from the other party.
1362
R. David Murray3f752ab2010-12-18 17:22:18 +00001363- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
1364
1365- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray7a697252010-12-18 03:52:09 +00001366 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
1367
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001368- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
1369 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
1370
Senthil Kumaran5c7fd6e2010-12-17 04:56:02 +00001371- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
1372 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001373
Antoine Pitrou47d9b0e2010-12-16 17:11:34 +00001374- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
1375 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1376
Éric Araujoe04c13c2010-12-15 21:15:25 +00001377- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
1378
R. David Murraydacb8042010-12-14 14:34:16 +00001379- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
1380 causes debug mode to fail.
1381
Ronald Oussoren8ec374c2010-12-07 16:02:59 +00001382- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
1383
Ronald Oussoren517858a2010-12-07 16:13:17 +00001384- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
1385 platforms).
1386
Antoine Pitrou4cb64ad2010-12-03 19:31:52 +00001387- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
1388 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
1389 current process.
1390
Éric Araujofb3de6b2010-12-03 19:24:49 +00001391- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
1392
R. David Murrayd75cc912010-12-02 03:16:23 +00001393- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
1394
Gregory P. Smith312efbc2010-12-14 15:02:53 +00001395- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
1396 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
1397 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
1398
Steven Bethardf8583ac2011-01-24 20:40:15 +00001399- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
1400 argparse.FileType.
1401
Steven Bethard3f69a052011-03-26 19:59:02 +01001402- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
1403
1404- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
1405
Steven Bethard5e0062d2011-03-26 21:50:38 +01001406- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
1407 their children.
1408
Steven Bethardbc3b1042011-03-27 13:57:55 +02001409- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
1410
Steven Betharde3c11b42011-04-04 01:47:52 +02001411- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
1412
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00001413Extension Modules
1414-----------------
1415
Benjamin Peterson6116d4a2011-05-17 18:31:20 -05001416- Stop using the old interface for providing methods and attributes in the _sre
1417 module. Among other things, this gives these classes ``__class__``
1418 attributes. (See #12099)
1419
Ezio Melotti0639be62011-05-07 19:21:22 +03001420- Issue #10169: Fix argument parsing in socket.sendto() to avoid error masking.
1421
Ezio Melottic1ec7b52011-05-11 00:55:35 +03001422- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
1423 objects using the C accelerations.
1424
Ezio Melotticec46492011-05-07 17:40:23 +03001425- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
1426 objects using the C accelerations.
1427
Benjamin Petersonf21ad922011-03-26 17:56:28 -05001428- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
1429 to an instance of the class.
1430
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00001431- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
1432
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00001433Build
1434-----
1435
Ned Deily22f63b52011-05-28 05:56:14 -07001436- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
1437 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
1438 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
1439
Thomas Wouters5edae7e2011-03-06 11:48:05 -08001440- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
1441
Georg Brandl94800df2011-02-25 11:09:02 +00001442- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
1443
1444- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
1445
Georg Brandl71f4fbb2011-02-25 11:04:50 +00001446- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
1447
Ned Deilye6cc7d62011-02-21 21:00:09 +00001448- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
1449 package had previously been installed.
1450
Ned Deily68adfdc2011-02-07 16:52:25 +00001451- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac
1452 OS X installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
1453
Ned Deily53c460d2011-01-30 01:43:40 +00001454- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
1455 the system-provided Python.
1456
1457- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X
1458 32-bit installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
1459 (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
1460 support enabled).
1461
Antoine Pitrou9828b562011-01-03 19:11:32 +00001462- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
1463
Antoine Pitrou31e85952011-01-03 18:57:14 +00001464- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
1465 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
1466
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00001467- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
1468 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
1469
David Malcolm4c29e1c2011-01-06 17:39:24 +00001470- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
1471 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
1472 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
1473 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
1474
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04001475- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
1476 using GCC 4.0.
1477
Raymond Hettinger179816d2011-04-12 18:54:46 -07001478IDLE
1479----
1480
1481- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
1482 file in a package.
1483
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00001484Tests
1485-----
1486
Ned Deilyc4f97f42011-05-29 02:36:17 -07001487- Issue #12205: Fix test_subprocess failure due to uninstalled test data.
1488
Ezio Melottie3992eb2011-05-14 06:24:53 +03001489- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
1490
Ezio Melotti5c5d7e22011-05-09 06:54:53 +03001491- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
1492
Nadeem Vawdabafc6a92011-04-19 01:35:58 +02001493- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
1494
Ross Lagerwallfe2f1ad2011-04-09 20:39:50 +02001495- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
1496 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1497
Ned Deily5f511822011-04-05 17:16:09 -07001498- Issue #7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@'
1499 or '.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
1500
R David Murraycdd5fc92011-03-13 22:37:18 -04001501- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
1502 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
1503
Antoine Pitrou8bc59fa2011-01-12 18:56:09 +00001504- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
1505 by Ross Lagerwall.
1506
Antoine Pitrou8c688be2011-01-03 20:49:01 +00001507- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
1508 in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
1509 explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
1510
R. David Murrayf8a63912010-12-14 16:26:30 +00001511- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
1512 encountering them.
1513
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00001514- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
1515 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
1516
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001517
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001518What's New in Python 2.7.1?
1519===========================
1520
Benjamin Peterson3e0fa422010-11-27 14:40:29 +00001521*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001522
1523Library
1524-------
1525
Éric Araujo54274ad2011-02-03 00:12:18 +00001526- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
1527
1528- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
1529
Raymond Hettinger061bf7a2010-11-30 03:15:35 +00001530- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
1531 inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
1532 iterator was undefined.
1533
Alexander Belopolsky1fea5c42010-11-30 01:18:17 +00001534- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
1535 ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
1536
Georg Brandl79f096a2010-11-26 07:57:57 +00001537- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
1538
Martin v. Löwise03c7782010-11-22 10:53:46 +00001539- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
1540
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00001541- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
1542
Senthil Kumaran9a5897b2010-11-29 12:41:03 +00001543- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
1544
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00001545- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
1546 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
1547
Georg Brandl86e0c892010-11-26 07:22:28 +00001548- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
1549 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
1550 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
1551
Senthil Kumaran0b7cac12010-11-22 05:04:33 +00001552- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
1553 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
1554
Brian Curtin2d011ed2010-11-21 23:50:51 +00001555- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
1556 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
1557
Éric Araujo4fadd532010-11-20 20:02:41 +00001558- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
1559
Georg Brandl839c1132010-11-20 11:29:38 +00001560- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
1561 is called without data.
1562
Benjamin Peterson4fec9ce2010-11-20 17:31:08 +00001563- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
1564 end of the file.
1565
Senthil Kumaran501bfd82010-11-14 03:31:52 +00001566- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
1567
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00001568Build
1569-----
1570
Brian Curtin69a106a2010-11-22 02:08:49 +00001571- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
1572
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00001573- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
1574
Ezio Melotti2623a372010-11-21 13:34:58 +00001575Tests
1576-----
1577
1578- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
1579
Ezio Melottibf8484e2010-11-24 21:54:47 +00001580Documentation
1581-------------
1582
1583- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
1584
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001585
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00001586What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
1587===============================================
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001588
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00001589*Release date: 2010-11-13*
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001590
1591Core and Builtins
1592-----------------
1593
Raymond Hettinger2ad17e12010-10-30 08:17:46 +00001594- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
1595 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
1596
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001597- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
1598 ``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +00001599
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001600- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
1601 length of the offending line.
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +00001602
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +00001603- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
1604 resolution.
1605
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +00001606- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
1607 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
1608
Jesus Cea33c722b2010-11-04 21:39:52 +00001609- Issue #9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
1610 warning.
1611
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +00001612- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
1613 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
1614
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +00001615- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
1616 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
1617 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
1618 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
1619
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +00001620- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
1621
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +00001622- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
1623 thread-local storage key.
1624
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00001625- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
1626 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
1627 the same behaviour than the print statement.
1628
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +00001629- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
1630 a memoryview object.
1631
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +00001632- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
1633
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +00001634- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
1635
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00001636- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
1637 of an array.
1638
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +00001639- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
1640
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +00001641- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
1642 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
1643
1644 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
1645 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
1646
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +00001647- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
1648 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001649
1650Library
1651-------
1652
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001653- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00001654
Antoine Pitrou7eaa4482010-11-09 23:15:18 +00001655- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
1656 Lorenzo M. Catucci.
1657
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00001658- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
1659 --enable-shared.
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00001660
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00001661- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
1662
1663- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
1664
1665- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
1666 not in build_clib.
1667
Éric Araujoe9954b52010-11-06 04:53:42 +00001668- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
1669 Arfrever.
1670
Éric Araujoe28665a2010-11-06 04:36:28 +00001671- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
1672
Éric Araujod1feff72010-11-06 04:06:18 +00001673- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
1674 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
1675
Antoine Pitrou6b1167c2010-11-05 19:55:02 +00001676- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
1677 its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1678
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001679- Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
1680 from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
Michael Foorde5dc24e2010-11-01 22:11:53 +00001681
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001682- Issue #120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
1683
1684- Issue #6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
1685 EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
1686 instead.
Giampaolo Rodolà19e9fef2010-11-01 15:07:14 +00001687
Antoine Pitrou61d14b72010-10-31 16:17:36 +00001688- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
1689 as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1690
Antoine Pitrou3917c092010-10-31 13:12:48 +00001691- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
1692 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1693
Antoine Pitrou594a0462010-10-31 13:05:48 +00001694- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
1695 for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1696
Raymond Hettingercbba8d42010-10-30 07:29:44 +00001697- Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
1698
Antoine Pitrou638cee62010-10-28 14:50:57 +00001699- Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file
1700 object with custom buffering from two threads at once.
1701
Antoine Pitrou7f081022010-10-27 18:43:21 +00001702- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
1703 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
1704 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
1705
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +00001706- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
1707 initialization.
1708
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +00001709- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
1710 ntpath.relpath().
1711
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001712- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +00001713 debugging in doctests.
1714
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001715- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
1716 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
1717
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +00001718- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
1719 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
1720
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +00001721- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
1722
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +00001723- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
1724
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +00001725- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
1726 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
1727
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +00001728- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
1729 gettext.
1730
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +00001731- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
1732 gname field.
1733
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +00001734- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
1735 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
1736
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +00001737- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
1738 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
1739
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +00001740- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
1741 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
1742 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
1743 with a timeout.
1744
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +00001745- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
1746
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +00001747- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
1748
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +00001749- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
1750
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +00001751- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
1752
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +00001753- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
1754 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
1755
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +00001756- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
1757 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
1758 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
1759 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
1760 by Andrew Bennetts.
1761
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +00001762- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
1763 values: d['x'] = d.
1764
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +00001765- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +00001766
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +00001767- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
1768 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
1769
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +00001770- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
1771 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
1772 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
1773 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
1774 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
1775 to zero.
1776
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00001777- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001778 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00001779 value.
1780
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +00001781- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
1782 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
1783 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
1784 original error is re-raised.
1785
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +00001786- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
1787 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
1788 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
1789
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +00001790- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
1791 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
1792
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +00001793- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
1794 ConfigParser.write.
1795
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +00001796- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
1797 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
1798
Terry Reedyd2d2ae92010-11-11 23:22:19 +00001799- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
1800 can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
1801 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
1802
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +00001803- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
1804 falling into recursion.
1805
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +00001806- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
1807 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
1808
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +00001809- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
1810 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
1811
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00001812- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +00001813 error handling when accepting a new connection.
1814
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +00001815- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
1816 errors.
1817
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +00001818- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
1819
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +00001820- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
1821 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
1822
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +00001823- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
1824 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
1825
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00001826- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
1827 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
1828
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +00001829- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
1830 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
1831 overridden to provide ordered views.
1832
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +00001833- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
1834 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
1835 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
1836
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +00001837- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
1838 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
1839 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
1840
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +00001841- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
1842 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
1843 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
1844 patch by Jason V. Miller.
