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Georg Brandld33a9be2012-07-21 16:48:16 +02001Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002+++++++++++
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Benjamin Peterson988aba32013-05-11 22:36:05 -05004What's New in Python 2.7.6?
5===========================
6
7*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
8
9Core and Builtins
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11
Serhiy Storchakaa9885e92013-08-20 20:08:53 +030012- Issue #13461: Fix a crash in the "replace" error handler on 64-bit platforms.
13 Patch by Yogesh Chaudhari.
14
Serhiy Storchakae822b032013-08-06 16:56:26 +030015- Issue #15866: The xmlcharrefreplace error handler no more produces two XML
16 entities for a non-BMP character on narrow build.
17
Serhiy Storchakaba908c72013-06-23 20:22:09 +030018- Issue #18184: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyUnicode_FromFormatV() now raise
19 OverflowError when an argument of %c format is out of range.
20
Victor Stinner76038812013-06-23 14:56:57 +020021- Issue #18137: Detect integer overflow on precision in float.__format__()
22 and complex.__format__().
23
Serhiy Storchaka729ad5c2013-06-09 16:54:56 +030024- Issue #18038: SyntaxError raised during compilation sources with illegal
25 encoding now always contains an encoding name.
26
Benjamin Petersonb91ef002013-05-19 19:38:12 -070027- Issue #18019: Fix crash in the repr of dictionaries containing their own
28 views.
29
Ronald Oussorena85fa5c2013-07-15 18:35:14 +020030- Issue #18427: str.replace could crash the interpreter with huge strings.
31
Benjamin Peterson988aba32013-05-11 22:36:05 -050032Library
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34
Senthil Kumarand4fac042013-09-13 00:18:55 -070035- Issue #17324: Fix http.server's request handling case on trailing '/'. Patch
36 contributed by Vajrasky Kok.
37
Raymond Hettinger39659f22013-09-14 22:17:39 -070038- Issue #19018: The heapq.merge() function no longer suppresses IndexError
39 in the underlying iterables.
40
Serhiy Storchakab06f5362013-09-13 07:52:00 +030041- Issue #18784: The uuid module no more attempts to load libc via ctypes.CDLL,
42 if all necessary functions are already found in libuuid.
43 Patch by Evgeny Sologubov.
44
Michael Foord050e9e52013-09-08 15:34:27 +120045- Issue #14971: unittest test discovery no longer gets confused when a function
46 has a different __name__ than its name in the TestCase class dictionary.
47
Serhiy Storchakacf29ba82013-09-05 18:02:57 +030048- Issue #18672: Fixed format specifiers for Py_ssize_t in debugging output in
Serhiy Storchaka7d12ca52013-09-08 20:43:16 +030049 the _sre module.
Serhiy Storchakacf29ba82013-09-05 18:02:57 +030050
Serhiy Storchaka6db9e882013-09-05 17:28:10 +030051- Issue #18830: inspect.getclasstree() no more produces duplicated entries even
52 when input list contains duplicates.
53
Victor Stinner930c3c92013-09-05 00:26:15 +020054- Issue #18909: Fix _tkinter.tkapp.interpaddr() on Windows 64-bit, don't cast
55 64-bit pointer to long (32 bits).
56
Antoine Pitrou213fec42013-09-04 20:46:33 +020057- Issue #18876: The FileIO.mode attribute now better reflects the actual mode
58 under which the file was opened. Patch by Erik Bray.
59
Antoine Pitrou33fc7442013-08-30 23:38:13 +020060- Issue #18851: Avoid a double close of subprocess pipes when the child
61 process fails starting.
62
Charles-François Natali30a54452013-08-30 23:30:50 +020063- Issue #18418: After fork(), reinit all threads states, not only active ones.
64 Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.
65
Christian Heimes42831fe2013-08-25 14:57:00 +020066- Issue #11973: Fix a problem in kevent. The flags and fflags fields are now
67 properly handled as unsigned.
