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Barry Warsaw6b257f42008-12-05 05:03:06 +00007What's New in Python 2.6.2
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9
10*Release date: XX-XXX-200X*
11
12Core and Builtins
13-----------------
14
Raymond Hettinger9293eb92009-02-24 12:25:32 +000015- xrange() is now registered as a Sequence.
16
Benjamin Peterson53f098c2009-03-18 21:49:29 +000017- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
18 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
19
Eric Smith1718b472009-02-20 14:07:55 +000020- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
21 used when using str.format() with str, unicode, long, int, and
22 float arguments.
23
Raymond Hettinger32596522009-02-18 23:12:48 +000024- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division
25 for ints and longs.
26
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +000027- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
28 parameter was set.
29
Raymond Hettinger24e28722009-02-02 22:44:06 +000030- Issue 1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
31 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
32 zip(), and bytearray().
33
Antoine Pitroua1b22ce2009-01-13 23:25:47 +000034- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
35 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
36 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
37
Georg Brandl686d53e2009-01-14 00:08:09 +000038- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
39
Antoine Pitrou5b0767c2009-01-06 19:00:59 +000040- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
41 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
42 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
43 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
44 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
45
Georg Brandl734373c2009-01-03 21:55:17 +000046- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
47
48- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
49 file with `str' filename on Windows.
50
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +000051- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
52 did not get collected.
53
Nick Coghland4656402008-12-30 01:36:00 +000054- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
55 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
56
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +000057- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
58 directory on POSIX systems.
59
60- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
61 systems.
62
63- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
64 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
65
Georg Brandlef29f862008-12-28 11:55:24 +000066- Issue #4759: fix a segfault for bytearray.translate(x, None).
67
Skip Montanaro6a00c742008-12-23 03:35:04 +000068- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
69 fail.
70
Jeffrey Yasskin69614982008-12-11 05:21:18 +000071- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
72 exceptions.
73
Benjamin Petersonc6e80eb2008-12-21 17:01:26 +000074- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
75 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
76 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
77
Jeffrey Yasskin69614982008-12-11 05:21:18 +000078- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc79c9f762008-12-10 23:56:33 +000079 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
80
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +000081- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
Georg Brandld2094602008-12-05 08:51:30 +000082 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
83 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
84 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
85
Georg Brandlfa71a902008-12-05 09:08:28 +000086- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__
87 instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
88
Antoine Pitrou599db7f2008-12-07 00:07:51 +000089- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
90 which there are buffer exports.
91
Barry Warsaw6b257f42008-12-05 05:03:06 +000092Library
93-------
94
Benjamin Peterson373498f2009-03-22 17:49:21 +000095- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
96 even if an exception occurs.
97
Mark Dickinson71416822009-03-17 18:07:41 +000098- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
99 '>' alignment characters.
100
Antoine Pitroua099d142009-03-14 00:13:36 +0000101- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
102 character.
103
Guilherme Poloc4f54fd2009-03-07 01:51:48 +0000104- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
105 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
106 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
107
108- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
109
Hirokazu Yamamotoec5294f2009-03-05 14:30:13 +0000110- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
111
Hirokazu Yamamoto857c00e2009-03-03 22:55:00 +0000112- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
113
Benjamin Petersona97bed92009-03-02 22:46:11 +0000114- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
115 ready received.
116
Benjamin Petersone392b4f2009-03-02 03:42:39 +0000117- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
118 import guess_extension`` was used.
119
Hirokazu Yamamoto4b27e962009-02-28 12:42:16 +0000120- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
121 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
122
Hirokazu Yamamotoe363fa02009-02-28 11:39:45 +0000123- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
124 overrun.
125
Hirokazu Yamamoto978bacd2009-02-18 15:11:55 +0000126- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
127
128- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
129 The file was resized to wrong size.
130
Vinay Sajip83470422009-02-17 17:47:15 +0000131- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call in logging to
132 help out IronPython.
133
Tarek Ziadé19fe0c82009-02-13 23:02:44 +0000134- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
135 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
136
Mark Dickinsona84f2652009-02-12 18:05:07 +0000137- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
138 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
139 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
140
Thomas Heller07750562009-02-10 18:46:11 +0000141- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
142 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
143
Tarek Ziadé436eb082009-02-10 12:33:42 +0000144- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
145 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
146
Guilherme Polo4bf471f2009-02-09 16:43:02 +0000147- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
148
Vinay Sajip9c786582009-02-08 19:14:41 +0000149- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case.
150 This is a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
151
Guilherme Poloc8a20da2009-02-06 22:52:31 +0000152- Partial fix to issue #1731706: memory leak in Tkapp_Call when calling
153 from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl interpreter.
154 Patch by Robert Hancock.
155
Vinay Sajip9c786582009-02-08 19:14:41 +0000156- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadéf28849a2009-02-05 22:55:00 +0000157 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
158
Guilherme Polob2dbd432009-02-02 21:15:41 +0000159- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
160
Antoine Pitrou4ad77e22009-01-29 20:30:51 +0000161- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
162 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
163 "src.new").
164
Raymond Hettingerc9794482009-01-28 23:14:58 +0000165- Issue 4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for
166 Iterator and MutableSet.
167
Raymond Hettinger8c0cee82009-01-27 10:30:26 +0000168- Issue 5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
169 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
170
Martin v. Löwise8b471c2009-01-24 15:50:00 +0000171- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
172 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
173
Martin v. Löwis3a8071a2009-01-24 14:04:33 +0000174- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
175 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
176
Antoine Pitrou19fec8b2009-01-21 00:56:37 +0000177- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
178 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
179 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
180 traditional 2.x file object.
181
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0293c802009-01-17 16:46:35 +0000182- Issue #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
183 opened with other applications.
184
Raymond Hettinger825758c2009-01-08 05:20:19 +0000185- Issue 4816: itertools.combinations() and itertools.product were raising
186 a ValueError for values of *r* larger than the input iterable. They now
187 correctly return an empty iterator.
188
Raymond Hettinger8f726922009-01-03 09:27:41 +0000189- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
Raymond Hettinger40188782009-01-03 09:24:18 +0000190 cast as floats.
191
Raymond Hettingerd263bd82008-12-31 04:18:44 +0000192- Issue 4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
193 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
194
Martin v. Löwis918ae522008-12-29 16:23:43 +0000195- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
196
Martin v. Löwis659bf292008-12-29 15:53:25 +0000197- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
198
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc360d8cf2008-12-15 22:16:00 +0000199- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
200 handling.
201
Antoine Pitrouf8638a82008-12-14 18:08:37 +0000202- Issue #4574: fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
203 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16)
204 and gets split on a chunk boundary.
205
Nick Coghlan30327242008-12-14 11:30:16 +0000206- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
207 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
208 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
209
210- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
211 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
212 Alexander Belopolsky.
213
214- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
215 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
216 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
217 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
218 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
219 Alexander Belopolsky.
220
221- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
222 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
223 Alexander Belopolsky.
224
Lars Gustäbel696d6ba2008-12-12 14:14:42 +0000225- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
226
Skip Montanarob7387a52008-12-06 17:39:54 +0000227- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
228 libs.