1845
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +00001846- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
1847 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
1848
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +00001849- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
1850 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
1851
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +00001852- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
1853 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
1854 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
1855
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +00001856- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
1857 current node.
1858
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +00001859- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
1860
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +00001861- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
1862 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
1863
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +00001864- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
1865 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
1866 behavior was wrong.
1867
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +00001868- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
1869
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +00001870- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
1871 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
1872
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +00001873- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
1874 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
1875 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
1876
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00001877- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
1878
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00001879- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
1880 the command line.
1881
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +00001882- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
1883 interactive browser.
1884
1885- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
1886 regular expressions.
1887
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +00001888- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
1889 data generated with the profile module.
1890
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +00001891- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
1892 entries, consider the first one.
1893
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +00001894- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
1895 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
1896
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +00001897- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
1898 in the top-level debugged frame.
1899
1900- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
1901 in doctests.
1902
1903- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
1904 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
1905
1906- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
1907 been reassigned.
1908
1909- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
1910 a breakpoint command.
1911
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +00001912- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
1913 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
1914
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +00001915- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
1916 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
1917
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +00001918- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
1919
1920- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
1921 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
1922
1923- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
1924 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
1925
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +00001926- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
1927
1928- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
1929
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +00001930- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
1931 across devices.
1932
1933- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
1934
1935- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
1936
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +00001937- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
1938 string when Unicode was previously output.
1939
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +00001940- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
1941 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
1942
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +00001943- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
1944 utf-16 incremental encoders.
1945
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +00001946- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
1947
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +00001948- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
1949 parameters.
1950
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +00001951- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
1952 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
1953 XML-RPC request.
1954
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +00001955- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
1956
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +00001957- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
1958 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
1959 options).
1960
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +00001961- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
1962
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +00001963- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
1964 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
1965 (Jan Hosang).
1966
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +00001967- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
1968
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +00001969- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
1970 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
1971 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
1972
1973- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
1974 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
1975 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
1976
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +00001977- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
1978 strings in add_option calls.
1979
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +00001980- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
1981
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +00001982- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001983
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +00001984- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
1985
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00001986- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
1987 for tracing methods.
1988
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001989Extension Modules
1990-----------------
1991
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +00001992- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
1993 with expat version 2.0.1.
1994
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00001995- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001996 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00001997
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +00001998- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
1999 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
2000
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +00002001- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
2002 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
2003
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00002004- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
2005 interpreter by default.
2006
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +00002007- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
2008 to prevent crashes.
2009
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +00002010- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
2011 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
2012 2**31 elements.
2013
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +00002014- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
2015
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +00002016- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
2017 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
2018
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +00002019- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
2020 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
2021
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +00002022- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
2023
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +00002024- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
2025
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +00002026- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
2027
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +00002028- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
2029 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
2030 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
2031 returns the same information as the id command.
2032
2033 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
2034
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +00002035- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
2036 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
2037 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
2038 char is unsigned.
2039
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +00002040- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
2041
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04002042
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00002043Tools/Demos
2044-----------
2045
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +00002046- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
2047
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00002048- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
2049 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
2050 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
2051
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00002052Build
2053-----
2054
Antoine Pitroue0c5f3c2010-10-27 20:35:26 +00002055- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
2056
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +00002057- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
2058 Akira Kitada.
2059
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +00002060- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
2061
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +00002062- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
2063
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +00002064- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
2065 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
2066
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +00002067- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
2068 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
2069
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +00002070- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
2071 Sablé.
2072
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +00002073- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
2074 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
2075 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +00002076
2077- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
2078 Sébastien Sablé.
2079
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00002080- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
2081
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002082- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
2083 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +00002084
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002085- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
2086 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
2087 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +00002088
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00002089- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
2090 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
2091 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
2092
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +00002093- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
2094 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00002095
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00002096Tests
2097-----
2098
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +00002099- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
2100 in test_os)
2101
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +00002102- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
2103
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002104- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
2105 case when running profile or trace, for example.
2106
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00002107- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002108
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +00002109- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
2110
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +00002111- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
2112
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00002113- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
2114
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +00002115- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
2116
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +00002117- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
2118 Michele Orrù.
2119
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00002120- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
2121
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +00002122- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
2123
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00002124Documentation
2125-------------
2126
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +00002127- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
2128 to Doc/license.rst.
2129
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +00002130- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
2131 with os.kill.
2132
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002133- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
2134 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +00002135
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002136- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00002137
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002138
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002139What's New in Python 2.7?
2140=========================
2141
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +00002142*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002143
2144Core and Builtins
2145-----------------
2146
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +00002147- Prevent assignment to set literals.
2148
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002149Library
2150-------
2151
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +00002152- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
2153 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
2154
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +00002155- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
2156
2157Extension Modules
2158-----------------
2159
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +00002160- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
2161 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00002162
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +00002163- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
2164 on an OpenSSL structure.
2165
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +00002166
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00002167What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
2168=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002169
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +00002170*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002171
2172Core and Builtins
2173-----------------
2174
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +00002175- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
2176
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +00002177- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
2178 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
2179 See tracker issue for details.
2180
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +00002181- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
2182 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
2183 (higher than 0x10000).
2184
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +00002185- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
2186 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +00002187
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +00002188Build
2189-----
2190
2191- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
2192
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002193Library
2194-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00002195
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00002196- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +00002197 raises an exception.
2198
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +00002199- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
2200 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
2201 and after calling foreign functions.
2202
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +00002203- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
2204 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
2205
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00002206- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
2207 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
2208
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +00002209- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002210
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00002211- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
2212 now honored in unittest debug methods.
2213
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +00002214Documentation
2215-------------
2216
2217- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
2218 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
2219
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002220Misc
2221----
2222
2223- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
2224
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002225
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +00002226What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
2227=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002228
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +00002229*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002230
2231Core and Builtins
2232-----------------
2233
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +00002234- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
2235 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
2236 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
2237 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
2238 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
2239 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
2240 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
2241
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00002242- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +00002243 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
2244 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
2245 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
2246 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00002247
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +00002248- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
2249 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
2250 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
2251 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
2252 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
2253 in sets or dicts.
2254
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +00002255- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
2256 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
2257 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
2258
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +00002259- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
2260 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
2261
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002262- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
2263 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +00002264
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002265- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
2266 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +00002267
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002268- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +00002269 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
2270
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00002271C-API
2272-----
2273
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002274- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
2275 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
2276 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00002277 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
2278
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002279Library
2280-------
2281
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +00002282- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
2283 reported as a skip rather than an error.
2284
2285- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
2286 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
2287 reports.
2288
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +00002289- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
2290
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +00002291- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
2292 accepted by the codecs module.
2293
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +00002294- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
2295
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +00002296- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
2297 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
2298
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +00002299- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
2300 mistake.
2301
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +00002302- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
2303 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
2304
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +00002305- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
2306 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
2307
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +00002308- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
2309 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +00002310
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +00002311- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
2312
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +00002313- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
2314
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +00002315- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
2316 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
2317 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +00002318
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00002319- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002320 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00002321
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +00002322- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
2323 of files without one.
2324
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002325- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +00002326 comparing to a non-mapping.
2327
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002328- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +00002329
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002330- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
2331 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +00002332
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +00002333- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
2334
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002335- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
2336 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
2337 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +00002338
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00002339Extension Modules
2340-----------------
2341
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +00002342- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
2343 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
2344 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
2345
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +00002346- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
2347 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
2348
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00002349- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002350 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002351
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002352Tests
2353-----
2354
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +00002355- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
2356 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
2357
2358- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +00002359 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
2360
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +00002361- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
2362
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002363- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
2364 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
2365 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002366
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +00002367Build
2368-----
2369
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +00002370- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
2371 releases.
2372
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002373- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +00002374 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002375
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +00002376Tools/Demos
2377-----------
2378
2379- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
2380
2381
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002382What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
2383================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002384
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +00002385*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002386
2387Core and Builtins
2388-----------------
2389
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002390- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +00002391
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002392- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
2393 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
2394 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
2395 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
2396 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +00002397
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002398- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
2399 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +00002400
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +00002401- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
2402
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00002403- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002404 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00002405 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
2406 Charles-François Natali.
2407
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +00002408- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
2409 passed to bytearray.
2410
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002411- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +00002412
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002413- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +00002414
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002415- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
2416 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
2417 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +00002418
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002419Library
2420-------
2421
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002422- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
2423 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +00002424
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002425- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
2426 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +00002427
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002428- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00002429
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002430- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
2431 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
2432 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
2433 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00002434
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002435- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
2436 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +00002437
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +00002438- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
2439
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002440- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
2441 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +00002442
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002443- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
2444 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +00002445
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002446- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
2447 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
2448 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
2449 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
2450 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +00002451
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00002452- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002453 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
2454 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00002455
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +00002456- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
2457
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00002458- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
2459 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
2460
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002461- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
2462 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +00002463
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002464- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
2465 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +00002466
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002467- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +00002468 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
2469 "Include".
2470
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002471- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
2472 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +00002473
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002474- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
2475 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +00002476
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002477- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
2478 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +00002479
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002480- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
2481 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
2482 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +00002483
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002484- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
2485 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +00002486
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002487- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +00002488
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002489- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
2490 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +00002491
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002492- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +00002493
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002494- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
2495 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
2496 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
2497 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +00002498
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +00002499- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
2500 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
2501
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002502- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
2503 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +00002504
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +00002505- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
2506
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002507- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
2508 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +00002509
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002510- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
2511 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +00002512
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002513- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
2514 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
2515 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +00002516
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002517- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
2518 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002519 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
2520 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
2521
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002522- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
2523 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
2524 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +00002525
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +00002526- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
2527
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002528- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
2529 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +00002530
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002531- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +00002532
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002533- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
2534 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +00002535
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002536- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
2537 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +00002538
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +00002539- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
2540
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +00002541- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
2542 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
2543
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002544- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +00002545 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
2546
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00002547- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002548 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
2549 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00002550
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00002551- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002552 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
2553 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00002554
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +00002555- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
2556
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002557- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
2558 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002559
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00002560Extension Modules
2561-----------------
2562
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002563- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +00002564
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +00002565- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
2566
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00002567- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
2568
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002569- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
2570 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +00002571
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002572Tests
2573-----
2574
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002575- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
2576 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
2577 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +00002578
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002579- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
2580 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +00002581
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +00002582- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
2583 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
2584
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002585- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
2586 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +00002587
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002588- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
2589 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002590
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00002591Build
2592-----
2593
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002594- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +00002595 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
2596 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
2597 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
2598
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00002599- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
2600
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002601- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
2602 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +00002603
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002604- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +00002605
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +00002606Misc
2607----
2608
2609- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
2610
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002611
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002612What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
2613================================
2614
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +00002615*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002616
2617Core and Builtins
2618-----------------
2619
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +00002620- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
2621
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +00002622- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
2623 changed.
2624
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002625- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +00002626 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
2627 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
2628
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +00002629- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
2630
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002631- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +00002632
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +00002633- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
2634
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002635- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
2636 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
2637 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
2638 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
Antoine Pitrou01a196a2011-01-02 20:05:11 +00002639 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002640 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +00002641
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +00002642- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
2643 references.
2644
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002645- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
2646 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00002647
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00002648- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00002649
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00002650- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
2651 arguments to a function correct.
2652
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00002653- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
2654
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00002655- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002656 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
2657 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00002658 module.
2659
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00002660- Code objects now support weak references.
2661
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002662Library
2663-------
2664
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00002665- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
2666
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00002667- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002668 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
2669 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00002670
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00002671- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
2672
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002673- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
2674 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00002675
2676 >>> Decimal(1.1)
2677 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
2678
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00002679- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
2680
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002681- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
2682 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00002683
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002684- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
2685 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00002686
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002687- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
2688 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00002689
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002690- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
2691 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
2692 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
2693 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00002694
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002695- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
2696 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
2697 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
2698 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00002699
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00002700- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002701 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
2702 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
2703 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00002704
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002705- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
2706 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00002707
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00002708- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
2709 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002710 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00002711
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002712- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
2713 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
2714 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
2715 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00002716
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00002717- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
2718
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00002719- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
2720
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00002721- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
2722 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
2723
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00002724- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
2725
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00002726- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002727 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
2728 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00002729
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00002730- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
2731 deprecated.
