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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00007What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
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10*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
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12Core and Builtins
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15Library
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Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +000019What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
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Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +000022*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +000023
24Core and Builtins
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26
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +000027- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
28 with invalid values.
29
Eric Smithc4ab8332009-11-29 17:40:57 +000030- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the
31 result to upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f'
32 no longer converts to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +000033
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +000034- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats
35 larger than 1e50 in absolute value.
36
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +000037- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g.,
38 "%.120g" % 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the
39 requested 120 significant digits instead.
40
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +000041- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parenthesis.
42
Benjamin Peterson48f0a8d2009-11-19 23:19:29 +000043- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for def f((x)=3): pass.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +000044
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +000045- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread
46 on MacOSX 10.6.
47
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +000048- Issue #7117: repr(x) for a float x returns a result based on the
49 shortest decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under
50 correct rounding (with round-half-to-even rounding mode).
51 Previously it gave a string based on rounding x to 17 decimal digits.
52 repr(x) for a complex number behaves similarly. On platforms where
53 the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is not supported (see below),
54 repr is unchanged.
55
56- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and
57 string-to-float conversions within Python are now correctly rounded.
58 Places these conversions occur include: str for floats and complex
59 numbers; the float and complex constructors; old-style and new-style
60 numeric formatting; serialization and deserialization of floats and
61 complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json; parsing of float and
62 imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float conversion.
63
64 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's
65 well-known dtoa.c, providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C
66 functions. This code is supported on Windows, and on Unix-like
67 platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as the C compiler. There may be a
68 small number of platforms on which correct operation of this code
69 cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably, this applies
70 to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64, and
71 to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit
72 precision and Python's configure script is unable to determine how
73 to change the FPU precision. On these platforms conversions use the
74 platform strtod and dtoa, as before.
75
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +000076- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. round
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +000077 now uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions
78 described above (when available), and so produces correctly rounded
79 results that will display nicely under the float repr. There are
80 two related small changes: (1) round now accepts any class with an
81 __index__ method for its second argument (but no longer accepts
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +000082 floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively large second
83 integer argument (e.g., round(1.234, 10**100)) no longer raises an
84 exception.
85
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +000086- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
87
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +000088- Fix several issues with compile(). The input can now contain Windows and Mac
89 newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
90
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +000091- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a
92 unicode string.
93
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +000094- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions
95 raised during the formation of an output tuple.
96
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +000097- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
98
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +000099- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
100 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
101 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
102
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +0000103- Issue #7168: Document PyFloat_AsString and PyFloat_AsReprString, and
104 note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
105
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000106- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
107 crash in GAE.
108
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +0000109- Issue #7140: The __dict__ of a module should not be cleared unless the module
110 is the only object holding a reference to it.
111
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +0000112- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler.
113 There should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use.
114 Patch by Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
115
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +0000116- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one
117 thread, and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
118
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +0000119- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
120 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
121 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
122 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
123
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +0000124- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
125 assignment.
126
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +0000127- Issue #5329: Fix os.popen* regression from 2.5 with commands as a
128 sequence running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone
129 and Jani Hakala.
130
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +0000131- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
132 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
133
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +0000134- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
135 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
136
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +0000137- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +0000138 take keyword arguments.
139
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +0000140- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid
141 UTF-32 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
142
Mark Dickinson4b9d4732009-09-27 16:05:21 +0000143- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and
144 long -> string conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +0000145
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +0000146- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
147
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +0000148- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
149 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
150
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +0000151- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
152
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +0000153- classmethod no longer checks if its argument is callable.
154
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +0000155- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
156 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
157
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +0000158- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with
159 a target of tuple unpacking.
160
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +0000161- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
162
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +0000163- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
164
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +0000165- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
166 occurred in the argument chain.
167
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +0000168- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
169
170- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +0000171 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
172
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +0000173- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to print(), the default
174 separator and end should be unicode also.
175
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +0000176- Issue #6119: Fixed a incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of builtin
177 functions and methods.
178
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +0000179- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
180 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
181 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
182
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +0000183- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
184
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +0000185- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
186 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
187
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +0000188- Removed the ipaddr module.
189
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +0000190- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
191 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
192
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +0000193- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from compile() were being masked.
194
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +0000195- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
196 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
197
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +0000198- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
199
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +0000200- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
201 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
202
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +0000203- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Benjamin Peterson95e5ebe2009-07-12 23:56:18 +0000204 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +0000205
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +0000206- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
207 function with __func__.
208
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +0000209- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
210 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +0000211
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +0000212- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
213 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
214
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +0000215- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
216 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
217 and imaginary literals.
218
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +0000219- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
220
Benjamin Peterson0c3b4c62009-05-16 23:34:19 +0000221- __instancecheck__ and __subclasscheck__ are now completely ignored on classic
222 classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +0000223
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +0000224- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
225
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +0000226- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
227 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
228 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
229 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
230 didn't match that of float('-nan').
231
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +0000232- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
233 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
234 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
235 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
236 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
237 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
238 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
239 the same way.
240
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +0000241- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
242 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
243 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
244
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +0000245- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
246 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
247
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000248- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +0000249 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
250
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +0000251- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
252 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
253
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +0000254- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
255 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
256
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +0000257- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
258 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
259
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +0000260- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
261 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
262
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +0000263- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
264
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +0000265- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
266 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
267
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +0000268- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
269 floats, ints, and longs.
270
271- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles
272 leading zero formatting poorly.
273
274- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if
275 we're using no type code and we have an exponent.
276
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +0000277- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions
278 correctly rounded.
279
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +0000280- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
281 some builtin types.
282
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +0000283- Issue #1869: fix a couple of minor round() issues. round(5e15+1)
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +0000284 was giving 5e15+2; round(-0.0) was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +0000285
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +0000286- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
287
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +0000288- Issue #5704: the "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
289
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +0000290- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
291 its clarity and its speed.
292
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +0000293- Issue #2396: the memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
294
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +0000295- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
296 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
297
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +0000298- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
299
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +0000300- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
301 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
302
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +0000303- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
304 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
305 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
306 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
307
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +0000308- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
309 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
310 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
311
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +0000312- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
313 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
314 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
315 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
316 default. Add sys.long_info structseq to provide information about
317 the internal format.
318
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +0000319- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
320 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
321
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +0000322- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
323 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
324 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
325
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +0000326- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
327 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
328
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +0000329- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for warnings.showwarning() a
330 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
331
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +0000332- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
333 used when using str.format() with str, unicode, long, int, and
334 float arguments.
335
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +0000336- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division
337 for ints and longs.
338
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +0000339- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average
340 saving is 2 bytes per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long
341 on a 64-bit system.
342
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +0000343- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
344 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
345
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +0000346- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
347 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
348
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +0000349- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
350
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000351- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +0000352 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
353 zip(), and bytearray().
354
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +0000355- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
356 functions.
357
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +0000358- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
359 OSError.
360
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +0000361- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
362
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +0000363- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
364 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
365 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
366
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +0000367- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
368 __next__ method.
369
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +0000370- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
371
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +0000372- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
373
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000374- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
375 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
376 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +0000377 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000378 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
379
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +0000380- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
381
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +0000382- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
383 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
384 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
385 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
386 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
387
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +0000388- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
389
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +0000390- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
391 file with `str' filename on Windows.
392
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +0000393- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
394 did not get collected.
395
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +0000396- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
397 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
398
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +0000399- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
400 directory on POSIX systems.
401
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +0000402- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
403 systems.
404
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +0000405- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
406 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
407
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +0000408- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
409 fail.
410
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +0000411- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
412 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
413 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
414
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +0000415- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
416
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +0000417- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions.
418 Original patch by Neal Norwitz.
419
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +0000420- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
421 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
422
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +0000423- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
424 exceptions.
425
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +0000426- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyStringObject)" with
427 "offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
428 str instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
429 (on average) per string allocation.
430
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +0000431- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
432 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
433 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
434
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +0000435- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__
436 instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
437
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +0000438- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
439 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
440
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +0000441- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +0000442 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
443 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
444 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
445
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +0000446- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
447 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
448
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +0000449- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the imageop.rgb2rgb8() function.
450
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +0000451- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
452
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +0000453- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
454
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +0000455- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
456 exec statement.
457
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +0000458- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
459 method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
460
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +0000461- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
462 __future__ import didn't work.
463
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000464- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +0000465 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000466
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +0000467- On windows, os.chdir given unicode was not working if GetCurrentDirectoryW
468 returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful this code path is
469 really executed because I cannot move to such directory on win2k)
470
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +0000471- Issue #4069: When set.remove(element) is used with a set element, the element
472 is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the eventual
473 KeyError would always report the empty frozenset([]) as the missing key. Now
474 it correctly refers to the initial element.