68
Serhiy Storchakab4455582013-08-22 17:53:16 +030069- Issue #16809: Fixed some tkinter incompabilities with Tcl/Tk 8.6.
70
Serhiy Storchaka2ac1c1a2013-08-22 17:42:45 +030071- Issue #16809: Tkinter's splitlist() and split() methods now accept Tcl_Obj
72 argument.
73
Serhiy Storchaka42035702013-08-21 21:46:12 +030074- Issue #17119: Fixed integer overflows when processing large Unicode strings
75 and tuples in the tkinter module.
76
Charles-François Natalib817faa2013-08-21 18:25:00 +020077- Issue #15233: Python now guarantees that callables registered with the atexit
78 module will be called in a deterministic order.
79
Christian Heimes0d604cf2013-08-21 13:26:05 +020080- Issue #18747: Re-seed OpenSSL's pseudo-random number generator after fork.
Christian Heimes8ee5ffd2013-08-25 14:19:16 +020081 A pthread_atfork() parent handler is used to seed the PRNG with pid, time
Christian Heimes0d604cf2013-08-21 13:26:05 +020082 and some stack data.
83
Serhiy Storchakac3603892013-08-20 20:38:21 +030084- Issue #8865: Concurrent invocation of select.poll.poll() now raises a
85 RuntimeError exception. Patch by Christian Schubert.
86
Serhiy Storchakaa9885e92013-08-20 20:08:53 +030087- Issue #13461: Fix a crash in the TextIOWrapper.tell method on 64-bit
88 platforms. Patch by Yogesh Chaudhari.
89
Christian Heimes10107812013-08-19 17:36:29 +020090- Issue #18777: The ssl module now uses the new CRYPTO_THREADID API of
91 OpenSSL 1.0.0+ instead of the deprecated CRYPTO id callback function.
92
Christian Heimesec8c2192013-08-18 03:11:11 +020093- Issue #18768: Correct doc string of RAND_edg(). Patch by Vajrasky Kok.
Christian Heimesb4ec8422013-08-17 17:25:18 +020094
Christian Heimes6e0be012013-08-17 15:01:54 +020095- Issue #18178: Fix ctypes on BSD. dlmalloc.c was compiled twice which broke
96 malloc weak symbols.
97
Christian Heimes88b174c2013-08-17 00:54:47 +020098- Issue #18709: Fix CVE-2013-4238. The SSL module now handles NULL bytes
99 inside subjectAltName correctly. Formerly the module has used OpenSSL's
100 GENERAL_NAME_print() function to get the string represention of ASN.1
101 strings for ``rfc822Name`` (email), ``dNSName`` (DNS) and
102 ``uniformResourceIdentifier`` (URI).
103
Antoine Pitrouf48a67b2013-08-16 20:44:38 +0200104- Issue #18756: Improve error reporting in os.urandom() when the failure
105 is due to something else than /dev/urandom not existing (for example,
106 exhausting the file descriptor limit).
107
Antoine Pitrou4221b7c2013-08-13 20:23:56 +0200108- Fix tkinter regression introduced by the security fix in issue #16248.
109
Terry Jan Reedybb8114c2013-08-10 18:17:01 -0400110- Issue #18676: Change 'positive' to 'non-negative' in queue.py put and get
111 docstrings and ValueError messages. Patch by Zhongyue Luo
112
Serhiy Storchaka3ade66c2013-08-03 19:26:33 +0300113- Issue #17998: Fix an internal error in regular expression engine.
114
Ned Deily80743642013-08-01 21:19:09 -0700115- Issue #17557: Fix os.getgroups() to work with the modified behavior of
116 getgroups(2) on OS X 10.8. Original patch by Mateusz Lenik.
117
Richard Oudkerkc8ef9bc2013-07-15 18:37:48 +0100118- Issue #18455: multiprocessing should not retry connect() with same socket.