2732
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002733- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
2734 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00002735
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002736- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
2737 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00002738
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002739- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
2740 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
2741 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00002742
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002743- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
2744 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00002745
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00002746- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
2747 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
2748 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00002749
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00002750- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
2751
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00002752- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
2753
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002754- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
2755 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
2756 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00002757
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00002758- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
2759 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
2760
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002761- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00002762
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002763- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
2764 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00002765
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002766- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
2767 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002768 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00002769
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00002770- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002771 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
2772 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
2773 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00002774
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002775- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00002776 cElementTree module is updated too.
2777
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00002778- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
2779
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002780- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00002781 classes.
2782
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002783- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
2784 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
2785 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
2786 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00002787
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00002788- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
2789 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
2790
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00002791- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
2792
2793- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
2794 during test runs.
2795
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00002796- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00002797 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
2798
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002799Extension Modules
2800-----------------
2801
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00002802- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
2803
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00002804- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
2805
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00002806- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002807 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
2808 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00002809
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00002810- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
2811
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00002812- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
2813
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00002814- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
2815 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
2816 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
2817 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
2818
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002819- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
2820 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
2821 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002822 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
2823 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
2824 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
2825 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002826
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002827- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
2828 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00002829
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00002830Tools/Demos
2831-----------
2832
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002833- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
2834 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
2835 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002836
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00002837- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
2838
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00002839Build
2840-----
2841
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002842- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
2843 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00002844
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002845- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
2846 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
2847 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00002848
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00002849- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
2850
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00002851- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
2852
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00002853- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
2854 assembly file.
2855
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00002856C-API
2857-----
2858
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00002859- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002860 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
2861 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00002862
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002863- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
2864 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
2865 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
2866 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00002867
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00002868Tests
2869-----
2870
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002871- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
2872 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00002873
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002874- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
2875
2876- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
2877
2878- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
2879
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00002880- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
2881
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00002882- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
2883
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00002884- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
2885 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
2886
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00002887- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
2888 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00002889
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002890- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
2891 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00002892
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00002893
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002894What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
2895=================================
2896
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00002897*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002898
2899Core and Builtins
2900-----------------
2901
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002902- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
2903 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00002904
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002905- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
2906 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00002907
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00002908- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002909 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00002910
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00002911- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002912 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
2913 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00002914
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002915- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
2916 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00002917
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002918- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00002919 Parser/myreadline.c.
2920
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00002921- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002922 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00002923
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002924- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
2925 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00002926
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002927Library
2928-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00002929
Senthil Kumaranc1d0ed22010-12-04 09:58:29 +00002930- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
2931 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
2932 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
2933
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00002934- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
2935 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002936
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00002937- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
2938
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002939- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00002940 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00002941
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002942- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00002943 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
2944
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002945- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
2946 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00002947
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00002948- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002949 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00002950
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00002951- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00002952
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002953- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
2954 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00002955
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002956- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00002957
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002958- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
2959 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00002960
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002961- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
2962 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00002963
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00002964- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
2965
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002966- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
2967 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
2968 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
2969 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00002970
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002971- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
2972 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002973
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00002974- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
2975 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
2976 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002977
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00002978- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00002979 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00002980
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002981- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00002982
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002983- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00002984
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002985- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00002986
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002987- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
2988 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00002989
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00002990- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002991 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00002992
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002993- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00002994
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00002995- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
2996
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00002997Extension Modules
2998-----------------
2999
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003000- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00003001 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
3002
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00003003- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
3004
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003005- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00003006 handling.
3007
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00003008- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
3009 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003010
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003011- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00003012 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
3013 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
3014
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003015- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
3016 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00003017
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003018Tests
3019-----
3020
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003021- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
3022 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
3023 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00003024
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00003025- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
3026 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
3027
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003028- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
3029 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00003030
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003031- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00003032 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00003033
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003034- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00003035 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
3036
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003037- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
3038 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
3039 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
3040 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003041
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00003042Build
3043-----
3044
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00003045- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00003046
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003047
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003048What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
3049=================================
3050
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00003051*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003052
3053Core and Builtins
3054-----------------
3055
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00003056- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
3057 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003058 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
3059 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00003060
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00003061- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003062 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00003063
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003064- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
3065 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00003066
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003067- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00003068
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003069- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
3070 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00003071
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003072- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
3073 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
3074 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
3075 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00003076
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003077- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
3078 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
3079 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
3080 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00003081
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00003082- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
3083 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
3084 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3085
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003086- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
3087 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00003088
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003089 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
3090 strings,
3091 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
3092 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
3093 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
3094 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
3095
3096- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
3097 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00003098
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00003099- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
3100
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00003101- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
3102
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00003103- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
3104
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003105Library
3106-------
3107
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00003108- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
3109 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
3110
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00003111- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
3112 interpreter shutdown.
3113
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003114- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
3115 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
3116 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
3117 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00003118
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003119- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00003120
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003121- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00003122
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003123- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00003124
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00003125- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003126 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00003127 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
3128 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
3129
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00003130- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
3131
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00003132- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003133 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
3134 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00003135 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3136
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003137- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
3138 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
3139 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
3140 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
3141 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
3142 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00003143
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00003144- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
3145
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003146- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
3147 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00003148
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003149- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
3150 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00003151
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003152- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
3153 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
3154 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
3155 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00003156
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003157- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00003158 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
3159 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
3160
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003161- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00003162 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
3163
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003164- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
3165 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00003166
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003167- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
3168 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00003169
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003170- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
3171 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00003172
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003173- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
3174 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00003175
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00003176- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003177 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
3178 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00003179
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00003180Extension Modules
3181-----------------
3182
3183- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
3184 (CVE_2009_3560).
3185
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00003186Build
3187-----
3188
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003189- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
3190 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
3191 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00003192
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00003193- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
3194
3195- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
3196 MacOSX.
3197
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00003198- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
3199 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3200
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00003201Tools/Demos
3202-----------
3203
3204- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003205 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00003206 sandbox.
3207
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00003208Tests
3209-----
3210
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003211- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00003212 instead of a hard coded port.
3213
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00003214Documentation
3215-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00003216
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003217- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
3218 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00003219
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003220- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00003221 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
3222
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003223
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003224What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
3225=================================
3226
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00003227*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003228
3229Core and Builtins
3230-----------------
3231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003232- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
3233 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00003234
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00003235- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
3236 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3237
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003238- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003239 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
3240 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
3241 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
3242 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
3243 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003244
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00003245- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
3246 AttributeError.
3247
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003248- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
3249 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00003250
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003251- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00003252
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00003253- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
3254 used to drop the time part of the result.
3255
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003256- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
3257 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
3258 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
3259 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00003260
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003261- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
3262 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
3263 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00003264
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003265- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00003266 executables on OSX.
3267
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003268 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
3269 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
3270 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00003271
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003272- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
3273 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00003274
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00003275- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
3276
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003277- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
3278 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00003279
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003280
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003281Library
3282-------
3283
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003284- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
3285 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
3286 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00003287
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003288- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
3289 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
3290 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00003291
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00003292- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003293 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
3294 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00003295 Xicluna.
3296
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003297- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
3298 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00003299
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003300- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
3301 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00003302
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003303- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
3304 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
3305 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00003306
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003307- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00003308 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
3309
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003310- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
3311 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00003312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003313- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00003314 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
3315
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003316- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
3317 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00003318
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003319- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
3320 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00003321
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003322- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
3323 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
3324 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00003325
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003326- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
3327 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00003328
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00003329- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
3330 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
3331 the same as passing no argument.
3332
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003333- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
3334 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00003335
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003336- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00003337
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003338- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00003339
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003340- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
3341 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00003342
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003343- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
3344 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003345
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003346- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
3347 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00003348
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00003349C-API
3350-----
3351
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003352- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
3353 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00003354
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003355- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
3356 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
3357 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
3358 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
3359 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
3360 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
3361 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003362
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003363- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00003364
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00003365Build
3366-----
3367
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00003368- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
3369
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00003370- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003371 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00003372
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003373- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
3374 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
3375 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00003376
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00003377- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
3378 found.
3379
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00003380- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00003381
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003382- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
3383 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00003384
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003385Tests
3386-----
3387
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003388- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00003389 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
3390
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003391- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00003392
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003393- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
3394 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
3395
3396
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003397What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
3398================================
3399
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00003400*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003401
3402Core and Builtins
3403-----------------
3404
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003405- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
3406 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00003407
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003408- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
3409 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
3410 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00003411
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003412- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
3413 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00003414
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003415- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
3416 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
3417 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00003418
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003419- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00003420
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003421- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00003422
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003423- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
3424 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00003425
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003426- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
3427 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
3428 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
3429 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
3430 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
3431 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003432
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003433- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
3434 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
3435 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
3436 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
3437 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
3438 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
3439 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003440
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003441 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
3442 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
3443 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
3444 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
3445 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
3446 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
3447 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
3448 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
3449 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
3450 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003451
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003452- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
3453 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
3454 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
3455 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
3456 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
3457 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
3458 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
3459 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00003460
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00003461- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
3462
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003463- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
3464 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00003465
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003466- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
3467 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00003468
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003469- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
3470 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00003471
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00003472- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
3473
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003474- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
3475 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
3476 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00003477
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003478- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
3479 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00003480
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003481- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
3482 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003483
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003484- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
3485 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00003486
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003487- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
3488 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
3489 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00003490
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003491- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
3492 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00003493
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00003494- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
3495 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
3496 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
3497 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
3498
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00003499- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
3500 assignment.
3501
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003502- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
3503 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00003504
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003505- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
3506 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00003507
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003508- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
3509 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00003510
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00003511- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00003512 take keyword arguments.
3513
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003514- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
3515 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00003516
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003517- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
3518 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00003519
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00003520- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
3521
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00003522- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
3523 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
3524
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00003525- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
3526
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003527- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00003528
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003529- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00003530 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
3531
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003532- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
3533 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00003534
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003535- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00003536
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003537- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00003538
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003539- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00003540 occurred in the argument chain.
3541
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00003542- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
3543
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003544- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
3545 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00003546
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003547- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00003548 separator and end should be unicode also.
3549
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003550- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
3551 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00003552
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003553- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
3554 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
3555 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00003556
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00003557- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
3558
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00003559- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
3560 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
3561
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00003562- Removed the ipaddr module.
3563
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00003564- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
3565 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
3566
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003567- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00003568
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00003569- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
3570 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
3571
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00003572- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
3573
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003574- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
3575 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00003576
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00003577- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003578 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00003579
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003580- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
3581 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00003582
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00003583- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003584 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00003585
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00003586- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
3587 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
3588
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003589- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
3590 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
3591 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00003592
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00003593- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
3594
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003595- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
3596 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00003597
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003598- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00003599
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00003600- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00003601
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003602 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
3603 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
3604 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00003605
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003606- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
3607 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
3608 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
3609 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
3610 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
3611 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
3612 complex.__format__ in the same way.