229
Georg Brandlfa71a902008-12-05 09:08:28 +0000230- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
231
Matthias Klosee1e6ed12009-01-10 17:11:11 +0000232- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
233 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
234
Martin v. Löwis3f15ae32008-12-29 18:20:48 +0000235Extension Modules
236-----------------
237
238- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
239
Matthias Klose54fba822009-02-24 11:07:44 +0000240Build
241-----
242
243- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
244
Barry Warsaw6b257f42008-12-05 05:03:06 +0000245
Barry Warsaw3d407dc2008-12-04 02:59:51 +0000246What's New in Python 2.6.1
247==========================
Barry Warsawa5a38c52008-10-02 03:08:34 +0000248
Barry Warsaw3d407dc2008-12-04 02:59:51 +0000249*Release date: 04-Dec-2008*
Barry Warsawa5a38c52008-10-02 03:08:34 +0000250
251Core and Builtins
252-----------------
253
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b458c2008-11-22 20:06:51 +0000254- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
255 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
256 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
257
Benjamin Peterson71ce9e72008-11-21 22:52:21 +0000258- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
259 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
260
Benjamin Peterson866eba92008-11-19 22:05:53 +0000261- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
262 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
263
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc83be3d22008-11-18 22:27:00 +0000264- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the imageop.rgb2rgb8() function.
265
Benjamin Peterson9adae2e2008-11-17 22:44:30 +0000266- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
267
Benjamin Petersoneeed0c72008-11-03 15:18:30 +0000268- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
269
Benjamin Peterson084ce7a2008-10-31 02:26:20 +0000270- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
271 exec statement.
272
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc353ea72008-10-30 21:29:12 +0000273- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
274 method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
275
Benjamin Petersonb74777e2008-10-26 20:59:05 +0000276- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
277 __future__ import didn't work.
278
Hirokazu Yamamoto2c66b7c2008-10-09 18:06:58 +0000279- On windows, os.chdir given unicode was not working if GetCurrentDirectoryW
280 returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful this code path is
281 really executed because I cannot move to such directory on win2k)
282
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc00c94ed2008-10-07 20:40:09 +0000283- Issue #4069: When set.remove(element) is used with a set element, the element
284 is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the eventual
285 KeyError would always report the empty frozenset([]) as the missing key. Now
286 it correctly refers to the initial element.
287
Christian Heimes4d8a6f42008-10-02 19:49:47 +0000288- Fixed C99 style comments in several files. Python is now C89 compatible
Christian Heimesc7f315a2008-10-02 18:39:50 +0000289 again.
290
Barry Warsawa5a38c52008-10-02 03:08:34 +0000291Library
292-------
293
Tarek Ziadéf66326f2009-01-26 17:20:15 +0000294- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
295 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
296
Raymond Hettinger1f4f0812009-02-03 03:44:39 +0000297- Registered Decimal as a numbers.Number so that isinstance(d, Number) works.
Raymond Hettinger45fd4762009-02-03 03:42:07 +0000298
Mark Dickinson3df16922009-01-24 21:30:14 +0000299- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
300 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
301
Mark Dickinsonc95c6f12009-01-04 21:30:17 +0000302- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
303
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +0000304- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé653cb622009-01-04 00:07:14 +0000305 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
306
Mark Dickinsonfd6032d2009-01-02 23:16:51 +0000307- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
308 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
309
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +0000310- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
311 the function is not a generator.
312
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +0000313- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
314 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadée4ea6bc2008-12-30 23:06:46 +0000315
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +0000316 - Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
317 works as expected in the interactive environment.
318
319- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
320 Gabriel Genellina.
321
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +0000322- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé0edab542008-12-29 22:36:22 +0000323 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
324
Tarek Ziadéba486082008-12-27 13:28:42 +0000325- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
326
Benjamin Peterson828a7062008-12-27 17:05:29 +0000327- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
328
329- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
330 handling.
331
Benjamin Petersonc6e80eb2008-12-21 17:01:26 +0000332- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
333 when given an unicode string.
334
335- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
336
Mark Dickinson7c62f892008-12-11 09:17:40 +0000337- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
338 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
339 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
340
Benjamin Petersonc6e80eb2008-12-21 17:01:26 +0000341- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the
342 --dry-run option.
343
344- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
345 libs.
346
Georg Brandlf3a0b862008-12-07 14:47:12 +0000347- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
348 statements.
349
350- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
351 not a malformed option.
352
353- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
354 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
355
Fred Drake0c7dfa32008-12-04 19:01:28 +0000356- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
357 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
358 Content-Disposition headers.
359
Christian Heimes268be912008-11-28 11:03:48 +0000360- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
361 exception.
362
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc42491ce2008-11-21 22:08:14 +0000363- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if
364 the ctypes module is not present.
365
Martin v. Löwisfc1e0ef2008-11-19 09:11:49 +0000366- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
367
Hirokazu Yamamotob2d81422008-11-03 18:10:24 +0000368- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
369 and then remove it.
370
Thomas Heller68daeb02008-10-30 20:29:54 +0000371- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
372
Benjamin Petersonaf956f12008-10-22 21:19:41 +0000373- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
374 debugging.
375
Benjamin Peterson3e808612008-10-21 22:28:54 +0000376- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
377 inspect.getargvalues.
378
Georg Brandl4aef7032008-11-07 08:56:27 +0000379- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
380
Martin v. Löwis74013d62008-10-06 15:17:35 +0000381- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
382 to claiming it is Mature.
383
Alexandre Vassalotti966322f2008-12-27 07:16:40 +0000384- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
385 when protocol 0 is used.
386
Georg Brandl734373c2009-01-03 21:55:17 +0000387- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
388
389- Issue #1737832 : plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
390 module.
391
392- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process
393 creates one of the needed subdirectories.
394
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +0000395Tools/Demos
396-----------
397
398- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
399
Brett Cannon7e17a762008-10-06 22:47:18 +0000400Build
401-----
402
Martin v. Löwisa2a21ee2009-02-10 13:17:53 +0000403- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
404
Martin v. Löwis8bcbbb42009-02-02 14:24:18 +0000405- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
406
Georg Brandl686d53e2009-01-14 00:08:09 +0000407- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
408
Georg Brandl734373c2009-01-03 21:55:17 +0000409- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
410
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +0000411- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
412
Martin v. Löwis2b0b0692008-11-30 11:09:53 +0000413- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
414
Martin v. Löwis45a276c2008-11-19 13:54:01 +0000415- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
416
Martin v. Löwis49ae6122008-11-07 18:54:47 +0000417- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
418
Martin v. Löwise55ab5e2008-11-06 17:29:54 +0000419- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
420
Martin v. Löwis3f3ccbe2008-10-17 13:43:58 +0000421- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
422
Martin v. Löwisa6474662008-10-13 11:28:58 +0000423- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
424
Brett Cannon7e17a762008-10-06 22:47:18 +0000425- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
426
Martin v. Löwis7f08c1f2008-11-04 20:43:31 +0000427- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
428
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc38e46fc2008-10-14 22:00:06 +0000429C-API
430-----
431
Benjamin Peterson828a7062008-12-27 17:05:29 +0000432- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
433
Benjamin Petersonc6e80eb2008-12-21 17:01:26 +0000434- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
435 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
436
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc38e46fc2008-10-14 22:00:06 +0000437- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
438 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
439
Benjamin Peterson9e233a52008-11-24 04:19:49 +0000440Extension Modules
441-----------------
442
Mark Dickinson17d83f32009-01-15 15:25:51 +0000443- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
444
Martin v. Löwis8798ac42009-01-11 09:28:08 +0000445- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
446
Georg Brandl734373c2009-01-03 21:55:17 +0000447- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
448
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +0000449- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
450
451- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
452
Mark Dickinson717d5d02008-12-11 21:59:08 +0000453- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