475
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +0000476- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
477 which there are buffer exports.
478
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +0000479- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
480
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +0000481- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
482
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +0000483- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
484
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +0000485- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
486 short file names.
487
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +0000488- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
489 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +0000490
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +0000491- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
492 returned them on 64bit platforms.
493
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +0000494- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
495 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
496 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
497 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
498
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +0000499- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
500 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
501
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +0000502- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the
503 pymalloc allocator will be automatically disabled when running under
504 Valgrind. This gives improved memory leak detection when running
505 under Valgrind, while taking advantage of pymalloc at other times.
506
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000507Library
508-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +0000509
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +0000510- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
511 msvc9compiler.
512
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +0000513- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
514 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement
515 it. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
516
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +0000517- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
518 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
519 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
520
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +0000521- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by
522 Robert Collins.
523
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +0000524- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
525
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +0000526- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
527 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
528 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
529
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +0000530- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()`
531 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by
532 Brian Quinlan.
533
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +0000534- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
535
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +0000536- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters
537
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +0000538- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
539 raises ReadError on empty files.
540
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +0000541- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +0000542 be 2.
543
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +0000544- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method instead to __unicode__
545 instead of __str__.
546
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +0000547- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in
548 case of an error.
549
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +0000550- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
551 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
552
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +0000553- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
554
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +0000555- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using
556 TLS or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
557
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +0000558- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from
559 the registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
560
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +0000561- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code
562 to execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well
563 as zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
564 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
565 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
566
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +0000567- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
568 a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
569 default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
570 local connections.
571
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +0000572- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
573 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
574 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
575
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +0000576- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
577 than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
578 `thread.start_new_thread()`.
579
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +0000580- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
581 which are part of a reference cycle.
582
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +0000583- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
584 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
585
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +0000586- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time
587 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
588 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
589
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +0000590- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
591 reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
592 lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
593 afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
594 OSes such as Solaris.
595
Mark Dickinson6f390012009-10-29 12:11:18 +0000596- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
597 sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
598 fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
599 than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +0000600
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +0000601- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
602 header as required by RFC 1952.
603
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +0000604- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
605 Distutils.
606
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +0000607- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
608 an uppercase.
609
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +0000610- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
611 several threads at once.
612
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +0000613- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
614 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
615
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +0000616- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +0000617 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
618
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +0000619- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
620 protocol 2.
621
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +0000622- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
623
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +0000624- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
625 larger than emax.
626
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +0000627- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the
628 GNU readline library version 6.0.
629
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +0000630- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
631
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +0000632- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code
633
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +0000634- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
635
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +0000636- Add support to the `ihooks` module for relative imports.
637
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000638- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +0000639
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +0000640- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
641 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000642
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +0000643- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
644 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
645
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +0000646- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
647 is too large to fit in the current precision.
648
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000649- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +0000650 Distutils.
651
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +0000652- Issue #7031: Add TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance() methods.
653
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +0000654- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an `array.array` to
655 `httplib.HTTPConnection.send`. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
656
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +0000657- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX
658 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
659
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +0000660- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
661
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +0000662- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
663
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +0000664- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
665 does now always result in NULL.
666
667- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize
668 correctly with base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +0000669
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +0000670- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing
671 debug message.
672
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +0000673- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
674
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +0000675- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
676
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +0000677- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
678 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
679 Michael Haubenwallner.
680
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +0000681- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
682 instances.
683
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +0000684- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
685 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
686 in long(Decimal('nan')).
687
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +0000688- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
689 with no type specifier.
690
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +0000691- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder revers to non-existing version.plist
692
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +0000693- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
694 repeatedly concatenating strings in httplib's
695 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
696 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
697
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +0000698- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
699 as documented.
700
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +0000701- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
702 names in the webbrowser module.
703
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +0000704- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
705
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +0000706- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
707 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
708
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +0000709- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
710
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +0000711- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
712
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +0000713- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
714
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +0000715- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
716
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +0000717- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
718
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +0000719- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
720 ScrolledText.
721
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +0000722- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
723
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +0000724- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
725 the xview* and yview* methods.
726
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +0000727- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
728 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
729 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
730 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
731
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +0000732- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
733 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
734
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +0000735- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
736 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
737 The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
738
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +0000739- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
740 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
741 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
742
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +0000743- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
744 opening an empty or very small file.
745
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +0000746- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
747 containing incomplete data.
748
749- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +0000750 behavior is similar when used with -O.
751
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +0000752- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
753
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +0000754- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
755 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
756 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
757
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +0000758- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +0000759
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +0000760- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
761 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
762 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
763 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
764
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +0000765- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
766
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000767- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
768
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +0000769- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
770 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
771
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000772- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +0000773
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000774- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +0000775 attribute.
776
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +0000777- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
778
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +0000779- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
780 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
781
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +0000782- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
783
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000784- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +0000785 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
786 descriptor errors
787
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000788- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +0000789 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
790
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +0000791- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
792
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +0000793- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated
794 a 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
795 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
796
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +0000797- Issue #6314: logging.basicConfig() performs extra checks on the "level"
798 argument.
799
800- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +0000801 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
802
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +0000803- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
804
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +0000805- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
806
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +0000807- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
808
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +0000809- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
810 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
811
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +0000812- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when annonymous.
813 (On Unix)
814
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +0000815- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
816 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
817 ``io`` module.
818
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +0000819- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
820
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000821- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
822 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
823
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +0000824- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
825
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +0000826- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
827 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
828 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
829
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +0000830- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
831
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +0000832- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
833 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
834
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +0000835- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
836
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +0000837- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
838 whitespace.
839
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +0000840- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
841 argument to the 'help' function.
842
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +0000843- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
844 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
845
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +0000846- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
847 the directory already exists.
848
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +0000849- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
850 specific Python version.
851
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +0000852- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
853 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
854 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
855
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +0000856- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
857 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000858
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +0000859- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
860 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
861 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
862
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +0000863- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
864 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
865
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000866- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +0000867 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
868
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +0000869- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
870
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +0000871- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
872 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
873
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000874- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +0000875 subcommand.
876
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +0000877- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
878 deepcopy()ing.
879
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +0000880- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
881
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +0000882- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
883
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +0000884- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
885
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +0000886- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
887 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
888
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +0000889- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
890 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
891
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +0000892- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
893 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
894
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +0000895- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
896 for old-style extensions.
897
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000898- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
899 trying to print a traceback.
900
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +0000901- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
902
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000903- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +0000904 ld is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
905
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +0000906- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
907 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
908 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
909 Cournapeau.
910
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +0000911- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
912 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
913
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +0000914- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
915 return directories.
916
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +0000917- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
918
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +0000919- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
920 looking for files given by a relative filename.
921
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +0000922- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
923 extracting a file to the root directory.
924
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +0000925- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
926
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +0000927- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
928 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
929 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
930
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +0000931- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
932 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
933
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +0000934- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
935 Contributed by Google.
936
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +0000937- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
938
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000939- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +0000940 anymore.
941
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +0000942- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
943
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +0000944- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
945 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
946 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
947
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +0000948- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
949 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
950 initialized before.
951
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +0000952- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
953 names which should not be exported.
954
955- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +0000956 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
957
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +0000958- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
959
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +0000960- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
961 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
962
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +0000963- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
964
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +0000965- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
966 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
967 instances.
968
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +0000969- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
970 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
971 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
972
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +0000973- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
974
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000975- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
976
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +0000977- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
978 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
979 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
980 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
981 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
982
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +0000983- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
984
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +0000985- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
986 a value in SafeConfigParser.
987
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +0000988- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
989
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000990- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +0000991 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
992
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +0000993- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are
994 now collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
995
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +0000996- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
997 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
998
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +0000999- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
1000 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
1001
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001002- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00001003
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001004- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00001005
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001006- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00001007
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001008- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00001009
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001010- Issue #1726172: fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00001011
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001012- Issue #2625: added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00001013 mailbox.MH.get_message().
1014
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001015- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to mulitiprocessing.manager
Andrew M. Kuchling59631852009-04-09 11:23:36 +00001016 so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00001017
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001018- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of the
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00001019 object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added docs
1020 to note the limitation
1021
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001022- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00001023 of the equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001024
1025- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00001026 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001027
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00001028- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were added.
1029 addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
1030 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
1031 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
1032
1033- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
1034 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001035
1036- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00001037 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001038
1039- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00001040 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00001041
1042- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
1043 called immediately before and after a test run.
1044
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00001045- Issue #5663: better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
1046 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
1047 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
1048 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001049
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00001050- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing
1051
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00001052- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
1053 printing out values.
1054
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00001055- Issue #4572: added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
1056
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00001057- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
1058 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
1059 threads.