3613
3614- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
3615 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
3616 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00003617
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00003618- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003619 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00003620
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003621- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
3622 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00003623
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003624- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
3625 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00003626
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003627- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
3628 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00003629
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003630- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
3631 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00003632
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00003633- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
3634 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
3635
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00003636- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
3637
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003638- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
3639 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00003640
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003641- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
3642 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003643
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003644- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
3645 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003646
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003647- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
3648 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003649
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003650- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
3651 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00003652
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003653- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003654 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00003655
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003656- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
3657 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00003658
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00003659- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
3660
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003661- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00003662
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003663- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
3664 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00003665
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003666- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00003667
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00003668- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
3669 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
3670
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00003671- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
3672
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003673- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
3674 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00003675
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00003676- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003677 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
3678 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
3679 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00003680
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003681- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
3682 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
3683 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00003684
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003685- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
3686 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
3687 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
3688 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
3689 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00003690
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00003691- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
3692 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
3693
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003694- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
3695 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
3696 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00003697
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003698- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
3699 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00003700
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003701- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00003702 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
3703
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003704- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
3705 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00003706
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003707- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
3708 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00003709
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003710- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
3711 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00003712
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00003713- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
3714 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
3715
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003716- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
3717 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00003718
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00003719- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
3720
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00003721- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00003722 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
3723 zip(), and bytearray().
3724
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00003725- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
3726 functions.
3727
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00003728- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
3729 OSError.
3730
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00003731- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
3732
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003733- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
3734 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
3735 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00003736
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00003737- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
3738 __next__ method.
3739
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00003740- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
3741
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00003742- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
3743
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00003744- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
3745 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
3746 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00003747 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00003748 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
3749
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00003750- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
3751
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003752- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
3753 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
3754 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
3755 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
3756 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00003757
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003758- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00003759
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00003760- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
3761 file with `str' filename on Windows.
3762
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00003763- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
3764 did not get collected.
3765
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003766- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
3767 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00003768
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00003769- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
3770 directory on POSIX systems.
3771
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00003772- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
3773 systems.
3774
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00003775- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003776 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00003777
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00003778- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
3779 fail.
3780
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003781- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
3782 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
3783 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00003784
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00003785- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
3786
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003787- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
3788 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00003789
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003790- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
3791 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00003792
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003793- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00003794
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003795- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
3796 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
3797 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
3798 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00003799
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00003800- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
3801 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
3802 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
3803
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003804- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
3805 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00003806
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00003807- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
3808 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
3809
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003810- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
3811 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
3812 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
3813 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00003814
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00003815- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
3816 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
3817
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003818- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00003819
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00003820- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
3821
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00003822- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
3823
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00003824- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
3825 exec statement.
3826
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003827- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
3828 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00003829
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00003830- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
3831 __future__ import didn't work.
3832
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00003833- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00003834 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00003835
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003836- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
3837 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
3838 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
3839 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00003840
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003841- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
3842 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
3843 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
3844 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00003845
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003846- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
3847 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00003848
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00003849- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
3850
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00003851- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
3852
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00003853- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
3854
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003855- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
3856 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00003857
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00003858- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
3859 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00003860
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00003861- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
3862 returned them on 64bit platforms.
3863
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00003864- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
3865 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
3866 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
3867 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
3868
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00003869- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
3870 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
3871
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003872- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
3873 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
3874 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
3875 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00003876
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003877Library
3878-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00003879
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00003880- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00003881
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00003882- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
3883
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003884- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
3885 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00003886
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003887- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00003888 TLS with authentication credentials.
3889
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003890- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
3891 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00003892
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00003893- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
3894 msvc9compiler.
3895
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003896- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
3897 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
3898 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00003899
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00003900- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
3901 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
3902 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
3903
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003904- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
3905 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00003906
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00003907- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
3908
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00003909- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003910 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00003911 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
3912
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003913- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
3914 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
3915 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00003916
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00003917- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
3918
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003919- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
3920 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00003921
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00003922- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
3923 raises ReadError on empty files.
3924
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003925- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00003926
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00003927- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
3928 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00003929
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003930- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
3931 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00003932
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003933- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
3934 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00003935
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003936- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00003937
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003938- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
3939 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00003940
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003941- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
3942 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00003943
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003944- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
3945 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
3946 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00003947 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
3948 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
3949
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003950- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
3951 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
3952 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00003953
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00003954- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003955 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00003956 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
3957
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003958- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
3959 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
3960 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00003961
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00003962- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
3963 which are part of a reference cycle.
3964
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003965- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
3966 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00003967
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003968- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00003969 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
3970 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
3971
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003972- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
3973 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
3974 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
3975 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00003976
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003977- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
3978 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
3979 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
3980 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00003981
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00003982- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
3983 header as required by RFC 1952.
3984
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00003985- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
3986 Distutils.
3987
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00003988- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
3989 an uppercase.
3990
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003991- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
3992 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00003993
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00003994- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
3995 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
3996
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00003997- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00003998 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
3999
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00004000- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
4001 protocol 2.
4002
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00004003- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
4004
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00004005- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
4006 larger than emax.
4007
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004008- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
4009 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00004010
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00004011- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
4012
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004013- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00004014
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00004015- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
4016
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004017- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00004018
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004019- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00004020
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00004021- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
4022 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004023
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004024- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
4025 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00004026
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004027- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
4028 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00004029
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004030- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00004031 Distutils.
4032
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004033- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00004034
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004035- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
4036 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00004037
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004038- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
4039 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00004040
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00004041- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
4042
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00004043- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
4044
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004045- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
4046 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00004047
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004048- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
4049 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00004050
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004051- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
4052 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00004053
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00004054- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
4055
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00004056- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4057
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00004058- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004059 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
4060 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00004061
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004062- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00004063
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004064- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
4065 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
4066 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00004067
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004068- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
4069 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00004070
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004071- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00004072
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004073- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
4074 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
4075 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
4076 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00004077
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00004078- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
4079 as documented.
4080
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00004081- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
4082 names in the webbrowser module.
4083
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00004084- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
4085
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00004086- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
4087 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
4088
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00004089- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
4090
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00004091- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
4092
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00004093- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
4094
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00004095- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
4096
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00004097- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
4098
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00004099- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
4100 ScrolledText.
4101
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00004102- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
4103
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004104- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
4105 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00004106
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00004107- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
4108 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
4109 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
4110 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
4111
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00004112- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
4113 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
4114
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00004115- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004116 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
4117 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00004118
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004119- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
4120 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
4121 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00004122
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00004123- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
4124 opening an empty or very small file.
4125
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00004126- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
4127 containing incomplete data.
4128
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004129- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
4130 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00004131
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00004132- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
4133
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004134- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
4135 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
4136 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00004137
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00004138- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00004139
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004140- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
4141 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
4142 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
4143 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00004144
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004145- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00004146
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004147- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
4148
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00004149- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
4150 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
4151
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004152- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00004153
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004154- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00004155 attribute.
4156
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00004157- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
4158
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00004159- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
4160 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
4161
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00004162- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
4163
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004164- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00004165 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004166 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00004167
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004168- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00004169 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
4170
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00004171- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
4172
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004173- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
4174 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00004175 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
4176
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004177- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00004178 argument.
4179
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004180- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
4181 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00004182
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004183- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00004184
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00004185- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
4186
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00004187- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
4188
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00004189- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
4190 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
4191
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004192- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
4193 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00004194
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00004195- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
4196 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
4197 ``io`` module.
4198
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00004199- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
4200
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00004201- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004202 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
4203
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00004204- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
4205
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004206- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
4207 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
4208 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00004209
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00004210- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
4211
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004212- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
4213 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00004214
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00004215- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
4216
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00004217- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
4218 whitespace.
4219
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004220- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
4221 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00004222
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00004223- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
4224 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
4225
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004226- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
4227 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00004228
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004229- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
4230 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00004231
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00004232- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
4233 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
4234 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
4235
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00004236- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
4237 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004238
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004239- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
4240 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
4241 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00004242
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00004243- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
4244 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
4245
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004246- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00004247 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
4248
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004249- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00004250
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004251- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
4252 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00004253
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004254- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00004255 subcommand.
4256
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00004257- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
4258 deepcopy()ing.
4259
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004260- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00004261
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00004262- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
4263
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004264- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00004265
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004266- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00004267 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
4268
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00004269- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
4270 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
4271
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00004272- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004273 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00004274
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004275- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
4276 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00004277
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00004278- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
4279 trying to print a traceback.
4280
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00004281- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
4282
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004283- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
4284 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00004285
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004286- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
4287 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
4288 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00004289 Cournapeau.
4290
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004291- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004292 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00004293
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004294- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
4295 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00004296
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00004297- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
4298
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00004299- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
4300 looking for files given by a relative filename.
4301
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004302- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00004303 extracting a file to the root directory.
4304
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004305- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00004306
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004307- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
4308 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
4309 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00004310
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00004311- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
4312 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
4313
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00004314- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
4315 Contributed by Google.
4316
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00004317- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
4318
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004319- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00004320
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00004321- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
4322
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004323- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
4324 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00004325 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
4326
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004327- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00004328 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
4329 initialized before.
4330
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00004331- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
4332 names which should not be exported.
4333
4334- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004335 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00004336
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00004337- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
4338
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004339- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
4340 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00004341
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00004342- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
4343
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00004344- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004345 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00004346
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004347- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
4348 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
4349 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00004350
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00004351- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
4352
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004353- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
4354
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004355- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
4356 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
4357 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
4358 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
4359 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00004360
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004361- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00004362
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004363- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
4364 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00004365
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004366- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00004367
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004368- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004369 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00004370
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004371- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
4372 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00004373
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004374- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
4375 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00004376
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004377- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
4378 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00004379
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004380- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
4381 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00004382
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004383- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00004384
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00004385- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00004386
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004387- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00004388
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004389- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00004390
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004391- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00004392 mailbox.MH.get_message().
4393
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004394- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
4395 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00004396
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004397- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
4398 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
4399 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00004400
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004401- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
4402 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004403
4404- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00004405 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004406
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004407- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
4408 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00004409 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
4410 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
4411
4412- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
4413 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004414
4415- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00004416 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004417
4418- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00004419 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00004420
4421- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
4422 called immediately before and after a test run.
4423
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004424- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00004425 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
4426 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
4427 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004428
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004429- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00004430
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00004431- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
4432 printing out values.
4433
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004434- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00004435
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00004436- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
4437 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
4438 threads.
4439
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00004440- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
4441
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00004442- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
4443
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004444- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00004445 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
4446 that it was failing to do localization.
4447
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004448- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00004449 Brandl.
4450
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004451- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
4452 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00004453
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00004454- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
4455 with the threading module.
4456
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004457- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00004458
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00004459- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
4460
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004461- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
4462 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00004463
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004464- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004465 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
4466 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00004467
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004468- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
4469 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00004470
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00004471- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
4472 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
4473 output compared to previous Python versions.
4474
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00004475- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
4476
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004477- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004478 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
4479 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004480
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004481- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
4482 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
4483 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
4484 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004485
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004486- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
4487 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
4488 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
4489 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00004490
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00004491- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
4492 even if an exception occurs.
4493
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00004494- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
4495 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
4496
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004497- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
4498 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00004499
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004500- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
4501 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00004502
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004503- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00004504 character.
4505
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004506- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
4507 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00004508
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004509- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00004510
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00004511- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004512 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
4513 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00004514
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004515- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
4516 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
4517 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00004518
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00004519- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
4520
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004521- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00004522 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
4523
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00004524- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
4525
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00004526- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
4527
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004528- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00004529
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00004530- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
4531
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00004532- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
4533
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00004534- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
4535 ready received.
4536
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00004537- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
4538 import guess_extension`` was used.
4539
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004540- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
4541 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00004542
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00004543- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
4544 overrun.
4545
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00004546- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
4547 bdist_rpm command.
4548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004549- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00004550
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004551- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00004552
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00004553- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
4554 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
4555
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004556- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
4557 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00004558
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00004559- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
4560 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004561
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004562- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
4563 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00004564
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00004565- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
4566
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004567- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
4568 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00004569
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004570- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00004571 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
4572
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00004573- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
4574 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
4575
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004576- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00004577
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004578- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
4579 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00004580
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00004581- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
4582 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
4583
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00004584- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
4585 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
4586
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00004587- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004588 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00004589 ctime of the files involved.
4590
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00004591- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
4592 deadlock.