454 OpenBSD.
455
Martin v. Löwis1d8592b2008-12-01 04:49:40 +0000456- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
457
Benjamin Peterson9e233a52008-11-24 04:19:49 +0000458- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
459
Barry Warsawa5a38c52008-10-02 03:08:34 +0000460
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000461What's New in Python 2.6 final
462==============================
463
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +0000464*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000465
466Core and Builtins
467-----------------
468
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +0000469- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
470 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
471
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +0000472- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
473 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
474
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +0000475- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
476
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000477Library
478-------
479
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +0000480- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
481 true singleton object.
482
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +0000483- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
484 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
485 into a float.
486
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +0000487- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
488
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +0000489- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
490 sizes.
491
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +0000492- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
493
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +0000494- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
495 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
496
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +0000497Build
498-----
499
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +0000500- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
501 installer.
502
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +0000503- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
504
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000505
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000506What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
507=============================================
508
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +0000509*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000510
511Core and Builtins
512-----------------
513
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +0000514Extension Modules
515-----------------
516
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +0000517- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
518 segfault as a result.
519
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +0000520- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
521 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000522
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +0000523Tools/Demos
524-----------
525
526- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Misc/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
527 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
528 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
529 are caught and silenced.
530
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +0000531Build
532-----
533
534- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
535 C runtime in the Windows installer.
536
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000537
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +0000538What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
539=============================================
540
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +0000541*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +0000542
543Core and Builtins
544-----------------
545
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +0000546- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
547
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +0000548- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
549 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
550 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
551 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
552 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
553 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
554 64bit values.
555
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +0000556- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
557 error.
558
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +0000559- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
560 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
561 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
562 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
563
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +0000564- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
565 a unicode argument.
566
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +0000567- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
568
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +0000569- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +0000570 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +0000571 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
572
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +0000573- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +0000574 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
575 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
576 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
577 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
578 type object.
579
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +0000580- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
581
582- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
583
584- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
585
586- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
587
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +0000588- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
589 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
590
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +0000591- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
592 ``__delslice__``.
593
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +0000594- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
595 library targets in the Makefile.
596
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +0000597- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
598 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
599 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
600
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +0000601C-API
602-----
603
604- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
605
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +0000606Library
607-------
608
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +0000609- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
610 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
611
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +0000612- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
613
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +0000614- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
615
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +0000616- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
617 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
618 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
619
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +0000620- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
621
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +0000622- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +0000623 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
624
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +0000625- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
626
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +0000627- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
628
629- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +0000630
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +0000631- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
632 its symbolic link.
633
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +0000634- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
635
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +0000636- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
637 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
638 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
639
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +0000640- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
641 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
642
643- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +0000644
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +0000645- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
646 path to the Python binary.
647
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +0000648- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
649 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
650 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
651 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
652
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +0000653- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
654
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +0000655- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
656
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +0000657- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
658
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +0000659- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
660
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +0000661- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
662 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +0000663
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +0000664- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
665 non-integer floating point number.
666
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +0000667- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +0000668 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
669
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +0000670Extension Modules
671-----------------
672
Benjamin Peterson7fd60682009-03-13 20:48:10 +0000673- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
674 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
675
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +0000676- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
677 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
678 without limit.
679
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +0000680- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
681 exploitation of poor argument checking.
682
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +0000683- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
684
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +0000685- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
686 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
687
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +0000688- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
689 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
690 threads/processes.
691
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +0000692Tests
693-----
694
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +0000695- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
696 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
697 that expected warning messages are being reported.
698
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +0000699- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
700
701- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +0000702
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +0000703Build
704-----
705
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +0000706- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
707
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +0000708- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
709 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
710
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +0000711- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
712
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +0000713- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +0000714 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +0000715
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +0000716
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000717What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
718================================
719
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +0000720*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000721
722Core and Builtins
723-----------------
724
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +0000725- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
726 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
727 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
728 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
729 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
730 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
731 default.
732
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +0000733- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
734 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
735
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +0000736- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
737 value again.
738
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +0000739- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
740 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
741 and introducing s*.
742
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +0000743- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
744 object was stored in the freelist.
745
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +0000746- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
747 ValueError consistently across platforms.
748
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +0000749- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
750 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
751 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
752
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +0000753- Apply security patches from Apple.
754
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +0000755- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
756 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
757
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +0000758- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
759 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
760
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +0000761- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
762 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
763 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
764
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +0000765- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
766 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
767 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
768 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
769 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
770 failed have been fixed.
771
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000772Library
773-------
774
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +0000775- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
776
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +0000777- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
778 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
779
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +0000780- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
781 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
782 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
783
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +0000784- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
785 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
786 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
787 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
788 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
789 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
790
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +0000791- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
792 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
793
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +0000794- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
795
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +0000796- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
797
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +0000798- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
799
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +0000800- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
801 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
802
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +0000803- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occured os.rename()
804 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
805
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +0000806- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
807 in a redirect.
808
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +0000809- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +0000810 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +0000811
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +0000812- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
813 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
814
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +0000815- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
816 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
817 regular expression.
818
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +0000819- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
820 thread-safe.
821
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +0000822- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
823 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
824 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
825
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +0000826- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
827
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +0000828- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
829 menu entries were not deleted.
830
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +0000831- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
832 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
833
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +0000834- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
835 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
836
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +0000837- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
838 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
839 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
840
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +0000841- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
842 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
843 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
844
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +0000845- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
846 the reload() built-in has been removed.
847
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +0000848- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +0000849 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +0000850 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
851 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
852 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
853 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
854 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +0000855
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +0000856- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
857 raised an AttributeError.
858
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +0000859- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +0000860 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
861 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +0000862
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +0000863- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
864 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
865
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +0000866- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
867
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +0000868- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
869 on a closed shelf.
870
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +0000871- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
872
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000873- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
874
875- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
876 invalid arguments.
877
878- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
879 with None arguments.
880
881- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
882 configuration files.