119
Raymond Hettinger69468142013-07-20 10:56:58 -0700120- Issue #18513: Fix behaviour of cmath.rect w.r.t. signed zeros on OS X 10.8 +
121 gcc.
122
Serhiy Storchakafab65422013-07-11 20:32:48 +0300123- Issue #18101: Tcl.split() now process Unicode strings nested in a tuple as it
124 do with byte strings.
125
Christian Heimes20d46692013-07-05 01:41:30 +0200126- Issue #18347: ElementTree's html serializer now preserves the case of
127 closing tags.
128
Richard Oudkerk1e462fe2013-07-02 13:31:43 +0100129- Issue #17261: Ensure multiprocessing's proxies use proper address.
130
Richard Oudkerk41072db2013-07-01 18:45:28 +0100131- Issue #17097: Make multiprocessing ignore EINTR.
132
R David Murray24dc7532013-06-29 18:43:59 -0400133- Issue #18155: The csv module now correctly handles csv files that use
134 a delimiter character that has a special meaning in regexes, instead of
135 throwing an exception.
136
Victor Stinnerc1a44262013-06-25 00:48:02 +0200137- Issue #18135: ssl.SSLSocket.write() now raises an OverflowError if the input
138 string in longer than 2 gigabytes. The ssl module does not support partial
139 write.
Victor Stinner4807df42013-06-23 15:15:10 +0200140
R David Murray24dc7532013-06-29 18:43:59 -0400141- Issue #18167: cgi.FieldStorage no longer fails to handle multipart/form-data
Serhiy Storchakae2cc3412013-06-17 16:33:48 +0300142 when \r\n appears at end of 65535 bytes without other newlines.
143
Senthil Kumaran2c4810e2013-05-29 05:58:47 -0700144- Issue #17403: urllib.parse.robotparser normalizes the urls before adding to
145 ruleline. This helps in handling certain types invalid urls in a conservative
146 manner. Patch contributed by Mher Movsisyan.
147
Benjamin Peterson1cf48b42013-05-22 13:25:41 -0700148- Implement inequality on weakref.WeakSet.
149
Vinay Sajipbb6b51c2013-05-16 22:47:47 +0100150- Issue #17981: Closed socket on error in SysLogHandler.
151
Raymond Hettinger7393c692013-05-27 10:58:55 -0700152- Issue #18015: Fix unpickling of 2.7.3 and 2.7.4 namedtuples.
153
doko@ubuntu.com96645cc2013-05-15 15:46:11 +0200154- Issue #17754: Make ctypes.util.find_library() independent of the locale.
Benjamin Peterson988aba32013-05-11 22:36:05 -0500155
doko@ubuntu.com98552492013-05-15 16:54:16 +0200156- Fix typos in the multiprocessing module.
157
Ronald Oussoren16c52a32013-05-24 13:45:27 +0200158- Issue #17269: Workaround for socket.getaddrinfo crash on MacOS X
159 with port None or "0" and flags AI_NUMERICSERV.
160
Ned Deily1ab29e72013-05-28 16:31:45 -0700161- Issue #18080: When building a C extension module on OS X, if the compiler
162 is overriden with the CC environment variable, use the new compiler as
163 the default for linking if LDSHARED is not also overriden. This restores
164 Distutils behavior introduced in 2.7.3 and inadvertently dropped in 2.7.4.
165
Ned Deilyfb773862013-07-31 00:14:20 -0700166- Issue #18071: C extension module builds on OS X could fail with TypeError
167 if the Xcode command line tools were not installed.
168
Andrew Kuchlinga49dcc52013-06-15 13:53:10 -0400169- Issue #18113: Fixed a refcount leak in the curses.panel module's
170 set_userptr() method. Reported by Atsuo Ishimoto.
171
Eli Bendersky8c7e9252013-09-06 06:17:15 -0700172- Issue #18849: Fixed a Windows-specific tempfile bug where collision with an
173 existing directory caused mkstemp and related APIs to fail instead of
174 retrying. Report and fix by Vlad Shcherbina.