4593
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004594- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
4595 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
4596 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00004597
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00004598- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
4599
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004600- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
4601 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004602
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004603- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
4604 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00004605
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004606- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
4607 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
4608 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00004609
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004610- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
4611 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
4612 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
4613 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00004614
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004615- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00004616 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
4617
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004618- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
4619 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00004620
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00004621- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
4622 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
4623
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004624- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00004625 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
4626
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00004627- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
4628
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004629- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
4630 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00004631
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004632- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
4633 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00004634
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00004635- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
4636
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004637- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00004638 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
4639
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004640- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
4641 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00004642
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004643- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
4644 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00004645
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00004646- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
4647
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004648- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00004649
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004650- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
4651 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00004652
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004653- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
4654 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00004655
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004656- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00004657 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
4658
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004659- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
4660 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00004661
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004662- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
4663 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00004664
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004665- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004666 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
4667 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00004668
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004669- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
4670 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
4671 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
4672 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00004673
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004674- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
4675 parameter was set.
4676
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00004677- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
4678 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00004679 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00004680
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00004681- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004682 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
4683 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00004684
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00004685- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
4686 in sharedctypes.py.
4687
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00004688- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
4689 __getattr__.
4690
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004691- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
4692 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00004693
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004694- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00004695 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
4696
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004697- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00004698
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00004699- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
4700
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00004701- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004702 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
4703 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00004704 Jacques Frechet.
4705
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00004706- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
4707
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004708- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00004709 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
4710
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00004711- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004712 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
4713 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00004714
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004715- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
4716 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00004717
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004718- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
4719 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00004720
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00004721- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
4722 the function is not a generator.
4723
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004724- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
4725 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00004726
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004727- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
4728 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00004729
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004730- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
4731 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00004732
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004733- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
4734 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00004735
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00004736- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
4737
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00004738- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
4739
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004740- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
4741 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00004742
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004743- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
4744 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00004745
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00004746- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
4747 Gabriel Genellina.
4748
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00004749- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
4750
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00004751- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
4752
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004753- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00004754
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004755- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
4756 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
4757 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00004758
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004759- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
4760 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004761 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
4762
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004763- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
4764 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
4765 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004766
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004767- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
4768 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
4769 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
4770 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
4771 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004772
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004773- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
4774 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004775
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00004776- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
4777 when given an unicode string.
4778
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00004779- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
4780
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004781- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
4782 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
4783 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00004784
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004785- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
4786 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00004787
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004788- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00004789
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004790- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00004791 statements.
4792
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00004793- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
4794 not a malformed option.
4795
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004796- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
4797 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00004798
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00004799- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
4800 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
4801 Content-Disposition headers.
4802
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00004803- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004804 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
4805 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
4806 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
4807 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00004808
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00004809- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
4810 exception.
4811
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004812- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
4813 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00004814
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00004815- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
4816
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00004817- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
4818
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00004819- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
4820 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
4821
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00004822- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
4823 and then remove it.
4824
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00004825- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
4826
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00004827- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
4828 debugging.
4829
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00004830- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
4831 inspect.getargvalues.
4832
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00004833- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
4834
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00004835- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
4836 to claiming it is Mature.
4837
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00004838- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
4839 when protocol 0 is used.
4840
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00004841- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
4842 to be consistent with Apple tools.
4843
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00004844- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004845 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00004846
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00004847- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
4848
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004849- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00004850 module.
4851
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004852- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
4853 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00004854
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004855- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00004856
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004857- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00004858
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00004859- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004860 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00004861
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00004862- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004863 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
4864 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00004865
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00004866- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
4867 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
4868
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004869- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
4870 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00004871
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00004872- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
4873 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
4874 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
4875
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00004876- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
4877
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00004878Tools/Demos
4879-----------
4880
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004881- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00004882
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004883- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00004884
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00004885Build
4886-----
4887
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004888- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
4889 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
4890 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00004891
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004892- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
4893 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
4894 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004895
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004896- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00004897
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00004898- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
4899
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004900- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004901 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00004902
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004903- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004904 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00004905
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004906- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
4907 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00004908
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00004909- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
4910
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00004911- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
4912
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004913- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
4914 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00004915
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00004916- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00004917 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00004918
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00004919- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
4920
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00004921- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
4922
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00004923- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
4924
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00004925- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
4926
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004927- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00004928
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00004929- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
4930
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00004931- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
4932
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00004933- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
4934
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00004935- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
4936
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00004937- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
4938
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00004939- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
4940
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00004941- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
4942
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004943- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00004944
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00004945- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
4946
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00004947Documentation
4948-------------
4949
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004950- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
4951 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00004952
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004953- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
4954 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00004955
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004956C-API
4957-----
4958
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00004959- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
4960
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004961- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
4962 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00004963
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004964- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
4965 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00004966
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004967- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
4968 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00004969
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004970- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
4971 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00004972
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00004973- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
4974 PyCode_Addr2Line().
4975
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00004976- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
4977 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
4978
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00004979- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
4980 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
4981
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00004982- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
4983
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004984- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
4985 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00004986
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00004987- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
4988
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004989- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
4990 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00004991
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004992- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
4993 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004994
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004995- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00004996 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004997
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00004998Extension Modules
4999-----------------
5000
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00005001- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
5002
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00005003- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
5004
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005005- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00005006
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00005007- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005008 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00005009
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005010- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
5011 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00005012
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005013- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
5014 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00005015
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00005016- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
5017 module.
5018
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00005019- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
5020
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00005021- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00005022 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00005023
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005024- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
5025 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
5026 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00005027
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005028- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
5029 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
5030 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00005031
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005032- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
5033 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
5034 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00005035
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005036 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
5037 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00005038
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005039 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
5040 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
5041 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
5042 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
5043 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
5044 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
5045 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00005046
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005047 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
5048 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
5049 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00005050
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00005051- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
5052
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005053- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
5054 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00005055
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00005056- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
5057 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00005058 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00005059
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00005060- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00005061
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00005062- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
5063
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00005064- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
5065
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00005066- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
5067
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00005068- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
5069
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00005070- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
5071 OpenBSD.
5072
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00005073- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
5074
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00005075- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
5076
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00005077- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
5078
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00005079Tests
5080-----
5081
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005082- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
5083 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
5084 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00005085
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005086- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
5087 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00005088
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005089- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
5090 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00005091
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00005092- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
5093
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00005094- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
5095 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
5096
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00005097- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005098 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
5099 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
5100 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00005101
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005102- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
5103 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00005104
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00005105- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
5106 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
5107
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00005108- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
5109 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
5110 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00005111
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00005112- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
5113
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00005114- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
5115 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
5116
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00005117- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
5118 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005119 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
5120 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00005121
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00005122- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
5123 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
5124
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005125- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
5126 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
5127 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
5128 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
5129 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00005130
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00005131- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
5132
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00005133- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
5134
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00005135- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
5136
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005137- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
5138 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
5139 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00005140
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00005141- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
5142
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00005143- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
5144 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
5145 incorrectly on __exit__.
5146
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00005147- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
5148
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00005149Misc
5150----
5151
5152- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
5153
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00005154
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005155What's New in Python 2.6 final
5156==============================
5157
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00005158*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005159
5160Core and Builtins
5161-----------------
5162
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00005163- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
5164 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
5165
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00005166- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
5167 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
5168
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00005169- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
5170
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005171Library
5172-------
5173
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00005174- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
5175 true singleton object.
5176
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00005177- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
5178 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
5179 into a float.
5180
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00005181- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
5182
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00005183- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
5184 sizes.
5185
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00005186- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
5187
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00005188- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
5189 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
5190
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00005191Build
5192-----
5193
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00005194- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
5195 installer.
5196
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00005197- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
5198
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005199
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005200What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
5201=============================================
5202
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00005203*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005204
5205Core and Builtins
5206-----------------
5207
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00005208Extension Modules
5209-----------------
5210
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00005211- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
5212 segfault as a result.
5213
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00005214- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
5215 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005216
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00005217Tools/Demos
5218-----------
5219
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00005220- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00005221 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
5222 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
5223 are caught and silenced.
5224
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00005225Build
5226-----
5227
5228- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
5229 C runtime in the Windows installer.
5230
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005231
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005232What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
5233=============================================
5234
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00005235*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005236
5237Core and Builtins
5238-----------------
5239
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00005240- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
5241
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00005242- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
5243 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
5244 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
5245 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
5246 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
5247 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
5248 64bit values.
5249
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00005250- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
5251 error.
5252
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00005253- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
5254 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
5255 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
5256 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
5257
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00005258- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
5259 a unicode argument.
5260
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00005261- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
5262
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00005263- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005264 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00005265 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
5266
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005267- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00005268 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
5269 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
5270 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
5271 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
5272 type object.
5273
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00005274- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
5275
5276- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
5277
5278- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
5279
5280- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
5281
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00005282- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
5283 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
5284
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00005285- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
5286 ``__delslice__``.
5287
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00005288- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
5289 library targets in the Makefile.
5290
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00005291- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
5292 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
5293 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
5294
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00005295C-API
5296-----
5297
5298- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
5299
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005300Library
5301-------
5302
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00005303- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
5304 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
5305
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00005306- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
5307
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00005308- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
5309
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005310- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
5311 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
5312 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
5313
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00005314- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
5315
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005316- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00005317 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
5318
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00005319- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
5320
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00005321- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
5322
5323- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00005324
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00005325- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
5326 its symbolic link.
5327
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00005328- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
5329
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005330- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00005331 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
5332 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
5333
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00005334- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
5335 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
5336
5337- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00005338
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00005339- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
5340 path to the Python binary.
5341
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005342- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00005343 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
5344 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
5345 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
5346
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00005347- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
5348
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005349- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
5350
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00005351- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
5352
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00005353- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
5354
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00005355- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
5356 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00005357
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00005358- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
5359 non-integer floating point number.
5360
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00005361- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00005362 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
5363
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00005364Extension Modules
5365-----------------
5366
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00005367- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
5368 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
5369
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00005370- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
5371 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
5372 without limit.
5373
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00005374- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
5375 exploitation of poor argument checking.
5376
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00005377- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
5378
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00005379- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
5380 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
5381
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00005382- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
5383 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
5384 threads/processes.
5385
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00005386Tests
5387-----
5388
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005389- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
5390 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
5391 that expected warning messages are being reported.
5392
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00005393- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
5394
5395- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00005396
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00005397Build
5398-----
5399
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00005400- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
5401
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00005402- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
5403 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
5404
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00005405- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
5406
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00005407- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00005408 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00005409
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005410
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005411What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
5412================================
5413
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00005414*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005415
5416Core and Builtins
5417-----------------
5418
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00005419- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
5420 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
5421 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
5422 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
5423 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
5424 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
5425 default.
5426
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00005427- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
5428 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
5429
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00005430- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
5431 value again.
5432
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00005433- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
5434 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
5435 and introducing s*.
5436
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00005437- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
5438 object was stored in the freelist.
5439
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00005440- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
5441 ValueError consistently across platforms.
5442
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00005443- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
5444 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
5445 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
5446
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00005447- Apply security patches from Apple.
5448
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00005449- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
5450 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
5451
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00005452- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
5453 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
5454
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00005455- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
5456 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
5457 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
5458
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00005459- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
5460 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
5461 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
5462 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
5463 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
5464 failed have been fixed.
5465
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005466Library
5467-------
5468
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00005469- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
5470
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00005471- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
5472 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
5473
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00005474- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
5475 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
5476 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
5477
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00005478- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
5479 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
5480 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
5481 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
5482 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
5483 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
5484
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00005485- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
5486 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
5487
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00005488- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
5489
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00005490- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
5491
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00005492- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
5493
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00005494- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
5495 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
5496
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00005497- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00005498 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
5499
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005500- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00005501 in a redirect.
5502
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00005503- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00005504 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00005505
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00005506- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
5507 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
5508
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00005509- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
5510 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
5511 regular expression.
5512
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00005513- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
5514 thread-safe.