883
884- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
885
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +0000886- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
887 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
888 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
889
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +0000890- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
891 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
892 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
893
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +0000894Build
895-----
896
897- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
898
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +0000899Documentation
900-------------
901
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +0000902- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
903 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
904
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +0000905- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
906 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
907 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
908 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
909
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000910
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +0000911What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
912================================
913
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000914*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
915
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +0000916Core and Builtins
917-----------------
918
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +0000919- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
920 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
921 an integer using operator.index().
922
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +0000923- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
924 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
925
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +0000926- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
927 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
928
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +0000929- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
930 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
931 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
932
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +0000933- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
934 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
935 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
936 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
937 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
938 level.
939
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +0000940- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
941 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
942 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
943 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
944 all imports from that module to fail.
945
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +0000946- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
947 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
948 new-style classes.
949
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +0000950- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
951 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
952 another file in sys.stdout.
953
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +0000954- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
955 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
956 another thread's dictionary.
957
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +0000958- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
959 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
960 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
961 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
962 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
963 10, -1).
964
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +0000965- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
966 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
967 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +0000968
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +0000969- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
970 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
971 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +0000972
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +0000973Library
974-------
975
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +0000976- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
977 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
978 error when they failed.
979
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +0000980- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
981
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +0000982- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
983
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +0000984- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
985
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +0000986- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
987
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +0000988- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
989 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
990
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +0000991- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +0000992
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +0000993- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
994 a valid dlerror() message.
995
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +0000996- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
997 incomplete structure was created.
998
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +0000999- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
1000
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00001001- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
1002
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00001003- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00001004
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00001005- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
1006 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00001007 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00001008 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
1009 merged into trunk.
1010
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00001011- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
1012
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00001013- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
1014
1015- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
1016
1017- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
1018 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00001019 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00001020
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00001021- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00001022 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00001023
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00001024- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
1025 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
1026
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00001027- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
1028 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
1029
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00001030- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
1031 interrupted by a signal.
1032
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00001033- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00001034 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
1035 Prevents a deadlock.
1036
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00001037- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
1038 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
1039 default https port (443).
1040
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00001041- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
1042 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
1043 if the new process uses the threading module.
1044
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00001045Tests
1046-----
1047
1048- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
1049 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
1050 have been added to test_warnings.
1051
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00001052Build
1053-----
1054
1055- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
1056
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00001057
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00001058Documentation
1059-------------
1060
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00001061- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00001062 Python 3.0.
1063
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00001064- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
1065
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00001066- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
1067 Python 3.0.
1068
1069- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
1070 Python 3.0.
1071
1072
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001073What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
1074================================
1075
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00001076*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001077
1078Core and Builtins
1079-----------------
1080
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00001081- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
1082 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
1083 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
1084 bus error.
1085
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00001086- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
1087 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
1088
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00001089- Add future_builtins.ascii().
1090
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00001091- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00001092 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00001093
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00001094- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
1095
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00001096- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
1097
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00001098- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
1099
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00001100- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
1101
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001102- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
1103 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
1104 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
1105 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00001106
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00001107- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
1108
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001109- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
1110 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00001111
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001112- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
1113 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00001114
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001115- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
1116 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
1117 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00001118
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00001119- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
1120 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
1121 can't be triggered from Python code.
1122
1123
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001124Extension Modules
1125-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00001126- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001127
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00001128- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
1129
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00001130- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00001131
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00001132- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
1133 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
1134
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00001135- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
1136 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
1137
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00001138- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
1139 weakref.proxy.
1140
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001141- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
1142 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00001143
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00001144- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00001145
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00001146- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00001147 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
1148 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00001149
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001150- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
1151 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
1152 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00001153
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00001154- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
1155 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
1156 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
1157
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001158- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00001159
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00001160- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00001161
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001162Library
1163-------
1164
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00001165- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
1166 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
1167
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00001168- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
1169
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00001170- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
1171 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
1172 sense).
1173
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00001174- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
1175
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00001176- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
1177 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
1178 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
1179 the patch.
1180
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00001181- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
1182 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
1183 the patch).
1184
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00001185- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
1186 os.uname exists.
1187
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00001188- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
1189
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00001190- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
1191
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00001192- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
1193 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
1194 pointer-like object.
1195
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00001196- Added the ast module.
1197
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001198- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00001199
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00001200- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
1201 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
1202
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00001203- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
1204 to errno.
1205
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001206- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00001207
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00001208- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00001209 msilib.Record objects.
1210
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00001211- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
1212 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
1213
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00001214- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
1215 in Python 3.0.
1216
1217- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
1218 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00001219
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00001220- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
1221 False boolean value now.
1222
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00001223- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
1224 transfers.
1225
1226- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
1227 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00001228
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00001229- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
1230 when the TarFile is closed.
1231
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00001232- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
1233 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
1234 an exception.
1235
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00001236- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
1237 otherwise be produced.
1238
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00001239- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
1240 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
1241
1242- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
1243 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
1244
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00001245- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
1246 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
1247 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
1248
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00001249- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
1250
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001251- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00001252 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
1253 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
1254 'm' or 'c'.
1255
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00001256- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1257
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001258- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
1259 removal in Python 3.0.
1260
1261- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1262 3.0.
1263
1264- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1265 3.0.
1266
1267- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1268 3.0.
1269
1270- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00001271 Python 3.0.
1272
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00001273- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
1274 Python 3.0.
1275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001276- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1277 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00001278
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001279- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1280 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00001281
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001282- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1283 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00001284
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001285- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1286 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00001287
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001288- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00001289 Python 3.0.
1290
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001291- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1292 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00001293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001294- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1295 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00001296
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001297- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1298 3.0.
1299
1300- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
1301 removal in Python 3.0.
1302
1303- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1304 3.0.
1305
1306- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1307 3.0.
1308
1309- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
1310 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00001311
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001312- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
1313 removal in Python 3.0.
1314
1315- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00001316 Python 3.0.
1317
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001318- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1319 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00001320
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00001321- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
1322 Python 3.0.
1323
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00001324- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
1325 Python 3.0.
1326
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001327- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00001328
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00001329- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1330
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00001331- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1332
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00001333- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
1334
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00001335- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1336
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001337- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
1338 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
1339 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00001340
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001341- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
1342 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00001343
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00001344- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1345
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001346- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
1347 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00001348
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00001349- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1350
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00001351- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1352
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00001353- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1354
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00001355- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1356
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00001357- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1358
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001359- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
1360 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00001361
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00001362- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1363
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00001364- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1365
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00001366- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
1367 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
1368 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
1369 OverflowError.
1370
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00001371- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1372
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001373- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
1374 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00001375
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00001376- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1377
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00001378- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1379
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00001380- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1381
1382- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00001383
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001384- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1385
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00001386- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
1387
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00001388- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
1389
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00001390- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00001391
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001392- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
1393 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00001394
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00001395- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00001396 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
1397 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
1398 of Python.