1060
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00001061- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
1062
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00001063- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
1064
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00001065- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
1066 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
1067 that it was failing to do localization.
1068
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00001069- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
1070 Brandl.
1071
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00001072- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
1073 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
1074
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00001075- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
1076 with the threading module.
1077
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00001078- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
1079
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00001080- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
1081
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00001082- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
1083 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
1084
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001085- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00001086 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
1087 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
1088
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00001089- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not
1090 defined (part of issue #5035).
1091
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00001092- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
1093 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
1094 output compared to previous Python versions.
1095
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00001096- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
1097
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00001098- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
1099 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using
1100 a with statement.
1101
1102- The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences in lists,
1103 tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and comparison
1104 specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error messages
1105 actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google. [Issue #2578]
1106
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00001107- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
1108 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
1109 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
1110 partial bzip2 compressed data.
1111
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00001112- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
1113 even if an exception occurs.
1114
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00001115- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
1116 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
1117
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00001118- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
1119 specifier to Decimal.__format__
1120
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00001121- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
1122 '>' alignment characters.
1123
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00001124- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
1125 character.
1126
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00001127- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
1128 Tim Golden.
1129
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00001130- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
1131
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00001132- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
1133 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
1134 window flashing.
1135
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00001136- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
1137 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
1138 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
1139
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00001140- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
1141
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00001142- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
1143 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
1144
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00001145- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
1146
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00001147- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
1148
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00001149- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
1150
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00001151- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
1152
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00001153- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
1154
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00001155- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
1156 ready received.
1157
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00001158- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
1159 import guess_extension`` was used.
1160
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00001161- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
1162 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
1163
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00001164- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
1165 overrun.
1166
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00001167- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
1168 bdist_rpm command.
1169
1170- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
1171
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00001172- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
1173
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00001174- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
1175 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
1176
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00001177- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
1178 in Distutils tests.
1179
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001180- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
1181 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001182
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00001183- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
1184 The file was resized to wrong size.
1185
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00001186- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
1187
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001188- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00001189 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
1190
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001191- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00001192 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
1193
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00001194- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
1195 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
1196
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00001197- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
1198
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00001199- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on
1200 LP64 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
1201
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00001202- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
1203 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
1204
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00001205- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
1206 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
1207
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00001208- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
1209 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
1210 ctime of the files involved.
1211
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00001212- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
1213 deadlock.
1214
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00001215- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
1216 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
1217 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
1218
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00001219- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
1220
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001221- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case.
1222 This is a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
1223
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00001224- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
1225 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
1226
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00001227- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
1228 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
Nick Coghlanc3623b12009-02-08 01:46:01 +00001229 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
1230 Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00001231
Guilherme Polo363161a2009-02-06 22:48:07 +00001232- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
1233 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
1234 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
1235 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00001236
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001237- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00001238 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
1239
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00001240- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
1241 Ross Light.
1242
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00001243- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
1244 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
1245
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001246- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00001247 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
1248
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00001249- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
1250
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00001251- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
1252 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
1253 "src.new").
1254
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001255- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00001256 Iterator and MutableSet.
1257
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00001258- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
1259
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001260- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00001261 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
1262
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00001263- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
1264 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
1265
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00001266- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
1267 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
1268
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00001269- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
1270
Raymond Hettingerd081abc2009-01-27 02:58:49 +00001271- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
1272 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00001273
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001274- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00001275 allowed non-integer arguments.
1276
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00001277- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
1278 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
1279 examples.
1280
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00001281- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
1282 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
1283
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00001284- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
1285 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
1286
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00001287- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
1288 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
1289
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001290- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00001291 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
1292 be disabled, and not compiled.
1293
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00001294- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
1295 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
1296 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
1297 traditional 2.x file object.
1298
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001299- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
1300 parameter was set.
1301
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001302- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
1303 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00001304 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001305
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00001306- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
1307 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
1308 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
1309
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00001310- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
1311 in sharedctypes.py.
1312
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00001313- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
1314 __getattr__.
1315
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00001316- Issue #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
1317 opened with other applications.
1318
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00001319- Issue #1162154: inspect.getmembers() now skips attributes that raise
1320 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
1321
1322- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00001323 counting.
1324
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00001325- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
1326
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00001327- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
1328 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
1329 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
1330 Jacques Frechet.
1331
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00001332- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
1333
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001334- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00001335 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
1336
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00001337- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
1338 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been
1339 deprecated for removal in 3.x
1340
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00001341- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
1342 to the decimal module.
1343
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00001344- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
1345 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
1346
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00001347- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
1348 the function is not a generator.
1349
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001350- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
1351 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00001352
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001353- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00001354 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
1355
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001356- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
1357 cast as floats.
1358
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001359- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001360 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
1361
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00001362- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
1363
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00001364- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
1365
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00001366- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
1367 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
1368
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00001369- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
1370 works as expected in the interactive environment.
1371
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00001372- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
1373 Gabriel Genellina.
1374
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00001375- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
1376
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00001377- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
1378
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00001379- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
1380 handling.
1381
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00001382- Issue #4574: fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
1383 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16)
1384 and gets split on a chunk boundary.
1385
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00001386- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
1387 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
1388 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
1389
1390- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
1391 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
1392 Alexander Belopolsky.
1393
1394- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
1395 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
1396 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
1397 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
1398 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
1399 Alexander Belopolsky.
1400
1401- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
1402 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
1403 Alexander Belopolsky.
1404
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00001405- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
1406 when given an unicode string.
1407
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00001408- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
1409
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00001410- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
1411 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
1412 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
1413
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00001414- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the
1415 --dry-run option.
1416
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00001417- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
1418 libs.
1419
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00001420- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
1421 statements.
1422
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00001423- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
1424 not a malformed option.
1425
Gregory P. Smith26576802008-12-05 02:27:01 +00001426- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00001427 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
1428
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00001429- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
1430 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
1431 Content-Disposition headers.
1432
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00001433- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
1434 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
1435 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
1436 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
1437 doesn't configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00001438
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00001439- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
1440 exception.
1441
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00001442- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if
1443 the ctypes module is not present.
1444
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00001445- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
1446
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00001447- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
1448
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00001449- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
1450 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
1451
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00001452- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
1453 and then remove it.
1454
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00001455- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
1456
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00001457- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
1458 debugging.
1459
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00001460- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
1461 inspect.getargvalues.
1462
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00001463- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
1464
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00001465- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
1466 to claiming it is Mature.
1467
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00001468- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
1469 when protocol 0 is used.
1470
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00001471- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
1472 to be consistent with Apple tools.
1473
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00001474- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001475 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00001476
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00001477- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
1478
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00001479- Issue #1737832 : plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
1480 module.
1481
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00001482- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process
1483 creates one of the needed subdirectories.
1484
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00001485- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script
1486
1487- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'
1488
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00001489- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
1490 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
1491
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00001492- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
1493 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
1494 and getservbyport().
1495
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00001496- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
1497 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
1498
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00001499- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
1500 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
1501
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00001502- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
1503 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
1504 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
1505
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00001506- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
1507
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00001508Tools/Demos
1509-----------
1510
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00001511- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
1512
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00001513- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
1514
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00001515Build
1516-----
1517
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00001518- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it
1519 compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported
1520 problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
1521
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001522- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX:
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00001523 ``intel`` builds a distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures,
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001524 while ``3-way`` builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386``
1525 and ``x86_64`` architectures.
1526
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00001527- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
1528
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00001529- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
1530
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00001531- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
1532 extensions are installed.
1533
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00001534- Issue 5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
1535 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
1536
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00001537- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
1538 and a python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
1539 Clinton Roy.
1540
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00001541- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
1542
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00001543- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
1544
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00001545- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
1546 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1547
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00001548- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00001549 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00001550
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00001551- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
1552
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00001553- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
1554
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00001555- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
1556
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00001557- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
1558
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00001559- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
1560
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00001561- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
1562
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00001563- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
1564
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00001565- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
1566
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00001567- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
1568
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00001569- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
1570
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00001571- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
1572
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00001573- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
1574
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00001575- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
1576
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00001577- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
1578
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00001579Documentation
1580-------------
1581
1582- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
1583 for Windows.
1584
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00001585- Issue #6801 : symmetric_difference_update also accepts |.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001586 Thanks to Carl Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00001587
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001588C-API
1589-----
1590
Mark Dickinson26285902009-12-04 11:30:16 +00001591- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V)
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00001592 and PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
1593
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00001594- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated
1595 PyOS_ascii_atof and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
1596
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00001597- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string
1598 instead. This is in preparation for (but not strictly related to)
1599 issue #7117, short float repr.