5515
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00005516- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
5517 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
5518 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
5519
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00005520- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
5521
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00005522- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
5523 menu entries were not deleted.
5524
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00005525- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
5526 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
5527
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00005528- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
5529 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
5530
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00005531- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
5532 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
5533 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
5534
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00005535- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
5536 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
5537 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
5538
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00005539- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
5540 the reload() built-in has been removed.
5541
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00005542- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00005543 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00005544 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
5545 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
5546 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
5547 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
5548 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00005549
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00005550- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
5551 raised an AttributeError.
5552
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00005553- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00005554 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
5555 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00005556
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00005557- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
5558 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
5559
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005560- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00005561
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005562- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00005563 on a closed shelf.
5564
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00005565- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
5566
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005567- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
5568
5569- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
5570 invalid arguments.
5571
5572- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
5573 with None arguments.
5574
5575- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
5576 configuration files.
5577
5578- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
5579
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00005580- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
5581 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
5582 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
5583
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00005584- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
5585 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
5586 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
5587
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00005588Build
5589-----
5590
5591- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
5592
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00005593Documentation
5594-------------
5595
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00005596- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
5597 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
5598
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00005599- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
5600 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
5601 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
5602 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
5603
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005604
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00005605What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
5606================================
5607
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005608*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
5609
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00005610Core and Builtins
5611-----------------
5612
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00005613- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
5614 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
5615 an integer using operator.index().
5616
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00005617- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
5618 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
5619
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00005620- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
5621 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
5622
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00005623- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
5624 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
5625 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
5626
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00005627- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
5628 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
5629 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
5630 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
5631 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
5632 level.
5633
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00005634- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
5635 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
5636 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
5637 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
5638 all imports from that module to fail.
5639
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00005640- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
5641 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
5642 new-style classes.
5643
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00005644- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
5645 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
5646 another file in sys.stdout.
5647
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00005648- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
5649 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
5650 another thread's dictionary.
5651
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00005652- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
5653 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
5654 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
5655 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
5656 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
5657 10, -1).
5658
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00005659- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
5660 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
5661 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00005662
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00005663- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
5664 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
5665 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00005666
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005667Library
5668-------
5669
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00005670- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
5671 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
5672 error when they failed.
5673
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00005674- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
5675
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00005676- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
5677
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00005678- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
5679
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00005680- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
5681
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00005682- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
5683 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
5684
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005685- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00005686
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00005687- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
5688 a valid dlerror() message.
5689
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00005690- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
5691 incomplete structure was created.
5692
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00005693- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
5694
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00005695- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
5696
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005697- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00005698
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00005699- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
5700 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005701 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00005702 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
5703 merged into trunk.
5704
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00005705- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
5706
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00005707- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
5708
5709- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
5710
5711- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
5712 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005713 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00005714
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005715- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005716 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00005717
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00005718- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
5719 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
5720
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005721- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
5722 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
5723
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00005724- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
5725 interrupted by a signal.
5726
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005727- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00005728 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
5729 Prevents a deadlock.
5730
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00005731- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
5732 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
5733 default https port (443).
5734
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00005735- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
5736 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
5737 if the new process uses the threading module.
5738
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00005739Tests
5740-----
5741
5742- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
5743 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
5744 have been added to test_warnings.
5745
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00005746Build
5747-----
5748
5749- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
5750
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005751
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00005752Documentation
5753-------------
5754
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00005755- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00005756 Python 3.0.
5757
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00005758- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
5759
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00005760- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
5761 Python 3.0.
5762
5763- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
5764 Python 3.0.
5765
5766
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005767What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
5768================================
5769
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00005770*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005771
5772Core and Builtins
5773-----------------
5774
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00005775- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
5776 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
5777 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
5778 bus error.
5779
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00005780- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
5781 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
5782
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00005783- Add future_builtins.ascii().
5784
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00005785- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00005786 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00005787
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00005788- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
5789
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00005790- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
5791
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00005792- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
5793
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00005794- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
5795
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005796- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
5797 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
5798 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
5799 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00005800
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00005801- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
5802
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005803- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
5804 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00005805
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005806- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
5807 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00005808
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005809- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
5810 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
5811 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00005812
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00005813- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
5814 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
5815 can't be triggered from Python code.
5816
5817
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005818Extension Modules
5819-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00005820- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005821
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00005822- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
5823
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00005824- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00005825
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00005826- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
5827 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
5828
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00005829- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
5830 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
5831
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00005832- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
5833 weakref.proxy.
5834
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005835- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
5836 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00005837
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00005838- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00005839
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00005840- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00005841 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
5842 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00005843
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005844- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
5845 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
5846 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00005847
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00005848- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
5849 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
5850 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
5851
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005852- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00005853
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00005854- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00005855
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005856Library
5857-------
5858
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00005859- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
5860 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
5861
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00005862- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
5863
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00005864- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
5865 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
5866 sense).
5867
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00005868- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
5869
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00005870- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
5871 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
5872 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
5873 the patch.
5874
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005875- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
5876 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
5877 the patch).
5878
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00005879- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
5880 os.uname exists.
5881
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00005882- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
5883
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00005884- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
5885
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00005886- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
5887 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
5888 pointer-like object.
5889
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00005890- Added the ast module.
5891
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005892- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00005893
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00005894- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
5895 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
5896
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00005897- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
5898 to errno.
5899
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005900- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00005901
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005902- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00005903 msilib.Record objects.
5904
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00005905- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
5906 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
5907
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00005908- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
5909 in Python 3.0.
5910
5911- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
5912 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00005913
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00005914- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
5915 False boolean value now.
5916
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00005917- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
5918 transfers.
5919
5920- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
5921 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00005922
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00005923- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
5924 when the TarFile is closed.
5925
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00005926- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
5927 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
5928 an exception.
5929
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00005930- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
5931 otherwise be produced.
5932
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00005933- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
5934 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
5935
5936- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
5937 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
5938
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00005939- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
5940 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
5941 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
5942
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00005943- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
5944
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005945- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00005946 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
5947 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
5948 'm' or 'c'.
5949
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00005950- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5951
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005952- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
5953 removal in Python 3.0.
5954
5955- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5956 3.0.
5957
5958- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5959 3.0.
5960
5961- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5962 3.0.
5963
5964- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00005965 Python 3.0.
5966
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00005967- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
5968 Python 3.0.
5969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005970- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5971 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00005972
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005973- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5974 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00005975
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005976- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5977 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00005978
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005979- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5980 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00005981
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005982- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00005983 Python 3.0.
5984
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005985- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5986 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00005987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005988- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5989 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00005990
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005991- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5992 3.0.
5993
5994- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
5995 removal in Python 3.0.
5996
5997- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5998 3.0.
5999
6000- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6001 3.0.
6002
6003- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
6004 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00006005
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006006- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
6007 removal in Python 3.0.
6008
6009- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00006010 Python 3.0.
6011
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006012- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6013 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00006014
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00006015- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
6016 Python 3.0.
6017
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00006018- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
6019 Python 3.0.
6020
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006021- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00006022
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00006023- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6024
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00006025- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6026
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00006027- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
6028
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00006029- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6030
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006031- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
6032 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
6033 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00006034
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006035- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
6036 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00006037
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00006038- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6039
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006040- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
6041 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00006042
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00006043- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6044
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00006045- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6046
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00006047- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6048
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00006049- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6050
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00006051- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6052
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006053- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
6054 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00006055
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00006056- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6057
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00006058- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6059
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00006060- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
6061 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
6062 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
6063 OverflowError.
6064
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00006065- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6066
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006067- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
6068 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00006069
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00006070- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6071
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00006072- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6073
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00006074- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6075
6076- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00006077
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006078- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6079
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00006080- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
6081
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00006082- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
6083
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00006084- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00006085
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006086- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
6087 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00006088
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00006089- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006090 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
6091 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
6092 of Python.
6093
6094- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
6095 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
6096
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00006097- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
6098 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00006099
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006100Build
6101-----
6102
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00006103- 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 +00006104
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00006105- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
6106
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00006107- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
6108
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006109- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
6110 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006111 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006112
6113 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
6114
6115 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
6116
6117 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
6118
6119 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
6120
6121 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
6122
6123 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
6124
6125
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00006126C API
6127-----
6128
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00006129- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
6130
6131- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00006132
6133- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
6134 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
6135 PyString names.
6136
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00006137
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006138What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006139=================================
6140
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00006141*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006142
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006143Core and builtins
6144-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00006145
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00006146- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
6147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006148- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
6149 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00006150
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006151- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
6152 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00006153
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006154- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00006155
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00006156Extension Modules
6157-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006158
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006159- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
6160 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00006161
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00006162- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
6163
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006164- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
6165 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006166
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006167- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
6168 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006169
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006170- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
6171 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00006172
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006173- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
6174 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
6175 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
6176 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
6177 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
6178 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
6179 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
6180 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00006181
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006182Library
6183-------
6184
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00006185- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6186
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006187- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
6188 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00006189
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00006190- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
6191
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006192- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
6193 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00006194
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00006195- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
6196 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
6197 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
6198
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00006199- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006200 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00006201
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00006202- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00006203 reference to themselves.
6204
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00006205- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
6206 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
6207 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00006208
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00006209- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
6210 1900-01-01.
6211
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00006212- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
6213 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
6214
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00006215- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
6216 now implemented in C for better performance.
6217
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006218- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
6219 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
6220 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00006221
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006222- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00006223 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
6224 build documentation for more information.
6225
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00006226- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
6227 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
6228 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
6229 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
6230
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00006231- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
6232 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
6233 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
6234
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006235- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
6236 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
6237 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
6238 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00006239
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006240Tests
6241-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006243- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
6244 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
6245 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
6246 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
6247 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
6248 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
6249 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
6250 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
6251 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
6252 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
6253 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
6254 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
6255 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
6256 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
6257 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
6258 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
6259 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
6260 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
6261 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
6262 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
6263
6264 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
6265 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
6266 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
6267 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
6268 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
6269 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
6270 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
6271 access to the underlying socket used.
6272
6273 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
6274 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
6275 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006276
6277 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006278 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006279 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
6280 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
6281
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006282 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
6283 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006284
6285Build
6286-----
6287
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00006288- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
6289
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00006290- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
6291 gcc is used as compiler.
6292
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00006293- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006294 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00006295
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006296C API
6297-----
6298
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006299- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
6300 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
6301 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
6302 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006303
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00006304- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00006305
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006306
6307What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
6308=================================
6309
6310*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
6311
6312Core and builtins
6313-----------------
6314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006315- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
6316 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
6317 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00006318
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00006319- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
6320 cannot be executed.
6321
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00006322- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
6323 reference on the outer class name.
6324
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00006325- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006326 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00006327
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006328- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
6329 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00006330
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00006331- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006332
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00006333- Added backport of bytearray type.
6334
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00006335- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
6336
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00006337- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006338 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
6339 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
6340 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
6341 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
6342 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00006343
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00006344- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
6345
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006346- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
6347 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00006348
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00006349- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006350
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00006351- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
6352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006353- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
6354 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00006355
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006356- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
6357 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00006358
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006359- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00006360 exception instances.
6361
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00006362- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006363 doesn't derive from BaseException.
6364
6365- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
6366 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00006367
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00006368- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
6369 memory usage in some circumstances.
6370
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006371- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
6372 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
6373 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00006374
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00006375- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
6376
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006377- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00006378 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
6379 longer passed.
6380
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00006381- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
6382
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006383- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
6384 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
6385 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00006386
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006387- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
6388 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006389
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00006390- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
6391
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00006392Extension Modules
6393-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00006394
6395- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
6396
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006397Library
6398-------
6399
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006400- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
6401 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006402
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006403- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
6404 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
6405 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006406
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006407- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
6408 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006410- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
6411 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
6412 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00006413
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006414- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
6415 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00006416
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00006417- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
6418
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00006419- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
6420 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
6421 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
6422
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00006423- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
6424
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00006425- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
6426 advertised in the docs.