1399
1400- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
1401 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
1402
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00001403- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
1404 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00001405
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001406Build
1407-----
1408
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00001409- 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 +00001410
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00001411- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
1412
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00001413- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
1414
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00001415- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
1416 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001417 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00001418
1419 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
1420
1421 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
1422
1423 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
1424
1425 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
1426
1427 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
1428
1429 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
1430
1431
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00001432C API
1433-----
1434
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00001435- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
1436
1437- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00001438
1439- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
1440 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
1441 PyString names.
1442
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00001443
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001444What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00001445=================================
1446
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00001447*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00001448
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00001449Core and builtins
1450-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00001451
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00001452- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
1453
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001454- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
1455 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00001456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001457- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
1458 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00001459
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001460- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00001461
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00001462Extension Modules
1463-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001464
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001465- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
1466 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00001467
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00001468- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
1469
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001470- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
1471 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00001472
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001473- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
1474 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00001475
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001476- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
1477 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00001478
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001479- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
1480 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
1481 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
1482 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
1483 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
1484 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
1485 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
1486 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00001487
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001488Library
1489-------
1490
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00001491- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1492
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001493- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
1494 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00001495
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00001496- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
1497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001498- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
1499 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00001500
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00001501- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
1502 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
1503 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
1504
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00001505- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001506 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00001507
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00001508- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00001509 reference to themselves.
1510
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00001511- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
1512 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
1513 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00001514
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00001515- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
1516 1900-01-01.
1517
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00001518- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
1519 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
1520
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00001521- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
1522 now implemented in C for better performance.
1523
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001524- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
1525 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
1526 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00001527
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001528- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00001529 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
1530 build documentation for more information.
1531
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00001532- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
1533 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
1534 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
1535 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
1536
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00001537- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
1538 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
1539 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
1540
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001541- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
1542 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
1543 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
1544 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00001545
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001546Tests
1547-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00001548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001549- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
1550 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
1551 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
1552 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
1553 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
1554 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
1555 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
1556 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
1557 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
1558 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
1559 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
1560 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
1561 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
1562 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
1563 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
1564 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
1565 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
1566 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
1567 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
1568 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
1569
1570 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
1571 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
1572 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
1573 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
1574 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
1575 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
1576 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
1577 access to the underlying socket used.
1578
1579 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
1580 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
1581 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00001582
1583 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001584 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00001585 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
1586 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
1587
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001588 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
1589 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001590
1591Build
1592-----
1593
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00001594- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
1595
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00001596- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
1597 gcc is used as compiler.
1598
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00001599- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001600 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00001601
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001602C API
1603-----
1604
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001605- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
1606 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
1607 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
1608 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00001609
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00001610- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00001611
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001612
1613What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
1614=================================
1615
1616*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
1617
1618Core and builtins
1619-----------------
1620
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001621- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
1622 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
1623 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00001624
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00001625- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
1626 cannot be executed.
1627
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00001628- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
1629 reference on the outer class name.
1630
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00001631- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001632 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00001633
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001634- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
1635 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00001636
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00001637- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00001638
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00001639- Added backport of bytearray type.
1640
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00001641- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
1642
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00001643- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001644 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
1645 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
1646 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
1647 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
1648 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00001649
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00001650- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
1651
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001652- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
1653 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00001654
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00001655- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00001656
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00001657- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
1658
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001659- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
1660 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00001661
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001662- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
1663 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00001664
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001665- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00001666 exception instances.
1667
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00001668- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001669 doesn't derive from BaseException.
1670
1671- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
1672 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00001673
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00001674- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
1675 memory usage in some circumstances.
1676
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001677- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
1678 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
1679 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00001680
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00001681- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
1682
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001683- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00001684 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
1685 longer passed.
1686
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00001687- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
1688
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001689- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
1690 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
1691 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00001692
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001693- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
1694 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00001695
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00001696- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
1697
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00001698Extension Modules
1699-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00001700
1701- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
1702
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00001703Library
1704-------
1705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001706- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
1707 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001709- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
1710 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
1711 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001712
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001713- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
1714 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001715
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001716- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
1717 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
1718 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00001719
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001720- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
1721 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00001722
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00001723- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
1724
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00001725- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
1726 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
1727 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
1728
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00001729- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
1730
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00001731- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
1732 advertised in the docs.
1733
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001734- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00001735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001736- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00001737
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001738- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
1739 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00001740
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00001741- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
1742 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
1743
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001744- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
1745 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00001746 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
1747 information as well.
1748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001749- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
1750 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00001751
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001752- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
1753 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00001754
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001755- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
1756 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
1757 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00001758
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00001759- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
1760 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
1761 strftime.
1762
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00001763- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001764 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
1765 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00001766
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00001767- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
1768 correctly under win32
1769
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001770- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00001771
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00001772- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001773 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
1774 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
1775 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00001776
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00001777- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
1778 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
1779
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001780- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
1781 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00001782
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001783- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
1784 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
1785 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00001786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001787- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00001788 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
1789
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00001790- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
1791 from 't' to '?'.
1792
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00001793- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
1794 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001795 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
1796 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
1797 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00001798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001799- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
1800 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00001801
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00001802Tests
1803-----
1804
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001805- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
1806 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00001807
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00001808- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
1809
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00001810- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
1811
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00001812- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
1813
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00001814- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
1815
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001816- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
1817 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00001818
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00001819- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
1820
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00001821- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
1822
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001823- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
1824 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00001825
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00001826- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
1827
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00001828- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
1829
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00001830- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
1831 permission to create files in the root directory.
1832
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00001833Build
1834-----
1835
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00001836- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
1837
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001838- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
1839 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00001840
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00001841- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00001842
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00001843C API
1844-----
1845
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001846- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001847 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
1848
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00001849
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00001850What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
1851=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00001852
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00001853*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001854
1855Core and builtins
1856-----------------
1857
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00001858- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00001859 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00001860
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00001861- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
1862
1863- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00001864
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001865- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00001866 issue 215555 for a discussion.
1867
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00001868- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
1869 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
1870 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
1871 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
1872 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
1873 module is:
1874 from future_builtins import hex, oct
1875
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00001876- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
1877 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
1878 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
1879 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
1880 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
1881 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
1882
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00001883- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
1884 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
1885 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
1886 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
1887 PyObject_Format().
1888
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001889- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
1890 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
1891 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00001892
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001893- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001894 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
1895 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00001896
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001897- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
1898 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00001899
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001900- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
1901 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
1902 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00001903
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001904- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
1905 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
1906 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00001907
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00001908- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
1909 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
1910
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001911- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
1912 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00001913
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001914- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
1915 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00001916 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
1917
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001918- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
1919 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
1920 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00001921
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001922- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
1923 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00001924
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001925- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
1926 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00001927
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001928- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
1929 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00001930
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001931- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
1932 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00001933
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001934- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
1935 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
1936 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00001937
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001938- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
1939 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
1940 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
1941 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00001942
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00001943- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
1944 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
1945 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
1946
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00001947- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00001948 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
1949 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
1950
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001951- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00001952 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
1953 support.
1954
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00001955- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
1956 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
1957
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00001958- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
1959
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001960- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00001961 added.