175
176
Ronald Oussoren51ee6562013-07-06 13:19:58 +0200177Tools/Demos
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179
Serhiy Storchaka879a2132013-08-25 19:12:33 +0300180- Issue #18817: Fix a resource warning in Lib/aifc.py demo.
181
Terry Jan Reedy7af16b32013-07-21 21:08:29 -0400182- Issue #18439: Make patchcheck work on Windows for ACKS, NEWS.
183
Serhiy Storchakaf52d5742013-07-16 22:11:28 +0300184- Issue #18448: Fix a typo in Demo/newmetaclasses/Eiffel.py.
185
Ronald Oussoren51ee6562013-07-06 13:19:58 +0200186- Issue #12990: The "Python Launcher" on OSX could not launch python scripts
187 that have paths that include wide characters.
188
Ned Deily8e60f6e2013-05-30 00:14:29 -0700189Build
190-----
191
Martin v. Löwisd5375df2013-08-03 20:24:00 +0200192- Issue #16067: Add description into MSI file to replace installer's temporary name.
193
Antoine Pitrou7e9cec02013-06-18 22:17:48 +0200194- Issue #18256: Compilation fix for recent AIX releases. Patch by
195 David Edelsohn.
196
Ned Deily8e60f6e2013-05-30 00:14:29 -0700197- Issue #18098: The deprecated OS X Build Applet.app fails to build on
198 OS X 10.8 systems because the Apple-deprecated QuickDraw headers have
199 been removed from Xcode 4. Skip building it in this case.
200
Roger Serwy02c0ed02013-05-20 22:13:39 -0500201IDLE
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203
Serhiy Storchakae03c74a2013-09-11 22:49:06 +0300204- Issue #18988: The "Tab" key now works when a word is already autocompleted.
205
Terry Jan Reedy4c427352013-08-31 16:27:08 -0400206- Issue #18489: Add tests for SearchEngine. Original patch by Phil Webster.
207
Terry Jan Reedy0fd11562013-08-10 17:46:16 -0400208- Issue #18429: Format / Format Paragraph, now works when comment blocks
209 are selected. As with text blocks, this works best when the selection
210 only includes complete lines.
211
Terry Jan Reedy3d354892013-08-10 16:56:20 -0400212- Issue #18226: Add docstrings and unittests for FormatParagraph.py.
213 Original patches by Todd Rovito and Phil Webster.
214
Terry Jan Reedyc8a198c2013-07-13 02:34:35 -0400215- Issue #18279: Format - Strip trailing whitespace no longer marks a file as
216 changed when it has not been changed. This fix followed the addition of a
217 test file originally written by Phil Webster (the issue's main goal).
218
Terry Jan Reedy34906552013-07-26 18:21:32 -0400219- Issue #18539: Calltips now work for float default arguments.
220
Terry Jan Reedy44d8b112013-07-01 00:42:44 -0400221- Issue #7136: In the Idle File menu, "New Window" is renamed "New File".
222 Patch by Tal Einat, Roget Serwy, and Todd Rovito.
Ronald Oussoren3687e802013-07-11 13:33:55 +0200223
Terry Jan Reedyb6eeef42013-06-30 19:07:49 -0400224- Issue #8515: Set __file__ when run file in IDLE.
225 Initial patch by Bruce Frederiksen.
226
Roger Serwy16ce43a2013-06-11 22:13:17 -0500227- Issue #5492: Avoid traceback when exiting IDLE caused by a race condition.
228
Roger Serwyfff3f482013-06-10 23:01:20 -0500229- Issue #17511: Keep IDLE find dialog open after clicking "Find Next".
230 Original patch by Sarah K.
231
Terry Jan Reedyb8fd9ca2013-05-30 14:47:33 -0400232- Issue #15392: Create a unittest framework for IDLE.
233 Preliminary patch by Rajagopalasarma Jayakrishnan
Terry Jan Reedyc8a198c2013-07-13 02:34:35 -0400234 See Lib/idlelib/idle_test/README.txt for how to run Idle tests.