6427
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006428- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00006429
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006430- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00006431
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006432- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
6433 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00006434
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00006435- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
6436 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
6437
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006438- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
6439 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00006440 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
6441 information as well.
6442
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006443- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
6444 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00006445
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006446- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
6447 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00006448
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006449- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
6450 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
6451 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00006452
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00006453- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
6454 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
6455 strftime.
6456
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00006457- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006458 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
6459 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00006460
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00006461- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
6462 correctly under win32
6463
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006464- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00006465
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00006466- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006467 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
6468 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
6469 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00006470
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00006471- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
6472 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
6473
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006474- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
6475 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00006476
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006477- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
6478 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
6479 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00006480
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006481- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00006482 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
6483
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00006484- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
6485 from 't' to '?'.
6486
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006487- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
6488 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006489 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
6490 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
6491 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006492
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006493- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
6494 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00006495
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00006496Tests
6497-----
6498
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006499- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
6500 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00006501
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00006502- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
6503
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00006504- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
6505
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00006506- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
6507
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00006508- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
6509
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006510- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
6511 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00006512
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00006513- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
6514
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006515- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00006516
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006517- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
6518 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00006519
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00006520- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
6521
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00006522- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
6523
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00006524- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
6525 permission to create files in the root directory.
6526
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00006527Build
6528-----
6529
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00006530- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
6531
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006532- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
6533 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00006534
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00006535- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006536
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006537C API
6538-----
6539
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006540- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006541 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
6542
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006543
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00006544What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
6545=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006546
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00006547*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006548
6549Core and builtins
6550-----------------
6551
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00006552- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00006553 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00006554
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00006555- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
6556
6557- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00006558
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006559- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006560 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00006561
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00006562- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
6563 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
6564 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
6565 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
6566 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
6567 module is:
6568 from future_builtins import hex, oct
6569
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00006570- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
6571 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
6572 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
6573 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
6574 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
6575 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
6576
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00006577- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
6578 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
6579 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
6580 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
6581 PyObject_Format().
6582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006583- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
6584 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
6585 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00006586
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006587- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006588 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
6589 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00006590
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006591- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
6592 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00006593
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006594- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
6595 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
6596 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00006597
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006598- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
6599 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
6600 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00006601
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00006602- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
6603 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
6604
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006605- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006606 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00006607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006608- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
6609 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00006610 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
6611
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006612- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
6613 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
6614 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00006615
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006616- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
6617 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00006618
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006619- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
6620 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00006621
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006622- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
6623 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00006624
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006625- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
6626 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00006627
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006628- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
6629 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
6630 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00006631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006632- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
6633 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
6634 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
6635 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00006636
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00006637- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
6638 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
6639 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
6640
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006641- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00006642 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
6643 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
6644
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006645- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00006646 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
6647 support.
6648
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00006649- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
6650 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
6651
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00006652- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
6653
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006654- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00006655 added.
6656
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00006657- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
6658 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
6659
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006660- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
6661 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00006662
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006663- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
6664 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
6665 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00006666
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006667- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
6668 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00006669
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00006670- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
6671 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00006672
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00006673- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
6674
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006675- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
6676 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
6677 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00006678
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006679- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
6680 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
6681 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00006682
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006683- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00006684
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006685- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
6686 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00006687
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00006688- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006689 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
6690 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00006691
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006692- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
6693 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
6694 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
6695 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00006696
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006697- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00006698
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006699- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
6700 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00006701
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006702- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
6703 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00006704
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00006705- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00006706 SystemError.
6707
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00006708- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
6709 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
6710 __package__ attribute.
6711
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006712- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
6713 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
6714 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00006715
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00006716- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
6717
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006718- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00006719 attribute of an empty cell object.
6720
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006721- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
6722 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00006723
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006724- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
6725 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
6726 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
6727 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00006728
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006729- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
6730 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
6731 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00006732
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00006733- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
6734
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00006735- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
6736
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00006737- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
6738
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006739- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006740 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
6741 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00006742
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006743- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
6744 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
6745 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
6746 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
6747 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
6748 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00006749
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006750- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
6751 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
6752 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
6753 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
6754 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00006755
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006756- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
6757 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
6758 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00006759
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006760- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
6761 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00006762
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00006763- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006764 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
6765 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
6766 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
6767 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
6768 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00006769
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006770- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
6771 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00006772
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00006773- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
6774 with %G.
6775
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006776- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
6777 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00006778
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006779- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00006780
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006781- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00006782
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00006783- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006784 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
6785 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00006786
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00006787- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
6788 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
6789
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00006790- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
6791 calls.
6792
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00006793- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006794 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
6795 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00006796
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00006797- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
6798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006799- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006800 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00006801
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006802- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00006803 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
6804
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00006805- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
6806
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00006807- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
6808 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
6809 remaining characters.
6810
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00006811- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
6812 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
6813
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00006814- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
6815
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00006816- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
6817 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
6818 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
6819 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
6820 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00006821 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
6822 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00006823
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006824- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
6825 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
6826 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
6827 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
6828 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00006829
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006830- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
6831 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
6832 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00006833
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006834- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
6835 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00006836
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006837- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
6838 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
6839 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00006840
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006841- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
6842 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00006843
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00006844- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
6845
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00006846- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
6847 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
6848
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00006849- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006850 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
6851 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
6852 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00006853
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00006854- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
6855 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
6856
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006857- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
6858 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00006859
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006860- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
6861 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
6862 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00006863
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00006864- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006865 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
6866 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00006867
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00006868- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
6869 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006870 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
6871 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00006872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006873- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
6874 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00006875
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006876- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
6877 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00006878
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00006879- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
6880 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
6881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006882- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
6883 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
6884 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00006885
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006886- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
6887 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00006888
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006889- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
6890 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00006891
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006892- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
6893 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
6894 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00006895
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00006896- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
6897 frame's thread state.
6898
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006899- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
6900 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00006901
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006902- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
6903 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00006904
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006905- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
6906 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00006907
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006908- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
6909 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00006910
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006911- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
6912 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00006913
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00006914- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
6915
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00006916- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
6917
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00006918- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
6919
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006920- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
6921 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00006922
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006923- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00006924
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00006925- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
6926 again, no longer the posix error code.
6927
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00006928- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
6929 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
6930
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006931- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
6932 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00006933
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00006934- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
6935 embedded in the string to convert.
6936
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00006937- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
6938 recognized and rejected.
6939
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00006940- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
6941
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00006942- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
6943 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
6944 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00006945
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00006946- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
6947 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
6948
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00006949- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006950 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
6951 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00006952
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006953- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
6954 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
6955 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00006956
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00006957- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
6958
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00006959- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
6960
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00006961- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
6962
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006963- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
6964 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
6965 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00006966
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00006967- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
6968 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
6969 'exceptions'.
6970
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00006971- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
6972 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
6973
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00006974- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
6975 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
6976
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00006977- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
6978
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00006979- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
6980
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00006981- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
6982 head is the original string if sep was not found.
6983
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00006984- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006985 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
6986 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
6987 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00006988
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006989- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00006990
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006991- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
6992 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006993
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00006994- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
6995 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00006996
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006997- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00006998 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
6999 it actually exited.
7000
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007001
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007002Library
7003-------
7004
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007005- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00007006
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00007007- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
7008
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00007009- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
7010
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007011- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
7012 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00007013
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007014- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00007015
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007016- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
7017 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
7018 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00007019
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007020- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
7021 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00007022
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007023- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00007024 (ignore-case)
7025
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00007026- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
7027 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
7028 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
7029 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
7030
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007031- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
7032 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00007033
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007034- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
7035 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00007036
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00007037- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
7038 pickled.
7039
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00007040- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
7041 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
7042
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00007043- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
7044 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
7045 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
7046
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007047- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
7048 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00007049
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007050- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
7051 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
7052 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00007053
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007054- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
7055 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00007056
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007057- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
7058 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00007059
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007060- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
7061 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
7062 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
7063 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00007064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007065- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
7066 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00007067 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
7068
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00007069- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
7070
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007071- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
7072 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00007073
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007074- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00007075
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007076- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
7077 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007078
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007079- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
7080 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007081
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007082- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
7083 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007084
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007085- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
7086 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007087
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007088- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
7089 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
7090 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00007091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007092- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
7093 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00007094
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007095- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
7096 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00007097
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007098- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
7099 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00007100
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007101- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
7102 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00007103
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007104- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
7105 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00007106
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007107- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
7108 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00007109
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00007110- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
7111 with extended local headers.
7112
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007113- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
7114 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00007115
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007116- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00007117 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
7118 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
7119
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007120- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
7121 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00007122
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007123- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
7124 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00007125
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007126- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
7127 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00007128
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007129- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
7130 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00007131
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007132- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
7133 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00007134
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00007135- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007136 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00007137 Textbox.gather().
7138
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00007139- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
7140 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00007141 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
7142 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00007143
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00007144- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
7145 that array types do not live longer than needed.
7146
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00007147- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
7148 and when creating a recursive instance.
7149
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007150- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
7151 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
7152 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00007153
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00007154- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
7155 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
7156 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
7157
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007158- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
7159 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00007160
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007161- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00007162 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
7163
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007164- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00007165 good for long regular expression matches.
7166
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007167- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
7168 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00007169
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00007170- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
7171 the current context.
7172
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00007173- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
7174 zipfile module.
7175
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00007176- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
7177
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007178- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
7179 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00007180
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00007181- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
7182
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00007183- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
7184
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007185- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
7186 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00007187
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00007188- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
7189
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007190- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
7191 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00007192
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007193- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
7194 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00007195
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00007196- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
7197
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00007198- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
7199 Tcl objects.
7200
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00007201- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
7202
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007203- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
7204 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
7205 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
7206 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00007207
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007208- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
7209 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00007210
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007211- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
7212 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00007213
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007214- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
7215 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00007216
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007217- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
7218 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00007219
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00007220- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
7221 method used universal newlines.
7222
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00007223- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
7224 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
7225
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00007226- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
7227 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
7228
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00007229- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
7230 files are updated.
7231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007232- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
7233 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00007234
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00007235- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
7236 configured with --with-system-ffi.
7237
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00007238- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00007239 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00007240
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00007241- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
7242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007243- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
7244 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
7245 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00007246
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007247- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
7248 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00007249
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00007250- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00007251
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00007252- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
7253
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007254- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
7255 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00007256
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00007257- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
7258 to be orderable to properly represent them.
7259
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00007260- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
7261
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00007262- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
7263
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007264- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
7265 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
7266 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00007267
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00007268- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
7269 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
7270
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007271- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
7272 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00007273
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007274- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
7275 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00007276
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00007277- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
7278
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00007279- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
7280
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00007281- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
7282 syllables.
7283
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007284- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
7285 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00007286
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00007287- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
7288
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00007289- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
7290 represent the result in a single character.
7291
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00007292- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
7293
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00007294- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
7295
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00007296- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
7297 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
7298 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
7299
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00007300- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
7301
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007302- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
7303 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00007304
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007305- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
7306 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
7307 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00007308
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007309- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
7310 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
7311 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00007312
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00007313- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007314 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
7315 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00007316
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007317- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
7318 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00007319
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007320- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
7321 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00007322
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00007323- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7324
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00007325- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7326
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007327- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
7328 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
7329 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00007330
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00007331- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7332
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00007333- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7334
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00007335- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
7336 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
7337
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00007338- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
7339
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00007340- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
7341
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00007342- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7343
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007344- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
7345 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00007346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007347- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
7348 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00007349
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00007350- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
7351 the directories).
7352
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00007353- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
7354 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
7355 injecting HTML into the error page.
7356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007357- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
7358 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00007359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007360- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
7361 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007362
7363- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
7364
7365- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
7366
7367- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
7368 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
7369 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
7370
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00007371- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
7372 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
7373 ".cpp" too.