1962
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00001963- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
1964 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
1965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001966- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
1967 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00001968
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001969- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
1970 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
1971 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00001972
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001973- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
1974 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00001975
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00001976- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
1977 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00001978
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00001979- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
1980
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001981- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
1982 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
1983 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00001984
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001985- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
1986 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
1987 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00001988
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001989- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00001990
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001991- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
1992 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00001993
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00001994- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001995 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
1996 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00001997
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001998- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
1999 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
2000 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
2001 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00002002
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002003- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00002004
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002005- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
2006 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00002007
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002008- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
2009 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00002010
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00002011- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00002012 SystemError.
2013
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00002014- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
2015 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
2016 __package__ attribute.
2017
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002018- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
2019 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
2020 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00002021
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00002022- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
2023
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002024- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00002025 attribute of an empty cell object.
2026
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002027- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
2028 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00002029
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002030- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
2031 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
2032 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
2033 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00002034
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002035- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
2036 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
2037 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00002038
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00002039- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
2040
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00002041- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
2042
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00002043- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
2044
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002045- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
2046 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
2047 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00002048
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002049- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
2050 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
2051 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
2052 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
2053 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
2054 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00002055
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002056- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
2057 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
2058 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
2059 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
2060 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00002061
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002062- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
2063 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
2064 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00002065
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002066- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
2067 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00002068
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00002069- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002070 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
2071 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
2072 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
2073 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
2074 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00002075
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002076- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
2077 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00002078
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00002079- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
2080 with %G.
2081
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002082- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
2083 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00002084
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002085- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00002086
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002087- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00002088
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00002089- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002090 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
2091 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00002092
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00002093- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
2094 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
2095
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00002096- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
2097 calls.
2098
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00002099- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002100 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
2101 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00002102
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00002103- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
2104
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002105- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00002106 inherited from a builtin base.
2107
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00002108- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00002109 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
2110
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00002111- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
2112
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00002113- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
2114 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
2115 remaining characters.
2116
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00002117- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
2118 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
2119
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00002120- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
2121
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00002122- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
2123 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
2124 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
2125 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
2126 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00002127 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
2128 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00002129
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002130- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
2131 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
2132 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
2133 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
2134 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00002135
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002136- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
2137 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
2138 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00002139
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002140- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
2141 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00002142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002143- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
2144 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
2145 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00002146
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002147- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
2148 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00002149
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00002150- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
2151
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00002152- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
2153 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
2154
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00002155- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002156 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
2157 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
2158 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00002159
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00002160- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
2161 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
2162
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002163- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
2164 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00002165
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002166- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
2167 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
2168 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00002169
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00002170- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002171 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
2172 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00002173
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00002174- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
2175 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002176 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
2177 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00002178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002179- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
2180 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00002181
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002182- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
2183 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00002184
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00002185- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
2186 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
2187
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002188- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
2189 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
2190 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00002191
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002192- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
2193 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00002194
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002195- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
2196 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00002197
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002198- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
2199 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
2200 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00002201
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00002202- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
2203 frame's thread state.
2204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002205- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
2206 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00002207
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002208- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
2209 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00002210
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002211- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
2212 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00002213
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002214- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
2215 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00002216
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002217- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
2218 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00002219
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00002220- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
2221
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00002222- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
2223
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00002224- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
2225
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002226- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
2227 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00002228
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002229- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00002230
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00002231- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
2232 again, no longer the posix error code.
2233
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00002234- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
2235 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
2236
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002237- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
2238 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00002239
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00002240- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
2241 embedded in the string to convert.
2242
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00002243- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
2244 recognized and rejected.
2245
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00002246- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
2247
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00002248- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
2249 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
2250 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00002251
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00002252- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
2253 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
2254
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00002255- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002256 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
2257 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00002258
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002259- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
2260 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
2261 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00002262
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00002263- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
2264
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00002265- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
2266
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00002267- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
2268
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002269- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
2270 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
2271 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00002272
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00002273- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
2274 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
2275 'exceptions'.
2276
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00002277- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
2278 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
2279
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00002280- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
2281 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
2282
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00002283- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
2284
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00002285- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
2286
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00002287- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
2288 head is the original string if sep was not found.
2289
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00002290- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002291 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
2292 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
2293 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00002294
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002295- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00002296
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002297- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
2298 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00002299
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00002300- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
2301 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00002302
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002303- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00002304 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
2305 it actually exited.
2306
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002307
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00002308Library
2309-------
2310
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002311- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00002312
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00002313- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
2314
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00002315- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
2316
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002317- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
2318 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00002319
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002320- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00002321
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002322- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
2323 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
2324 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00002325
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002326- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
2327 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00002328
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002329- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00002330 (ignore-case)
2331
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00002332- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
2333 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
2334 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
2335 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
2336
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002337- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
2338 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00002339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002340- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
2341 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00002342
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00002343- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
2344 pickled.
2345
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00002346- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
2347 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
2348
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00002349- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
2350 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
2351 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
2352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002353- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
2354 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00002355
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002356- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
2357 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
2358 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00002359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002360- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
2361 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00002362
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002363- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
2364 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00002365
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002366- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
2367 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
2368 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
2369 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00002370
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002371- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
2372 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00002373 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
2374
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00002375- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
2376
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002377- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
2378 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00002379
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002380- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00002381
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002382- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
2383 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002385- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
2386 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002387
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002388- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
2389 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002391- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
2392 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002394- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
2395 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
2396 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00002397
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002398- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
2399 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00002400
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002401- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
2402 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00002403
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002404- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
2405 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00002406
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002407- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
2408 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00002409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002410- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
2411 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00002412
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002413- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
2414 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00002415
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00002416- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
2417 with extended local headers.
2418
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002419- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
2420 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00002421
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002422- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00002423 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
2424 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
2425
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002426- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
2427 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00002428
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002429- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
2430 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00002431
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002432- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
2433 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00002434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002435- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
2436 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00002437
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002438- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
2439 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00002440
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00002441- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002442 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00002443 Textbox.gather().
2444
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00002445- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
2446 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00002447 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
2448 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00002449
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00002450- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
2451 that array types do not live longer than needed.
2452
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00002453- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
2454 and when creating a recursive instance.
2455
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002456- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
2457 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
2458 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00002459
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00002460- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
2461 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
2462 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
2463
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002464- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
2465 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00002466
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002467- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00002468 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
2469
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002470- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00002471 good for long regular expression matches.
2472
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002473- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
2474 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00002475
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00002476- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
2477 the current context.
2478
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00002479- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
2480 zipfile module.
2481
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00002482- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
2483
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002484- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
2485 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00002486
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00002487- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
2488
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00002489- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
2490
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002491- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
2492 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00002493
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00002494- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
2495
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002496- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
2497 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00002498
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002499- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
2500 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00002501
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00002502- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
2503
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00002504- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
2505 Tcl objects.
2506
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00002507- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
2508
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002509- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
2510 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
2511 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
2512 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00002513
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002514- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
2515 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00002516
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002517- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
2518 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00002519
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002520- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
2521 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00002522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002523- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
2524 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00002525
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00002526- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
2527 method used universal newlines.
2528
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00002529- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
2530 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
2531
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00002532- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
2533 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
2534
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00002535- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
2536 files are updated.