1600
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001601- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
Benjamin Petersonfe8745d2009-08-17 13:39:41 +00001602 NULL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00001603
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00001604- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
1605 PyCode_Addr2Line().
1606
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00001607- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
1608 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
1609
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00001610- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
1611 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
1612
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00001613- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
1614
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00001615- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
1616 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
1617
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00001618- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
1619
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00001620- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
1621 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
1622
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001623- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
1624 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001625
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00001626- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall is now thread safe and can be used for
1627 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001628
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00001629Extension Modules
1630-----------------
1631
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00001632- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
1633
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00001634- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
1635
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00001636- Issue #3366: Add gamma function to math module.
1637
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00001638- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
1639 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that
1640 range.
1641
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00001642- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit
1643 on OSX.
1644
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00001645- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called
1646 with something other than a tuple as first argument.
1647
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00001648- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
1649 module.
1650
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00001651- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
1652
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00001653- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
1654 tokenizer not stopping.
1655
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00001656- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
1657 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
1658 matched characters with category 'No'.
1659
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00001660- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack
1661 with an integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range
1662 integer now consistently raises struct.error.
1663
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00001664- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies
1665 for the integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*'
1666 represents any of '=', '<', '>'.
1667
1668 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning.
1669 Previously it only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
1670
1671 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always
1672 result in struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method
1673 could be packed by 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h'
1674 ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a __long__ method could be packed by
1675 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with neither __int__ nor __long__,
1676 TypeError used to be raised (with a confusing error message) for
1677 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and struct.error in other cases.
1678
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00001679- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
1680
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00001681- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python
1682 GIL is now released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
1683
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00001684- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
1685 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
1686 implementations or external openssl library).
1687
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00001688- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00001689
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00001690- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
1691
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00001692- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
1693
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00001694- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
1695
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00001696- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
1697
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00001698- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
1699 OpenBSD.
1700
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00001701- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
1702
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00001703- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
1704
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00001705- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
1706
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00001707Tests
1708-----
1709
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00001710- Issue #7431: use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a
1711 file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
1712 user running the tests.
1713
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00001714- Issue #7324: add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to
1715 catch the case of an option with no handler.
1716
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00001717- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until
1718 a test fails. Can be combined with -j.
1719
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00001720- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
1721
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00001722- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
1723 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
1724
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00001725- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
1726 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
1727 reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
1728 still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
1729 :func:`thread._count()`.
1730
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00001731- Issue #7151: fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no
1732 longer runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
1733
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00001734- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
1735 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
1736
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00001737- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
1738 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
1739 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00001740
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00001741- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
1742
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00001743- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
1744 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
1745
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00001746- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
1747 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
1748 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
1749 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
1750
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00001751- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
1752 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
1753
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00001754- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
1755 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
1756 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
1757 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
1758 can be adjusted to use it over time.
1759
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00001760- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
1761
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00001762- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
1763
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00001764- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
1765
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00001766- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001767 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00001768 from test support, which does the conversion.
1769
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00001770- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
1771
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00001772- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
1773 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
1774 incorrectly on __exit__.
1775
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00001776- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
1777
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00001778Misc
1779----
1780
1781- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
1782
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001783
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001784What's New in Python 2.6 final
1785==============================
1786
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00001787*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001788
1789Core and Builtins
1790-----------------
1791
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00001792- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
1793 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
1794
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00001795- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
1796 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
1797
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00001798- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
1799
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001800Library
1801-------
1802
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00001803- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
1804 true singleton object.
1805
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00001806- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
1807 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
1808 into a float.
1809
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00001810- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
1811
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00001812- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
1813 sizes.
1814
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00001815- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
1816
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00001817- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
1818 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
1819
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001820Build
1821-----
1822
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00001823- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
1824 installer.
1825
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001826- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
1827
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001828
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001829What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
1830=============================================
1831
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00001832*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001833
1834Core and Builtins
1835-----------------
1836
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001837Extension Modules
1838-----------------
1839
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00001840- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
1841 segfault as a result.
1842
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001843- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
1844 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001845
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00001846Tools/Demos
1847-----------
1848
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00001849- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00001850 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
1851 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
1852 are caught and silenced.
1853
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00001854Build
1855-----
1856
1857- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
1858 C runtime in the Windows installer.
1859
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001860
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001861What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
1862=============================================
1863
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00001864*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001865
1866Core and Builtins
1867-----------------
1868
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00001869- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
1870
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00001871- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
1872 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
1873 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
1874 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
1875 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
1876 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
1877 64bit values.
1878
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00001879- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
1880 error.
1881
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00001882- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
1883 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
1884 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
1885 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
1886
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00001887- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
1888 a unicode argument.
1889
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001890- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
1891
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001892- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001893 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001894 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
1895
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001896- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00001897 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
1898 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
1899 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
1900 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
1901 type object.
1902
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00001903- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
1904
1905- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
1906
1907- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
1908
1909- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
1910
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00001911- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
1912 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
1913
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00001914- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
1915 ``__delslice__``.
1916
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00001917- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
1918 library targets in the Makefile.
1919
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00001920- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
1921 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
1922 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
1923
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00001924C-API
1925-----
1926
1927- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
1928
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001929Library
1930-------
1931
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00001932- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
1933 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
1934
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00001935- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
1936
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00001937- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
1938
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001939- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
1940 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
1941 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
1942
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00001943- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
1944
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001945- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00001946 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
1947
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00001948- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
1949
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00001950- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
1951
1952- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00001953
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00001954- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
1955 its symbolic link.
1956
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001957- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
1958
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00001959- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
1960 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
1961 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
1962
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00001963- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
1964 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
1965
1966- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00001967
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00001968- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
1969 path to the Python binary.
1970
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00001971- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
1972 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
1973 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
1974 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
1975
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00001976- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
1977
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001978- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
1979
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00001980- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
1981
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00001982- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
1983
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001984- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
1985 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00001986
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00001987- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
1988 non-integer floating point number.
1989
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001990- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00001991 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
1992
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00001993Extension Modules
1994-----------------
1995
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00001996- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
1997 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
1998
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00001999- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
2000 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
2001 without limit.
2002
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00002003- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
2004 exploitation of poor argument checking.
2005
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00002006- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
2007
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00002008- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
2009 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
2010
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00002011- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
2012 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
2013 threads/processes.
2014
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00002015Tests
2016-----
2017
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00002018- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
2019 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
2020 that expected warning messages are being reported.
2021
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00002022- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
2023
2024- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00002025
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00002026Build
2027-----
2028
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00002029- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
2030
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00002031- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
2032 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
2033
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00002034- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
2035
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00002036- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00002037 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00002038
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002039
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002040What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
2041================================
2042
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00002043*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002044
2045Core and Builtins
2046-----------------
2047
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00002048- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
2049 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
2050 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
2051 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
2052 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
2053 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
2054 default.
2055
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00002056- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
2057 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
2058
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00002059- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
2060 value again.
2061
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00002062- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
2063 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
2064 and introducing s*.
2065
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00002066- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
2067 object was stored in the freelist.
2068
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00002069- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
2070 ValueError consistently across platforms.
2071
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00002072- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
2073 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
2074 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
2075
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00002076- Apply security patches from Apple.
2077
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00002078- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
2079 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
2080
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00002081- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
2082 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
2083
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00002084- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
2085 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
2086 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
2087
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00002088- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
2089 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
2090 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
2091 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
2092 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
2093 failed have been fixed.
2094
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002095Library
2096-------
2097
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00002098- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
2099
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00002100- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
2101 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
2102
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00002103- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
2104 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
2105 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
2106
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00002107- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
2108 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
2109 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
2110 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
2111 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
2112 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
2113
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00002114- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
2115 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
2116
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00002117- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
2118
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00002119- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
2120
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00002121- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
2122
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00002123- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
2124 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
2125
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00002126- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00002127 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
2128
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00002129- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
2130 in a redirect.
2131
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00002132- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00002133 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00002134
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00002135- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
2136 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
2137
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00002138- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
2139 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
2140 regular expression.
2141
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00002142- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
2143 thread-safe.
2144
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00002145- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
2146 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
2147 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
2148
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00002149- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
2150
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00002151- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
2152 menu entries were not deleted.
2153
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00002154- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
2155 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
2156
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00002157- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
2158 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
2159
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00002160- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
2161 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
2162 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
2163
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00002164- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
2165 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
2166 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
2167
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00002168- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
2169 the reload() built-in has been removed.
2170
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00002171- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00002172 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00002173 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
2174 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
2175 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
2176 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
2177 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00002178
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00002179- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
2180 raised an AttributeError.
2181
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00002182- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00002183 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
2184 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00002185
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00002186- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
2187 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
2188
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00002189- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
2190
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00002191- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
2192 on a closed shelf.
2193
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00002194- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
2195
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002196- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
2197
2198- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
2199 invalid arguments.
2200
2201- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
2202 with None arguments.