7374
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00007375- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007376 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
7377 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
7378 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00007379
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007380- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
7381 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00007382
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007383- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
7384 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00007385
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00007386- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
7387 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
7388 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
7389 closes patch #723312.
7390
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007391- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
7392 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00007393 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00007394
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00007395- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
7396
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00007397- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
7398 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
7399
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00007400- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
7401
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007402- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
7403 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00007404 directories.
7405
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00007406- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
7407 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
7408 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
7409 trying Mozilla variants.
7410
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00007411- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
7412
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00007413- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
7414 initialization failed.
7415
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00007416- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007417 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
7418 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00007419
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007420- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
7421 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
7422 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00007423
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007424- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
7425 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00007426 correctly now.
7427
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00007428- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
7429
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007430- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
7431 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00007432
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00007433- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
7434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007435- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
7436 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
7437 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00007438
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007439- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
7440 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
7441 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
7442 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00007443
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007444- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
7445 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
7446 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00007447
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00007448- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
7449 whitespace while wrapping.
7450
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00007451- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007452 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
7453 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00007454
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007455- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
7456 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
7457 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00007458
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00007459- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
7460 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
7461
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007462- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
7463 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00007464
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00007465- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
7466 concatenation in robotparser.
7467
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00007468- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007469 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
7470 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00007471
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00007472- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
7473 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
7474
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00007475- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
7476
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007477- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
7478 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
7479 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00007480
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007481- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
7482 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
7483 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00007484
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007485- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
7486 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00007487 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00007488
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00007489- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
7490 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
7491
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00007492- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
7493 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
7494
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00007495- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
7496 returned string up to the first NUL character.
7497
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00007498- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
7499
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00007500- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
7501
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007502- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
7503 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
7504 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00007505
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00007506- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
7507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007508- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
7509 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
7510 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
7511 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
7512 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
7513 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00007514
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007515- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
7516 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00007517
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00007518- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
7519 comprehensive test suite for the module.
7520
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00007521- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
7522 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
7523
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007524- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
7525 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
7526 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00007527
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007528- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00007529 in HTMLParser.
7530
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00007531- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
7532 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
7533
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00007534- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
7535
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00007536- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
7537
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00007538- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
7539
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00007540- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00007541
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00007542- Added itertools.izip_longest().
7543
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007544- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
7545 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00007546
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00007547- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
7548
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00007549- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
7550 doesn't exist.
7551
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00007552- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
7553
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00007554- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
7555
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007556- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00007557
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007558- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
7559 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00007560
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007561- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
7562 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00007563
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007564- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
7565 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00007566
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00007567- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007568 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00007569
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00007570- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
7571 iso8859_16.
7572
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007573- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
7574 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
7575 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
7576 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00007577
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007578- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
7579
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00007580- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
7581 directories.
7582
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00007583- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
7584
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007585- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
7586 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00007587
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007588- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007589 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007590
7591- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007592 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007593
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007594- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007596- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
7597 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00007598
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00007599- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
7600
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00007601- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
7602 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
7603 parameterless foreign function calls work.
7604
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00007605- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
7606
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00007607- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
7608 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
7609 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
7610
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00007611- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
7612 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
7613
7614- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
7615 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
7616
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007617- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
7618 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
7619 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00007620
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007621- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
7622 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00007623
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00007624- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
7625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007626- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
7627 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00007628
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007629- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
7630 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00007631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007632- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
7633 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00007634
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007635- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
7636 separated lists read from logging config files.
7637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007638- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
7639 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
7640 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007641
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007642- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
7643 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00007644
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00007645- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
7646
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007647- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
7648 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00007649
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00007650- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
7651
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00007652- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
7653
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007654- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
7655 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00007656
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00007657- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
7658 regular files.
7659
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00007660- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
7661
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007662- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
7663 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00007664
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007665- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
7666 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00007667
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00007668- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
7669 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
7670
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00007671- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
7672 file name mangling.
7673
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007674- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
7675 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00007676
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00007677- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
7678
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007679- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00007680 HTTPConnection.request().
7681
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00007682- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
7683 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
7684 objects.
7685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007686- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
7687 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
7688 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00007689
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007690- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
7691 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
7692 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00007693
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007694- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00007695
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007696- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00007697
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00007698- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
7699
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00007700- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007701 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00007702
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00007703- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
7704
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00007705- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
7706 GNU modes.
7707
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00007708- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007709 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00007710 opcode.
7711
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00007712- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
7713 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
7714 statement (bug #1586513).
7715
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00007716- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
7717 correctly.
7718
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00007719- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
7720
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007721- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
7722 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00007723
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00007724- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
7725 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
7726 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
7727
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007728- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
7729 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
7730 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00007731
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007732- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
7733 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00007734
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00007735- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
7736
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00007737- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
7738
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007739- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
7740 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00007741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007742- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
7743 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00007744
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00007745- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
7746 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
7747
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00007748- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
7749 with a slash.
7750
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00007751- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
7752 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
7753
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00007754- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007755 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00007756
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00007757- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
7758 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
7759 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
7760
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007761- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
7762 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00007763
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007764- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
7765 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00007766
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007767- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
7768 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00007769
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00007770- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
7771
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007772- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00007773 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007774
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007775- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
7776 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00007777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007778- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
7779 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007780
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00007781- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
7782
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007783- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
7784 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00007785
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007786- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
7787 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
7788 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00007789
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007790- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
7791 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
7792 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00007793
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007794- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
7795 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
7796 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
7797 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00007798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007799- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00007800 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
7801 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007802 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
7803 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
7804 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00007805
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007806- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
7807 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00007808
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007809Extension Modules
7810-----------------
7811
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00007812- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00007813
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00007814- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
7815
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00007816- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
7817
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00007818- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00007819
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007820- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
7821 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00007822
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007823- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
7824 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00007825
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007826- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
7827 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00007828
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00007829- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
7830
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00007831- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
7832
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007833- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
7834 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00007835
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00007836- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
7837
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007838- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
7839 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00007840
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00007841- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
7842
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007843- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
7844 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00007845
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007846- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00007847 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
7848 parameter.
7849
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007850- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
7851 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
7852 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
7853 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00007854
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007855- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
7856 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00007857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007858- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
7859 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00007860
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007861- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
7862 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
7863 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00007864
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007865- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
7866 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00007867
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00007868- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
7869
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00007870- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
7871
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007872- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
7873 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
7874 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00007875
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007876- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
7877 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00007878
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00007879- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
7880
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00007881- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
7882
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007883- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
7884 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
7885 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
7886 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00007887
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00007888- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
7889 get_completion_type to readline.
7890
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00007891- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
7892 structure.
7893
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00007894- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
7895
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00007896- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
7897
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00007898- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
7899 intended for RECNO databases.
7900
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00007901- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007902 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
7903 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
7904 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
7905 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
7906 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
7907 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00007908
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00007909- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
7910
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00007911- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
7912
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007913- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
7914 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
7915 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
7916 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
7917 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00007918
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00007919- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
7920 error in spite of a succesful compression.
7921
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00007922- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
7923 of Py_ssize_t.
7924
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00007925- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
7926 fractional times. With unittest.
7927
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007928- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
7929 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
7930 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00007931
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00007932- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
7933
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00007934- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
7935
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00007936- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
7937
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00007938- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
7939
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007940- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007941 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00007942
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007943- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
7944 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00007945
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007946- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
7947 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00007948
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00007949- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
7950 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
7951
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007952- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
7953 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
7954 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00007955
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00007956- Speed up function calls into the math module.
7957
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00007958- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
7959 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
7960 does.
7961
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00007962- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
7963
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00007964- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
7965
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00007966- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
7967
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00007968- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
7969
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00007970- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
7971 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
7972
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00007973- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
7974 datetime's strftime function.
7975
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00007976- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
7977
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00007978- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
7979
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007980- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
7981 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00007982
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00007983- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
7984
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00007985- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007986 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
7987 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00007988
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007989- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
7990 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00007991
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007992- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007993 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
7994 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007995 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
7996 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00007997 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007998 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007999
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00008000- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
8001 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
8002 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
8003 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
8004
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00008005- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
8006 were transposed.
8007
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00008008- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
8009 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00008010
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008011- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
8012 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
8013 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00008014
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00008015- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
8016
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00008017- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
8018
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00008019- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
8020
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00008021- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00008022
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00008023- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
8024 databases without a DBEnv.
8025
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00008026- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
8027
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008028Tests
8029-----
8030
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00008031- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00008032
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008033- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
8034 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00008035
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008036- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
8037 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
8038 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00008039
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00008040- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
8041 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00008042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008043- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
8044 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00008045
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008046- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
8047 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
8048 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00008049
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00008050- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
8051
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008052- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
8053 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
8054 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00008055
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00008056- Added some tests for modulefinder.
8057
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00008058- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
8059
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00008060- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
8061 number properly.
8062
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008063- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
8064 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008065
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008066Tools
8067-----
8068
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008069- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
8070 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
8071 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00008072 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00008073
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008074- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
8075 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
8076 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00008077
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00008078- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
8079 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
8080
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008081- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
8082 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008083
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008084- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
8085 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008086
8087- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008088 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
8089 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008090
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008091
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008092Documentation
8093-------------
8094
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00008095- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
8096 include new optional delay argument.
8097
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008098- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
8099 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
8100 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008101
8102- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
8103 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
8104
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00008105- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
8106 Python tutorial.
8107
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00008108- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
8109
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008110- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
8111 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00008112
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00008113- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
8114 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
8115
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00008116- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
8117 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
8118
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00008119- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
8120
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00008121- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
8122 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
8123
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008124- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00008125 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
8126
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00008127- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
8128 docs.
8129
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00008130- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
8131
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00008132- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
8133 string pointed to by its parameter.
8134
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00008135- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
8136
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00008137- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008138 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
8139 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
8140 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00008141
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008142
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00008143Tools/Demos
8144-----------
8145
8146- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00008147
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00008148- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008149 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
8150 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00008151
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00008152- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
8153 file not to get reported properly.
8154
8155
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008156Build
8157-----
8158
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008159- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
8160 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
8161 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00008162
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00008163- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
8164 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
8165
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00008166- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
8167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008168- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008169
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008170- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
8171 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
8172 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
8173 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008175- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
8176 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008177
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00008178- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
8179
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00008180- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
8181 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
8182 without this option!
8183
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00008184- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
8185
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00008186- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008187 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
8188 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
8189 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00008190
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008191- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
8192 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00008193
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00008194- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
8195
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00008196- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
8197
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008198- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
8199 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00008200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008201- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
8202 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00008203
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00008204- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
8205 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
8206 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
8207
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00008208- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
8209 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
8210
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00008211- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
8212
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00008213- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
8214
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008215- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
8216 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00008217
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008218- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00008219 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
8220
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008221- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
8222 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00008223
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00008224- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
8225
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008226- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00008227
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00008228- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
8229
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00008230- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
8231
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00008232- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008233
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008234- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
8235 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
8236 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00008237
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008238
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008239C API
8240-----
8241
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008242- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
8243 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
8244 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
8245 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00008246
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008247- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
8248 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
8249 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00008250
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00008251- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00008252
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008253- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
8254 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
8255 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008256
8257- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
8258
8259- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
8260 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
8261
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008262- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
8263 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
8264 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
8265 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008266
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008267- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
8268 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008269
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008270- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
8271 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
8272 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008273
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008274- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
8275 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008276
8277- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
8278
8279- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
8280
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008281- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
8282
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008283- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
8284
8285- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
8286 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
8287
8288- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
8289 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
8290
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008291- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
8292 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
8293 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008295- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
8296 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008297
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008298- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
8299 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00008300
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008301
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008302Windows
8303-------
8304
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008305- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
8306 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
8307 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
8308 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00008309
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008310- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
8311 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008312
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00008313- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
8314
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008315
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008316Mac
8317---
8318
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00008319- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8320
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00008321- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8322
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008323- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
8324 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
8325 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00008326
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00008327----
8328
8329**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**