2537
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002538- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
2539 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00002540
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00002541- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
2542 configured with --with-system-ffi.
2543
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00002544- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00002545 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00002546
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00002547- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
2548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002549- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
2550 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
2551 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00002552
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002553- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
2554 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00002555
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00002556- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00002557
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00002558- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
2559
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002560- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
2561 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00002562
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00002563- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
2564 to be orderable to properly represent them.
2565
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00002566- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
2567
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00002568- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
2569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002570- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
2571 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
2572 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00002573
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00002574- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
2575 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
2576
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002577- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
2578 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00002579
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002580- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
2581 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00002582
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00002583- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
2584
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00002585- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
2586
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00002587- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
2588 syllables.
2589
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002590- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
2591 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00002592
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00002593- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
2594
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00002595- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
2596 represent the result in a single character.
2597
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00002598- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
2599
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00002600- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
2601
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00002602- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
2603 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
2604 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
2605
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00002606- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
2607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002608- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
2609 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00002610
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002611- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
2612 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
2613 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00002614
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002615- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
2616 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
2617 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00002618
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00002619- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002620 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
2621 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00002622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002623- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
2624 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00002625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002626- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
2627 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00002628
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00002629- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
2630
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00002631- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
2632
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002633- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
2634 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
2635 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00002636
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00002637- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
2638
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00002639- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
2640
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00002641- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
2642 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
2643
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00002644- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
2645
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00002646- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
2647
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00002648- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
2649
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002650- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
2651 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00002652
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002653- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
2654 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00002655
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00002656- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
2657 the directories).
2658
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00002659- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
2660 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
2661 injecting HTML into the error page.
2662
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002663- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
2664 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00002665
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002666- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
2667 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00002668
2669- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
2670
2671- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
2672
2673- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
2674 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
2675 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
2676
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00002677- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
2678 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
2679 ".cpp" too.
2680
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00002681- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002682 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
2683 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
2684 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00002685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002686- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
2687 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00002688
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002689- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
2690 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00002691
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00002692- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
2693 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
2694 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
2695 closes patch #723312.
2696
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00002697- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
2698 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00002699 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00002700
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00002701- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
2702
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00002703- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
2704 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
2705
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00002706- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
2707
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002708- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
2709 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00002710 directories.
2711
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00002712- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
2713 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
2714 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
2715 trying Mozilla variants.
2716
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00002717- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
2718
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00002719- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
2720 initialization failed.
2721
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00002722- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002723 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
2724 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00002725
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002726- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
2727 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
2728 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00002729
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002730- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
2731 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00002732 correctly now.
2733
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00002734- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
2735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002736- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
2737 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00002738
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00002739- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
2740
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002741- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
2742 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
2743 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00002744
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002745- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
2746 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
2747 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
2748 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00002749
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002750- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
2751 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
2752 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00002753
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00002754- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
2755 whitespace while wrapping.
2756
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00002757- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002758 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
2759 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00002760
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002761- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
2762 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
2763 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00002764
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00002765- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
2766 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
2767
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002768- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
2769 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00002770
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00002771- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
2772 concatenation in robotparser.
2773
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00002774- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002775 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
2776 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00002777
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00002778- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
2779 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
2780
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00002781- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
2782
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002783- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
2784 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
2785 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00002786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002787- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
2788 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
2789 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00002790
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002791- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
2792 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00002793 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00002794
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00002795- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
2796 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
2797
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00002798- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
2799 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
2800
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00002801- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
2802 returned string up to the first NUL character.
2803
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00002804- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
2805
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00002806- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
2807
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002808- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
2809 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
2810 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00002811
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00002812- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
2813
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002814- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
2815 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
2816 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
2817 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
2818 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
2819 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00002820
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002821- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
2822 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00002823
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00002824- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
2825 comprehensive test suite for the module.
2826
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00002827- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
2828 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
2829
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002830- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
2831 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
2832 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00002833
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00002834- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00002835 in HTMLParser.
2836
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00002837- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
2838 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
2839
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00002840- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
2841
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00002842- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
2843
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00002844- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
2845
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00002846- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00002847
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00002848- Added itertools.izip_longest().
2849
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002850- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
2851 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00002852
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00002853- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
2854
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00002855- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
2856 doesn't exist.
2857
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00002858- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
2859
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00002860- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
2861
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002862- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00002863
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002864- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
2865 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00002866
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002867- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
2868 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00002869
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002870- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
2871 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00002872
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00002873- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00002874 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00002875
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00002876- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
2877 iso8859_16.
2878
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002879- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
2880 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
2881 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
2882 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00002883
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00002884- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
2885
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00002886- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
2887 directories.
2888
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00002889- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
2890
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002891- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
2892 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00002893
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002894- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00002895 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002896
2897- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00002898 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002899
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00002900- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002901
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002902- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
2903 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00002904
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00002905- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
2906
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00002907- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
2908 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
2909 parameterless foreign function calls work.
2910
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00002911- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
2912
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00002913- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
2914 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
2915 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
2916
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00002917- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
2918 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
2919
2920- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
2921 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
2922
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002923- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
2924 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
2925 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00002926
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002927- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
2928 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00002929
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00002930- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
2931
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002932- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
2933 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00002934
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002935- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
2936 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00002937
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002938- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
2939 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00002940
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00002941- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
2942 separated lists read from logging config files.
2943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002944- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
2945 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
2946 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00002947
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002948- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
2949 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00002950
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00002951- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
2952
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002953- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
2954 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00002955
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00002956- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
2957
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00002958- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
2959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002960- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
2961 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00002962
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00002963- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
2964 regular files.
2965
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00002966- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
2967
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002968- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
2969 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00002970
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002971- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
2972 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00002973
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00002974- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
2975 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
2976
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00002977- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
2978 file name mangling.
2979
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002980- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
2981 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00002982
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00002983- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
2984
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00002985- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00002986 HTTPConnection.request().
2987
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00002988- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
2989 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
2990 objects.
2991
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002992- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
2993 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
2994 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00002995
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002996- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
2997 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
2998 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00002999
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00003000- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00003001
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00003002- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00003003
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00003004- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
3005
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00003006- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00003007 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00003008
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00003009- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
3010
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00003011- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
3012 GNU modes.
3013
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00003014- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
3015 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
3016 opcode.
3017
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00003018- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
3019 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
3020 statement (bug #1586513).
3021
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00003022- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
3023 correctly.
3024
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00003025- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
3026
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003027- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
3028 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00003029
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00003030- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
3031 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
3032 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
3033
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003034- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
3035 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
3036 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00003037
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003038- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
3039 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00003040
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00003041- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
3042
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00003043- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
3044
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003045- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
3046 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00003047
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003048- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
3049 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00003050
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00003051- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
3052 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
3053
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00003054- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
3055 with a slash.