2203
2204- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
2205 configuration files.
2206
2207- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
2208
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00002209- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
2210 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
2211 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
2212
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00002213- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
2214 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
2215 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
2216
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00002217Build
2218-----
2219
2220- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
2221
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00002222Documentation
2223-------------
2224
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00002225- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
2226 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
2227
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00002228- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
2229 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
2230 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
2231 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
2232
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002233
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00002234What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
2235================================
2236
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002237*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
2238
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00002239Core and Builtins
2240-----------------
2241
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00002242- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
2243 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
2244 an integer using operator.index().
2245
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00002246- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
2247 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
2248
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00002249- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
2250 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
2251
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00002252- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
2253 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
2254 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
2255
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00002256- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
2257 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
2258 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
2259 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
2260 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
2261 level.
2262
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00002263- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
2264 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
2265 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
2266 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
2267 all imports from that module to fail.
2268
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00002269- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
2270 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
2271 new-style classes.
2272
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00002273- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
2274 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
2275 another file in sys.stdout.
2276
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00002277- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
2278 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
2279 another thread's dictionary.
2280
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00002281- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
2282 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
2283 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
2284 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
2285 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
2286 10, -1).
2287
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002288- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
2289 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
2290 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00002291
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002292- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
2293 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
2294 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00002295
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002296Library
2297-------
2298
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00002299- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
2300 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
2301 error when they failed.
2302
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00002303- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
2304
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00002305- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
2306
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00002307- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
2308
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00002309- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
2310
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002311- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
2312 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
2313
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002314- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002315
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00002316- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
2317 a valid dlerror() message.
2318
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00002319- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
2320 incomplete structure was created.
2321
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00002322- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
2323
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00002324- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
2325
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002326- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00002327
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002328- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
2329 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002330 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002331 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
2332 merged into trunk.
2333
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00002334- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
2335
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002336- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
2337
2338- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
2339
2340- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
2341 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002342 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002343
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002344- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002345 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00002346
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00002347- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
2348 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
2349
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002350- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
2351 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
2352
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00002353- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
2354 interrupted by a signal.
2355
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002356- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00002357 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
2358 Prevents a deadlock.
2359
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00002360- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
2361 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
2362 default https port (443).
2363
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00002364- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
2365 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
2366 if the new process uses the threading module.
2367
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00002368Tests
2369-----
2370
2371- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
2372 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
2373 have been added to test_warnings.
2374
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00002375Build
2376-----
2377
2378- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
2379
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002380
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002381Documentation
2382-------------
2383
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00002384- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00002385 Python 3.0.
2386
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00002387- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
2388
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002389- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2390 Python 3.0.
2391
2392- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2393 Python 3.0.
2394
2395
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002396What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
2397================================
2398
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00002399*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002400
2401Core and Builtins
2402-----------------
2403
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00002404- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
2405 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
2406 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
2407 bus error.
2408
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00002409- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
2410 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
2411
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00002412- Add future_builtins.ascii().
2413
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00002414- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00002415 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00002416
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00002417- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
2418
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00002419- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
2420
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00002421- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
2422
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00002423- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
2424
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002425- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
2426 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
2427 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
2428 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00002429
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00002430- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
2431
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002432- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
2433 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00002434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002435- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
2436 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00002437
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002438- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
2439 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
2440 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00002441
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00002442- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
2443 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
2444 can't be triggered from Python code.
2445
2446
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002447Extension Modules
2448-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00002449- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002450
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00002451- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
2452
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00002453- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00002454
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00002455- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
2456 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
2457
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00002458- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
2459 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
2460
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00002461- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
2462 weakref.proxy.
2463
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002464- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
2465 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00002466
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002467- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00002468
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00002469- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00002470 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
2471 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00002472
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002473- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
2474 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
2475 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00002476
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00002477- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
2478 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
2479 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
2480
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002481- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00002482
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00002483- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00002484
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002485Library
2486-------
2487
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00002488- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
2489 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
2490
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00002491- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
2492
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00002493- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
2494 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
2495 sense).
2496
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00002497- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
2498
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00002499- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
2500 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
2501 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
2502 the patch.
2503
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002504- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
2505 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
2506 the patch).
2507
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00002508- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
2509 os.uname exists.
2510
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00002511- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2512
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00002513- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2514
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00002515- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
2516 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
2517 pointer-like object.
2518
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00002519- Added the ast module.
2520
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002521- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00002522
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00002523- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
2524 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
2525
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00002526- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
2527 to errno.
2528
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002529- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00002530
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002531- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00002532 msilib.Record objects.
2533
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00002534- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
2535 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
2536
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00002537- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
2538 in Python 3.0.
2539
2540- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
2541 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00002542
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00002543- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
2544 False boolean value now.
2545
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00002546- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
2547 transfers.
2548
2549- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
2550 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00002551
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00002552- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
2553 when the TarFile is closed.
2554
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00002555- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
2556 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
2557 an exception.
2558
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00002559- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
2560 otherwise be produced.
2561
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00002562- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
2563 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
2564
2565- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
2566 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
2567
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00002568- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
2569 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
2570 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
2571
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00002572- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
2573
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002574- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00002575 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
2576 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
2577 'm' or 'c'.
2578
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00002579- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2580
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002581- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
2582 removal in Python 3.0.
2583
2584- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2585 3.0.
2586
2587- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2588 3.0.
2589
2590- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2591 3.0.
2592
2593- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00002594 Python 3.0.
2595
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00002596- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
2597 Python 3.0.
2598
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002599- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2600 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00002601
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002602- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2603 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00002604
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002605- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2606 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00002607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002608- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2609 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00002610
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002611- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00002612 Python 3.0.
2613
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002614- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2615 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00002616
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002617- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2618 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00002619
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002620- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2621 3.0.
2622
2623- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
2624 removal in Python 3.0.
2625
2626- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2627 3.0.
2628
2629- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2630 3.0.
2631
2632- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
2633 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002634
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002635- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
2636 removal in Python 3.0.
2637
2638- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00002639 Python 3.0.
2640
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002641- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2642 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00002643
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00002644- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2645 Python 3.0.
2646
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00002647- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2648 Python 3.0.
2649
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002650- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00002651
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00002652- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2653
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00002654- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2655
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00002656- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
2657
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00002658- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2659
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002660- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
2661 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
2662 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00002663
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002664- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
2665 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00002666
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00002667- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2668
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002669- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2670 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00002671
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00002672- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2673
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00002674- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2675
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00002676- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2677
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00002678- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2679
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00002680- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2681
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002682- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
2683 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00002684
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00002685- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2686
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00002687- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2688
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00002689- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
2690 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
2691 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
2692 OverflowError.
2693
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00002694- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2695
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002696- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2697 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00002698
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00002699- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2700
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00002701- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2702
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00002703- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2704
2705- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00002706
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002707- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2708
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00002709- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
2710
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00002711- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
2712
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00002713- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00002714
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002715- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
2716 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00002717
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002718- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002719 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
2720 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
2721 of Python.
2722
2723- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
2724 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
2725
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00002726- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
2727 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00002728
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002729Build
2730-----
2731
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00002732- 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 +00002733
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00002734- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
2735
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00002736- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
2737
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002738- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
2739 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002740 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002741
2742 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
2743
2744 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
2745
2746 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
2747
2748 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
2749
2750 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
2751
2752 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
2753
2754
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002755C API
2756-----
2757
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00002758- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
2759
2760- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002761
2762- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
2763 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
2764 PyString names.
2765
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00002766
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002767What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002768=================================
2769
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00002770*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002771
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002772Core and builtins
2773-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002774
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00002775- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
2776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002777- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
2778 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00002779
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002780- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
2781 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00002782
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002783- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00002784
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00002785Extension Modules
2786-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002787
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002788- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
2789 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00002790
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00002791- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
2792
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002793- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
2794 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002795
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002796- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
2797 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002799- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
2800 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00002801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002802- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
2803 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
2804 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
2805 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
2806 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
2807 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
2808 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
2809 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00002810
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002811Library
2812-------
2813
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00002814- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2815
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002816- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
2817 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00002818
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00002819- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
2820
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002821- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
2822 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00002823
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00002824- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
2825 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
2826 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
2827
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002828- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002829 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002830
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00002831- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00002832 reference to themselves.
2833
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00002834- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
2835 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
2836 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00002837
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00002838- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
2839 1900-01-01.
2840
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00002841- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
2842 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
2843
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00002844- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
2845 now implemented in C for better performance.
2846
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002847- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
2848 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
2849 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00002850
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002851- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00002852 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
2853 build documentation for more information.