Terry Jan Reedyb8fd9ca2013-05-30 14:47:33 -0400235
Roger Serwy02c0ed02013-05-20 22:13:39 -0500236- Issue #14146: Highlight source line while debugging on Windows.
237
Ned Deily674f4fa2013-05-22 15:16:17 -0700238- Issue #17532: Always include Options menu for IDLE on OS X.
239 Patch by Guilherme Simões.
240
Antoine Pitrouf41ffed2013-05-19 15:44:54 +0200241Tests
242-----
243
Antoine Pitrou78254dc2013-08-22 00:39:46 +0200244- Issue #18792: Use "127.0.0.1" or "::1" instead of "localhost" as much as
245 possible, since "localhost" goes through a DNS lookup under recent Windows
246 versions.
247
Ezio Melotti7921b302013-08-08 20:09:19 +0300248- Issue #18357: add tests for dictview set difference.
249 Patch by Fraser Tweedale.
250
Antoine Pitrou0c503c22013-07-04 21:03:10 +0200251- Issue #11185: Fix test_wait4 under AIX. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
252
Serhiy Storchaka95787fd2013-05-31 22:34:53 +0300253- Issue #18094: test_uuid no more reports skipped tests as passed.
254
Antoine Pitrouf41ffed2013-05-19 15:44:54 +0200255- Issue #11995: test_pydoc doesn't import all sys.path modules anymore.
256
Serhiy Storchaka54f70922013-05-22 15:28:30 +0300257Documentation
258-------------
259
David Wolevera80d3a02013-08-14 14:33:54 -0400260- Issue #18718: datetime documentation contradictory on leap second support.
261
David Wolever452dd382013-08-12 15:50:10 -0400262- Issue #17701: Improving strftime documentation.
David Wolevera80d3a02013-08-14 14:33:54 -0400263
Serhiy Storchaka54f70922013-05-22 15:28:30 +0300264- Issue #17844: Refactor a documentation of Python specific encodings.
265 Add links to encoders and decoders for binary-to-binary codecs.
266
Antoine Pitrouf41ffed2013-05-19 15:44:54 +0200267
Benjamin Petersonaec81392013-03-23 15:24:13 -0500268What's New in Python 2.7.5?
269===========================
270
Benjamin Peterson08649442013-05-11 22:29:20 -0500271*Release date: 2013-05-12*
Benjamin Petersonaec81392013-03-23 15:24:13 -0500272
273Core and Builtins
274-----------------
275
Ronald Oussoren16c52a32013-05-24 13:45:27 +0200276- Issue #15535: Fixed regression in the pickling of named tuples by
Raymond Hettinger0801d732013-05-03 00:59:20 -0700277 removing the __dict__ property introduced in 2.7.4.
278
Serhiy Storchaka8493a042013-04-28 14:09:47 +0300279- Issue #17857: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of sqlite3,
280 such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
281
Antoine Pitrou108d1b42013-04-15 21:20:14 +0200282- Issue #17703: Fix a regression where an illegal use of Py_DECREF() after
283 interpreter finalization can cause a crash.
284
Mark Dickinsonf794b142013-04-13 15:19:05 +0100285- Issue #16447: Fixed potential segmentation fault when setting __name__ on a
286 class.
287
Benjamin Peterson74001fa2013-04-07 09:52:59 -0400288- Issue #17610: Don't rely on non-standard behavior of the C qsort() function.
289
Benjamin Petersonaec81392013-03-23 15:24:13 -0500290Library
291-------
292
Serhiy Storchakacb1a0282013-05-21 22:53:33 +0300293- Issue #17979: Fixed the re module in build with --disable-unicode.