3056
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00003057- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
3058 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
3059
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003060- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data data and
3061 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00003062
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00003063- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
3064 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
3065 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
3066
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003067- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
3068 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00003069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003070- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
3071 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00003072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003073- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
3074 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00003075
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00003076- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
3077
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00003078- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00003079 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00003080
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003081- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
3082 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00003083
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003084- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
3085 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003086
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00003087- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
3088
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003089- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
3090 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00003091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003092- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
3093 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
3094 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00003095
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003096- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
3097 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
3098 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00003099
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003100- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
3101 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
3102 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
3103 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00003104
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003105- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00003106 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
3107 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003108 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
3109 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
3110 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00003111
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003112- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
3113 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00003114
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003115Extension Modules
3116-----------------
3117
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00003118- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00003119
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00003120- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
3121
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00003122- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
3123
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00003124- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00003125
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003126- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
3127 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00003128
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003129- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
3130 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00003131
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003132- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
3133 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00003134
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00003135- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
3136
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00003137- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
3138
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003139- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
3140 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00003141
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00003142- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
3143
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003144- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
3145 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00003146
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00003147- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
3148
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003149- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
3150 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00003151
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003152- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00003153 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
3154 parameter.
3155
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003156- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
3157 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
3158 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
3159 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00003160
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003161- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
3162 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00003163
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003164- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
3165 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00003166
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003167- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
3168 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
3169 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00003170
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003171- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
3172 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00003173
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00003174- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
3175
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00003176- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
3177
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003178- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
3179 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
3180 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00003181
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003182- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
3183 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00003184
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00003185- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
3186
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00003187- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
3188
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003189- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
3190 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
3191 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
3192 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00003193
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00003194- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
3195 get_completion_type to readline.
3196
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00003197- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
3198 structure.
3199
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00003200- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
3201
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00003202- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
3203
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00003204- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
3205 intended for RECNO databases.
3206
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00003207- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003208 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
3209 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
3210 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
3211 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
3212 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
3213 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00003214
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00003215- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
3216
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00003217- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
3218
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003219- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
3220 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
3221 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
3222 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
3223 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00003224
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00003225- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
3226 error in spite of a succesful compression.
3227
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00003228- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
3229 of Py_ssize_t.
3230
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00003231- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
3232 fractional times. With unittest.
3233
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003234- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
3235 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
3236 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00003237
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00003238- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
3239
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00003240- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
3241
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00003242- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
3243
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00003244- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
3245
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003246- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
3247 builtin types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00003248
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003249- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
3250 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00003251
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003252- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
3253 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00003254
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00003255- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
3256 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
3257
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003258- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
3259 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
3260 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00003261
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00003262- Speed up function calls into the math module.
3263
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00003264- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
3265 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
3266 does.
3267
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00003268- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
3269
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00003270- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
3271
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00003272- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
3273
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00003274- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
3275
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00003276- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
3277 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
3278
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00003279- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
3280 datetime's strftime function.
3281
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00003282- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
3283
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00003284- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
3285
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003286- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
3287 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00003288
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00003289- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
3290
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00003291- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003292 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
3293 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00003294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003295- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
3296 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00003297
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00003298- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003299 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
3300 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00003301 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
3302 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00003303 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00003304 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003305
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00003306- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
3307 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
3308 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
3309 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
3310
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00003311- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
3312 were transposed.
3313
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00003314- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
3315 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00003316
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003317- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
3318 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
3319 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00003320
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00003321- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
3322
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00003323- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
3324
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00003325- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
3326
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00003327- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00003328
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00003329- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
3330 databases without a DBEnv.
3331
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00003332- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
3333
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003334Tests
3335-----
3336
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00003337- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00003338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003339- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
3340 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00003341
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003342- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
3343 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
3344 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00003345
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00003346- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
3347 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00003348
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003349- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
3350 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00003351
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003352- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
3353 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
3354 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00003355
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00003356- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
3357
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003358- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
3359 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
3360 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00003361
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00003362- Added some tests for modulefinder.
3363
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00003364- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
3365
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00003366- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
3367 number properly.
3368
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003369- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
3370 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003371
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003372Tools
3373-----
3374
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003375- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
3376 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
3377 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
3378 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00003379
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003380- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
3381 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
3382 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00003383
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00003384- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
3385 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
3386
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003387- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
3388 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003389
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003390- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
3391 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003392
3393- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003394 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
3395 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003396
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003397
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003398Documentation
3399-------------
3400
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003401- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
3402 include new optional delay argument.
3403
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003404- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
3405 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
3406 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003407
3408- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
3409 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
3410
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00003411- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
3412 Python tutorial.
3413
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00003414- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
3415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003416- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
3417 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00003418
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00003419- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
3420 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
3421
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00003422- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
3423 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
3424
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00003425- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
3426
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00003427- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
3428 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
3429
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00003430- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
3431 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
3432
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00003433- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
3434 docs.
3435
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00003436- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
3437
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00003438- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
3439 string pointed to by its parameter.
3440
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00003441- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
3442
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00003443- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003444 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
3445 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
3446 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00003447
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003448
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00003449Tools/Demos
3450-----------
3451
3452- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00003453
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00003454- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003455 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
3456 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00003457
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00003458- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
3459 file not to get reported properly.
3460
3461
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003462Build
3463-----
3464
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003465- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
3466 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
3467 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00003468
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00003469- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
3470 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
3471
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00003472- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
3473
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003474- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003475
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003476- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
3477 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
3478 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
3479 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003480
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003481- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
3482 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003483
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00003484- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
3485
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00003486- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
3487 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
3488 without this option!
3489
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00003490- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
3491
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00003492- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003493 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
3494 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
3495 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00003496
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003497- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
3498 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00003499
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00003500- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
3501
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00003502- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
3503
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003504- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
3505 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00003506
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003507- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
3508 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00003509
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00003510- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
3511 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
3512 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
3513
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00003514- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
3515 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
3516
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00003517- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
3518
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00003519- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
3520
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003521- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
3522 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00003523
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00003524- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00003525 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
3526
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003527- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
3528 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00003529
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00003530- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
3531
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003532- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00003533
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00003534- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
3535
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00003536- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
3537
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00003538- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003539
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003540- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
3541 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
3542 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00003543
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003544
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003545C API
3546-----
3547
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003548- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
3549 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
3550 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
3551 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00003552
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003553- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
3554 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
3555 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00003556
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003557- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00003558
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003559- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
3560 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
3561 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003562
3563- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
3564
3565- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
3566 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
3567
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003568- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
3569 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
3570 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
3571 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003572
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003573- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
3574 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003575
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003576- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
3577 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
3578 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003579
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003580- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
3581 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003582
3583- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
3584
3585- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
3586
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003587- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
3588
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003589- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
3590
3591- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
3592 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
3593
3594- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
3595 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
3596
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003597- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
3598 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
3599 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003600
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003601- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
3602 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003604- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
3605 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00003606
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003607
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00003608Windows
3609-------
3610
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003611- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
3612 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
3613 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
3614 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00003615
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003616- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
3617 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00003618
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00003619- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
3620
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00003621
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003622Mac
3623---
3624
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00003625- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
3626
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00003627- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
3628
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003629- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
3630 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
3631 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00003632
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003633----
3634
3635**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**