2854
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00002855- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
2856 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
2857 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
2858 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
2859
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00002860- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
2861 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
2862 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
2863
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002864- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
2865 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
2866 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
2867 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00002868
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002869Tests
2870-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002871
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002872- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
2873 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
2874 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
2875 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
2876 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
2877 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
2878 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
2879 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
2880 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
2881 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
2882 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
2883 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
2884 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
2885 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
2886 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
2887 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
2888 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
2889 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
2890 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
2891 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
2892
2893 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
2894 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
2895 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
2896 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
2897 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
2898 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
2899 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
2900 access to the underlying socket used.
2901
2902 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
2903 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
2904 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002905
2906 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002907 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002908 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
2909 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
2910
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002911 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
2912 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002913
2914Build
2915-----
2916
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00002917- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
2918
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00002919- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
2920 gcc is used as compiler.
2921
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002922- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002923 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002924
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002925C API
2926-----
2927
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002928- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
2929 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
2930 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
2931 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002932
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00002933- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00002934
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002935
2936What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
2937=================================
2938
2939*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
2940
2941Core and builtins
2942-----------------
2943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002944- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
2945 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
2946 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00002947
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00002948- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
2949 cannot be executed.
2950
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00002951- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
2952 reference on the outer class name.
2953
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002954- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002955 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002956
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002957- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
2958 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00002959
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00002960- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002961
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00002962- Added backport of bytearray type.
2963
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002964- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
2965
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002966- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002967 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
2968 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
2969 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
2970 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
2971 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002972
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00002973- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
2974
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002975- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
2976 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00002977
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00002978- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002979
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00002980- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
2981
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002982- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
2983 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00002984
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002985- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
2986 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00002987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002988- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00002989 exception instances.
2990
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002991- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002992 doesn't derive from BaseException.
2993
2994- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
2995 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002996
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00002997- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
2998 memory usage in some circumstances.
2999
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003000- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
3001 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
3002 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00003003
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00003004- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
3005
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003006- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00003007 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
3008 longer passed.
3009
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00003010- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
3011
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003012- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
3013 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
3014 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00003015
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003016- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
3017 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00003018
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00003019- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
3020
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00003021Extension Modules
3022-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00003023
3024- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
3025
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00003026Library
3027-------
3028
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003029- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
3030 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003031
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003032- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
3033 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
3034 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003035
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003036- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
3037 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003038
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003039- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
3040 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
3041 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00003042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003043- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
3044 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00003045
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00003046- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
3047
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00003048- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
3049 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
3050 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
3051
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00003052- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
3053
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00003054- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
3055 advertised in the docs.
3056
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003057- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00003058
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003059- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00003060
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003061- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
3062 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00003063
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00003064- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
3065 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
3066
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003067- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
3068 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00003069 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
3070 information as well.
3071
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003072- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
3073 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00003074
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003075- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
3076 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00003077
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003078- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
3079 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
3080 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00003081
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00003082- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
3083 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
3084 strftime.
3085
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00003086- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003087 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
3088 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00003089
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00003090- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
3091 correctly under win32
3092
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003093- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00003094
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00003095- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003096 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
3097 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
3098 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00003099
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00003100- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
3101 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
3102
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003103- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
3104 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00003105
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003106- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
3107 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
3108 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00003109
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003110- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00003111 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
3112
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00003113- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
3114 from 't' to '?'.
3115
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00003116- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
3117 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003118 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
3119 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
3120 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00003121
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003122- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
3123 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00003124
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00003125Tests
3126-----
3127
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003128- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
3129 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00003130
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00003131- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
3132
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00003133- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
3134
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00003135- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
3136
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00003137- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
3138
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003139- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
3140 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00003141
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00003142- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
3143
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00003144- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
3145
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003146- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
3147 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00003148
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00003149- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
3150
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00003151- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
3152
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00003153- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
3154 permission to create files in the root directory.
3155
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00003156Build
3157-----
3158
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00003159- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
3160
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003161- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
3162 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00003163
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00003164- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003165
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003166C API
3167-----
3168
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003169- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003170 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
3171
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003172
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00003173What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
3174=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003175
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00003176*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003177
3178Core and builtins
3179-----------------
3180
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00003181- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00003182 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00003183
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00003184- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
3185
3186- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00003187
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003188- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00003189 issue 215555 for a discussion.
3190
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00003191- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
3192 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
3193 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
3194 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
3195 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
3196 module is:
3197 from future_builtins import hex, oct
3198
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00003199- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
3200 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
3201 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
3202 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
3203 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
3204 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
3205
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00003206- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
3207 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
3208 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
3209 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
3210 PyObject_Format().
3211
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003212- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
3213 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
3214 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00003215
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003216- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003217 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
3218 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00003219
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003220- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
3221 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00003222
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003223- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
3224 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
3225 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00003226
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003227- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
3228 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
3229 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00003230
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00003231- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
3232 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
3233
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003234- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
3235 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00003236
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003237- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
3238 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00003239 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
3240
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003241- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
3242 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
3243 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00003244
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003245- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
3246 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00003247
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003248- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
3249 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00003250
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003251- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
3252 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00003253
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003254- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
3255 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00003256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003257- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
3258 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
3259 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00003260
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003261- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
3262 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
3263 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
3264 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00003265
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00003266- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
3267 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
3268 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
3269
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003270- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00003271 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
3272 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
3273
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003274- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00003275 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
3276 support.
3277
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00003278- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
3279 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
3280
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00003281- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
3282
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003283- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00003284 added.
3285
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00003286- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
3287 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
3288
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003289- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
3290 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00003291
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003292- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
3293 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
3294 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00003295
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003296- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
3297 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00003298
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00003299- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
3300 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00003301
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00003302- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
3303
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003304- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
3305 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
3306 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00003307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003308- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
3309 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
3310 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00003311
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003312- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00003313
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003314- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
3315 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00003316
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003317- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003318 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
3319 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003320
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003321- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
3322 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
3323 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
3324 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00003325
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003326- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00003327
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003328- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
3329 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00003330
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003331- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
3332 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00003333
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00003334- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00003335 SystemError.
3336
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00003337- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
3338 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
3339 __package__ attribute.
3340
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003341- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
3342 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
3343 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00003344
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00003345- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
3346
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003347- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00003348 attribute of an empty cell object.
3349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003350- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
3351 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00003352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003353- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
3354 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
3355 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
3356 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00003357
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003358- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
3359 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
3360 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00003361
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00003362- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
3363
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00003364- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
3365
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00003366- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
3367
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003368- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
3369 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
3370 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00003371
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003372- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
3373 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
3374 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
3375 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
3376 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
3377 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00003378
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003379- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
3380 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
3381 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
3382 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
3383 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00003384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003385- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
3386 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
3387 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00003388
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003389- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
3390 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00003391
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003392- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003393 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
3394 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
3395 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
3396 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
3397 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003398
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003399- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
3400 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00003401
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00003402- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
3403 with %G.
3404
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003405- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
3406 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00003407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003408- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00003409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003410- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00003411
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003412- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003413 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
3414 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003415
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00003416- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
3417 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
3418
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00003419- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
3420 calls.
3421
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003422- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003423 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
3424 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003425
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00003426- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
3427
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003428- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00003429 inherited from a builtin base.
3430
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003431- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00003432 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
3433
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00003434- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
3435
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00003436- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
3437 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
3438 remaining characters.
3439
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00003440- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
3441 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
3442
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00003443- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
3444
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003445- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
3446 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
3447 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
3448 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
3449 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00003450 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
3451 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003452
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003453- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
3454 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
3455 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
3456 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
3457 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00003458
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003459- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
3460 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
3461 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00003462
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003463- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
3464 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00003465
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003466- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
3467 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
3468 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00003469
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003470- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
3471 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00003472
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00003473- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
3474
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00003475- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
3476 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
3477
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003478- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003479 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
3480 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
3481 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003482
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00003483- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
3484 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
3485
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003486- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
3487 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00003488
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003489- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
3490 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
3491 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00003492
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003493- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003494 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
3495 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003496
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003497- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
3498 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003499 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
3500 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003501
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003502- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
3503 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00003504
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003505- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
3506 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00003507
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00003508- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
3509 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
3510
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003511- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
3512 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
3513 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00003514
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003515- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
3516 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00003517
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003518- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
3519 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00003520
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003521- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
3522 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
3523 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00003524
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00003525- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
3526 frame's thread state.
3527
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003528- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
3529 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00003530
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003531- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
3532 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00003533
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003534- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
3535 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00003536
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003537- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
3538 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00003539
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003540- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
3541 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00003542
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00003543- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
3544
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00003545- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
3546
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00003547- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
3548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003549- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
3550 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00003551
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003552- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00003553
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00003554- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
3555 again, no longer the posix error code.
3556
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00003557- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
3558 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
3559
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003560- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
3561 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00003562
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00003563- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
3564 embedded in the string to convert.
3565
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00003566- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
3567 recognized and rejected.
3568
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003569- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
3570
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003571- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
3572 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
3573 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00003574
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00003575- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
3576 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
3577
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003578- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003579 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
3580 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003581
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003582- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
3583 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
3584 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00003585
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00003586- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
3587
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00003588- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
3589
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00003590- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
3591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003592- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
3593 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
3594 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00003595
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00003596- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
3597 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
3598 'exceptions'.
3599
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00003600- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
3601 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
3602
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00003603- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
3604 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
3605
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00003606- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
3607
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00003608- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
3609
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00003610- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
3611 head is the original string if sep was not found.
3612
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003613- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003614 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
3615 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
3616 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003617
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003618- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00003619
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003620- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
3621 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003622
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003623- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
3624 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00003625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003626- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00003627 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
3628 it actually exited.
3629
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003630
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003631Library
3632-------
3633
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003634- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00003635
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00003636- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
3637
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00003638- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
3639
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003640- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
3641 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00003642
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003643- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00003644
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003645- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
3646 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
3647 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00003648
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003649- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
3650 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00003651
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003652- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00003653 (ignore-case)
3654
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00003655- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
3656 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
3657 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
3658 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
3659
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003660- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
3661 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00003662
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003663- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
3664 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00003665
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00003666- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
3667 pickled.
3668
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00003669- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
3670 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
3671
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00003672- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
3673 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
3674 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
3675
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003676- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
3677 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00003678
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003679- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
3680 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
3681 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00003682
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003683- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
3684 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00003685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003686- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
3687 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00003688
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003689- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
3690 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
3691 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
3692 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00003693
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003694- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
3695 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003696 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
3697
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00003698- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
3699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003700- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
3701 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00003702
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003703- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00003704
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003705- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
3706 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003707
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003708- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
3709 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003710
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003711- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
3712 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003713
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003714- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
3715 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003716
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003717- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
3718 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
3719 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00003720
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003721- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
3722 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00003723
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003724- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
3725 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00003726
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003727- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
3728 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00003729
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003730- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
3731 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00003732
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003733- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
3734 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00003735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003736- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
3737 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00003738
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00003739- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
3740 with extended local headers.
3741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003742- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
3743 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00003744
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003745- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00003746 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
3747 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
3748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003749- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
3750 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00003751
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003752- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
3753 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00003754
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003755- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
3756 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00003757
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003758- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
3759 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00003760
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003761- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
3762 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00003763
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003764- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003765 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003766 Textbox.gather().
3767
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003768- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
3769 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00003770 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
3771 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003772
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00003773- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
3774 that array types do not live longer than needed.
3775
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003776- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
3777 and when creating a recursive instance.
3778
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003779- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
3780 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
3781 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00003782
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00003783- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
3784 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
3785 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
3786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003787- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
3788 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00003789
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003790- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00003791 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
3792
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003793- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00003794 good for long regular expression matches.
3795
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003796- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
3797 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00003798
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00003799- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
3800 the current context.
3801
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00003802- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
3803 zipfile module.
3804
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00003805- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
3806
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003807- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
3808 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00003809
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00003810- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
3811
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00003812- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
3813
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003814- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
3815 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00003816
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00003817- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
3818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003819- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
3820 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00003821
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003822- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
3823 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00003824
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00003825- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
3826
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00003827- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
3828 Tcl objects.
3829
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00003830- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
3831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003832- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
3833 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
3834 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
3835 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00003836
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003837- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
3838 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00003839
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003840- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
3841 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00003842
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003843- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
3844 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00003845
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003846- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
3847 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00003848
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00003849- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
3850 method used universal newlines.
3851
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00003852- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
3853 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
3854
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00003855- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
3856 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
3857
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00003858- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
3859 files are updated.
3860
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003861- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
3862 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003863
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00003864- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
3865 configured with --with-system-ffi.
3866
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003867- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003868 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003869
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00003870- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
3871
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003872- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
3873 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
3874 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00003875
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003876- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
3877 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00003878
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00003879- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00003880
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00003881- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
3882
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003883- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
3884 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00003885
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00003886- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
3887 to be orderable to properly represent them.
3888
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00003889- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
3890
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00003891- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
3892
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003893- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
3894 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
3895 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00003896
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00003897- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
3898 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
3899
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003900- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
3901 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00003902
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003903- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
3904 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00003905
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00003906- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
3907
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00003908- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
3909
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00003910- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
3911 syllables.
3912
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003913- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
3914 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00003915
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00003916- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
3917
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00003918- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
3919 represent the result in a single character.
3920
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00003921- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
3922
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00003923- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
3924
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00003925- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
3926 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
3927 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
3928
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00003929- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
3930
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003931- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
3932 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00003933
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003934- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
3935 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
3936 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00003937
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003938- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
3939 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
3940 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00003941
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003942- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003943 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
3944 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003945
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003946- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
3947 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00003948
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003949- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
3950 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00003951
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00003952- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3953
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00003954- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3955
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003956- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
3957 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
3958 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00003959
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00003960- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3961
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00003962- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3963
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00003964- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
3965 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
3966
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00003967- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
3968
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00003969- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
3970
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00003971- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
3972
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003973- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
3974 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00003975
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003976- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
3977 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00003978
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00003979- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
3980 the directories).
3981
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00003982- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
3983 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
3984 injecting HTML into the error page.
3985
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003986- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
3987 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00003988
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003989- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
3990 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003991
3992- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
3993
3994- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
3995
3996- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
3997 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
3998 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
3999
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00004000- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
4001 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
4002 ".cpp" too.
4003
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00004004- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004005 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
4006 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
4007 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00004008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004009- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
4010 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00004011
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004012- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
4013 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00004014
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00004015- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
4016 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
4017 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
4018 closes patch #723312.
4019
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004020- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
4021 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00004022 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00004023
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00004024- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
4025
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00004026- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
4027 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
4028
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00004029- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
4030
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004031- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
4032 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00004033 directories.
4034
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00004035- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
4036 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
4037 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
4038 trying Mozilla variants.
4039
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00004040- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
4041
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00004042- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
4043 initialization failed.
4044
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00004045- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004046 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
4047 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00004048
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004049- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
4050 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
4051 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00004052
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004053- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
4054 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00004055 correctly now.
4056
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00004057- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
4058
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004059- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
4060 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00004061
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00004062- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
4063
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004064- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
4065 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
4066 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00004067
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004068- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
4069 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
4070 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
4071 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00004072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004073- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
4074 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
4075 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00004076
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00004077- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
4078 whitespace while wrapping.
4079
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00004080- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004081 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
4082 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00004083
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004084- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
4085 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
4086 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00004087
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00004088- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
4089 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
4090
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004091- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
4092 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00004093
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00004094- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
4095 concatenation in robotparser.
4096
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00004097- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004098 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
4099 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00004100
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00004101- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
4102 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
4103
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00004104- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
4105
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004106- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
4107 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
4108 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00004109
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004110- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
4111 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
4112 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00004113
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004114- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
4115 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00004116 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00004117
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00004118- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
4119 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
4120
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00004121- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
4122 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
4123
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00004124- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
4125 returned string up to the first NUL character.
4126
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00004127- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
4128
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00004129- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
4130
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004131- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
4132 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
4133 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00004134
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00004135- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
4136
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004137- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
4138 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
4139 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
4140 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
4141 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
4142 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00004143
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004144- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
4145 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00004146
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00004147- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
4148 comprehensive test suite for the module.
4149
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00004150- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
4151 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
4152
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004153- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
4154 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
4155 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00004156
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004157- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00004158 in HTMLParser.
4159
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00004160- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
4161 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
4162
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00004163- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
4164
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00004165- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
4166
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00004167- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
4168
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00004169- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00004170
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00004171- Added itertools.izip_longest().
4172
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004173- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
4174 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00004175
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00004176- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
4177
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00004178- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
4179 doesn't exist.
4180
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00004181- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
4182
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00004183- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
4184
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004185- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00004186
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004187- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
4188 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00004189
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004190- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
4191 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00004192
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004193- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
4194 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00004195
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00004196- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004197 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00004198
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00004199- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
4200 iso8859_16.
4201
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004202- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
4203 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
4204 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
4205 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00004206
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004207- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
4208
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00004209- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
4210 directories.
4211
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00004212- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
4213
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004214- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
4215 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00004216
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004217- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004218 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004219
4220- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004221 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004222
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004223- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004225- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
4226 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00004227
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00004228- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
4229
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00004230- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
4231 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
4232 parameterless foreign function calls work.
4233
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00004234- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
4235
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00004236- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
4237 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
4238 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
4239
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00004240- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
4241 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
4242
4243- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
4244 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
4245
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004246- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
4247 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
4248 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00004249
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004250- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
4251 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00004252
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00004253- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
4254
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004255- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
4256 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00004257
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004258- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
4259 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00004260
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004261- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
4262 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00004263
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004264- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
4265 separated lists read from logging config files.
4266
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004267- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
4268 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
4269 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004270
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004271- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
4272 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00004273
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00004274- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
4275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004276- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
4277 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00004278
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00004279- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
4280
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00004281- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
4282
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004283- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
4284 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00004285
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00004286- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
4287 regular files.
4288
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00004289- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
4290
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004291- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
4292 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00004293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004294- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
4295 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00004296
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00004297- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
4298 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
4299
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00004300- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
4301 file name mangling.
4302
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004303- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
4304 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00004305
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00004306- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
4307
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004308- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00004309 HTTPConnection.request().
4310
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00004311- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
4312 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
4313 objects.
4314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004315- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
4316 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
4317 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00004318
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004319- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
4320 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
4321 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00004322
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004323- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00004324
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004325- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00004326
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00004327- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
4328
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004329- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004330 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004331
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00004332- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
4333
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00004334- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
4335 GNU modes.
4336
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00004337- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
4338 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
4339 opcode.
4340
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00004341- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
4342 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
4343 statement (bug #1586513).
4344
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004345- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
4346 correctly.
4347
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00004348- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
4349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004350- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
4351 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00004352
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00004353- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
4354 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
4355 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
4356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004357- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
4358 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
4359 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00004360
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004361- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
4362 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00004363
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00004364- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
4365
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00004366- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
4367
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004368- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
4369 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00004370
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004371- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
4372 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00004373
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00004374- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
4375 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
4376
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00004377- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
4378 with a slash.
4379
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00004380- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
4381 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
4382
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00004383- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004384 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00004385
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00004386- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
4387 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
4388 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
4389
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004390- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
4391 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00004392
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004393- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
4394 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00004395
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004396- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
4397 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00004398
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00004399- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
4400
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004401- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00004402 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004403
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004404- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
4405 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00004406
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004407- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
4408 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004409
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00004410- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
4411
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004412- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
4413 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00004414
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004415- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
4416 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
4417 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004418
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004419- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
4420 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
4421 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00004422
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004423- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
4424 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
4425 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
4426 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00004427
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004428- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004429 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
4430 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004431 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
4432 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
4433 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004435- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
4436 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004437
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004438Extension Modules
4439-----------------
4440
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004441- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00004442
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00004443- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
4444
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00004445- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
4446
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004447- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00004448
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004449- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
4450 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00004451
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004452- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
4453 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00004454
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004455- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
4456 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00004457
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00004458- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
4459
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00004460- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
4461
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004462- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
4463 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004464
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00004465- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
4466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004467- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
4468 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00004469
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00004470- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
4471
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004472- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
4473 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00004474
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004475- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00004476 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
4477 parameter.
4478
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004479- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
4480 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
4481 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
4482 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00004483
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004484- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
4485 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00004486
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004487- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
4488 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00004489
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004490- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
4491 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
4492 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00004493
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004494- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
4495 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00004496
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00004497- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
4498
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00004499- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
4500
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004501- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
4502 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
4503 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00004504
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004505- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
4506 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00004507
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00004508- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
4509
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00004510- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
4511
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004512- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
4513 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
4514 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
4515 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00004516
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00004517- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
4518 get_completion_type to readline.
4519
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00004520- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
4521 structure.
4522
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00004523- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4524
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00004525- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
4526
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00004527- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
4528 intended for RECNO databases.
4529
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004530- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004531 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
4532 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
4533 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
4534 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
4535 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
4536 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004537
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00004538- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
4539
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00004540- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
4541
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004542- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
4543 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
4544 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
4545 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
4546 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00004547
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00004548- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
4549 error in spite of a succesful compression.
4550
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00004551- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
4552 of Py_ssize_t.
4553
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00004554- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
4555 fractional times. With unittest.
4556
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004557- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
4558 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
4559 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00004560
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00004561- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
4562
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00004563- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
4564
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00004565- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
4566
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00004567- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
4568
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004569- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
4570 builtin types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00004571
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004572- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
4573 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00004574
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004575- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
4576 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00004577
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00004578- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
4579 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
4580
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004581- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
4582 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
4583 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00004584
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00004585- Speed up function calls into the math module.
4586
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00004587- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
4588 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
4589 does.
4590
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00004591- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
4592
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00004593- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
4594
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00004595- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
4596
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00004597- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
4598
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00004599- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
4600 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
4601
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00004602- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
4603 datetime's strftime function.
4604
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00004605- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
4606
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00004607- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
4608
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004609- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
4610 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00004611
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00004612- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
4613
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004614- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004615 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
4616 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004617
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004618- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
4619 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00004620
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004621- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004622 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
4623 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004624 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
4625 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00004626 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004627 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004628
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004629- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
4630 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
4631 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
4632 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
4633
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00004634- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
4635 were transposed.
4636
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00004637- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
4638 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00004639
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004640- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
4641 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
4642 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004643
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004644- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
4645
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00004646- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
4647
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00004648- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
4649
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00004650- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004651
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00004652- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
4653 databases without a DBEnv.
4654
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00004655- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
4656
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004657Tests
4658-----
4659
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00004660- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00004661
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004662- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
4663 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00004664
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004665- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
4666 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
4667 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00004668
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00004669- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
4670 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00004671
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004672- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
4673 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00004674
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004675- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
4676 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
4677 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00004678
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00004679- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
4680
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004681- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
4682 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
4683 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00004684
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004685- Added some tests for modulefinder.
4686
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00004687- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
4688
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00004689- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
4690 number properly.
4691
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004692- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
4693 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004694
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004695Tools
4696-----
4697
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004698- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
4699 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
4700 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
4701 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00004702
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004703- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
4704 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
4705 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00004706
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00004707- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
4708 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
4709
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004710- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
4711 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004712
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004713- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
4714 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004715
4716- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004717 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
4718 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004719
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004720
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004721Documentation
4722-------------
4723
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004724- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
4725 include new optional delay argument.
4726
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004727- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
4728 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
4729 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004730
4731- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
4732 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
4733
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00004734- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
4735 Python tutorial.
4736
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00004737- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
4738
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004739- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
4740 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00004741
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00004742- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
4743 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
4744
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00004745- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
4746 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
4747
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00004748- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
4749
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00004750- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
4751 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
4752
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00004753- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
4754 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
4755
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00004756- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
4757 docs.
4758
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00004759- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
4760
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00004761- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
4762 string pointed to by its parameter.
4763
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00004764- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
4765
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004766- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004767 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
4768 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
4769 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004770
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004771
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004772Tools/Demos
4773-----------
4774
4775- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004776
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004777- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004778 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
4779 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004780
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004781- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
4782 file not to get reported properly.
4783
4784
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004785Build
4786-----
4787
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004788- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
4789 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
4790 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00004791
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00004792- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
4793 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
4794
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00004795- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
4796
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004797- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004799- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
4800 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
4801 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
4802 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004803
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004804- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
4805 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004806
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00004807- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
4808
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00004809- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
4810 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
4811 without this option!
4812
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00004813- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
4814
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004815- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004816 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
4817 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
4818 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004819
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004820- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
4821 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00004822
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00004823- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
4824
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00004825- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
4826
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004827- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
4828 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00004829
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004830- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
4831 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00004832
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00004833- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
4834 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
4835 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
4836
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00004837- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
4838 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
4839
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00004840- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
4841
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00004842- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
4843
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004844- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
4845 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00004846
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004847- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00004848 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
4849
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004850- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
4851 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00004852
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00004853- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
4854
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004855- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00004856
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00004857- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
4858
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00004859- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
4860
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00004861- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004862
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004863- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
4864 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
4865 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00004866
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004867
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004868C API
4869-----
4870
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004871- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
4872 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
4873 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
4874 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00004875
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004876- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
4877 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
4878 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004879
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004880- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004882- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
4883 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
4884 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004885
4886- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
4887
4888- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
4889 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
4890
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004891- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
4892 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
4893 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
4894 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004895
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004896- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
4897 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004898
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004899- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
4900 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
4901 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004902
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004903- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
4904 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004905
4906- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
4907
4908- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
4909
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004910- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
4911
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004912- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
4913
4914- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
4915 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
4916
4917- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
4918 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
4919
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004920- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
4921 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
4922 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004923
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004924- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
4925 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004926
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004927- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
4928 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00004929
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004930
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004931Windows
4932-------
4933
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004934- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
4935 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
4936 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
4937 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00004938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004939- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
4940 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004941
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00004942- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
4943
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004944
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004945Mac
4946---
4947
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00004948- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4949
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00004950- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4951
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004952- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4953 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
4954 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00004955
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00004956----
4957
4958**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**