294
Serhiy Storchaka74239032013-05-12 17:29:34 +0300295- Issue #17606: Fixed support of encoded byte strings in the XMLGenerator
296 .characters() and ignorableWhitespace() methods. Original patch by Sebastian
297 Ortiz Vasquez.
298
Serhiy Storchakace34ba62013-05-09 14:22:05 +0300299- Issue #16601: Restarting iteration over tarfile no more continues from where
300 it left off. Patch by Michael Birtwell.
301
Terry Jan Reedy673770c2013-05-08 23:42:41 -0400302- Issue 16584: in filecomp._cmp, catch IOError as well as os.error.
303 Patch by Till Maas.
304
Antoine Pitrou38f1afe2013-05-08 01:51:37 +0200305- Issue #17926: Fix dbm.__contains__ on 64-bit big-endian machines.
306
Antoine Pitrouf16ff7b2013-05-06 22:19:48 +0200307- Issue #17918: When using SSLSocket.accept(), if the SSL handshake failed
308 on the new socket, the socket would linger indefinitely. Thanks to
309 Peter Saveliev for reporting.
310
Antoine Pitrou31bc8be2013-05-06 21:51:03 +0200311- Issue #17289: The readline module now plays nicer with external modules
312 or applications changing the rl_completer_word_break_characters global
313 variable. Initial patch by Bradley Froehle.
314
Charles-Francois Natali880359c2013-05-06 21:21:57 +0200315- Issue #12181: select module: Fix struct kevent definition on OpenBSD 64-bit
316 platforms. Patch by Federico Schwindt.
317
Antoine Pitroud8931c32013-05-04 23:16:59 +0200318- Issue #14173: Avoid crashing when reading a signal handler during
319 interpreter shutdown.
320
Serhiy Storchaka6aca7652013-05-04 15:11:46 +0300321- Issue #16316: mimetypes now recognizes the .xz and .txz (.tar.xz) extensions.
322
Gregory P. Smith4832f342013-04-30 00:56:07 -0700323- Issue #17192: Restore the patch for Issue #10309 which was ommitted
324 in 2.7.4 when updating the bundled version of libffi used by ctypes.
325
Nadeem Vawdac1ea5ec2013-04-28 19:01:31 +0200326- Issue #17843: Removed test data file that was triggering false-positive virus
327 warnings with certain antivirus software.
328
Ronald Oussoren7b0baf02013-04-23 13:47:06 +0200329- Issue #17353: Plistlib emitted empty data tags with deeply nested datastructures
330
Serhiy Storchakad194b302013-04-22 22:51:00 +0300331- Issue #11714: Use 'with' statements to assure a Semaphore releases a
332 condition variable. Original patch by Thomas Rachel.
333
Vinay Sajip4dc385b2013-04-22 09:58:51 +0100334- Issue #17795: Reverted backwards-incompatible change in SysLogHandler with
335 Unix domain sockets.
336
Richard Oudkerk7bdd93c2013-04-17 19:15:52 +0100337- Issue #17555: Fix ForkAwareThreadLock so that size of after fork
338 registry does not grow exponentially with generation of process.
339
Antoine Pitroube929712013-04-15 21:35:25 +0200340- Issue #17710: Fix cPickle raising a SystemError on bogus input.
341
R David Murray60773392013-04-14 13:08:50 -0400342- Issue #17341: Include the invalid name in the error messages from re about
343 invalid group names.
344
Serhiy Storchaka616f2fe2013-04-13 21:15:10 +0300345- Issue #17016: Get rid of possible pointer wraparounds and integer overflows
346 in the re module. Patch by Nickolai Zeldovich.
347
doko@ubuntu.com66da7c52013-04-13 17:05:11 +0200348- Issue #17536: Add to webbrowser's browser list: xdg-open, gvfs-open,
349 www-browser, x-www-browser, chromium browsers, iceweasel, iceape.
350
Serhiy Storchaka6fa83f92013-04-13 12:28:17 +0300351- Issue #17656: Fix extraction of zip files with unicode member paths.
352
Serhiy Storchaka371432b2013-04-08 22:33:55 +0300353- Issue #17666: Fix reading gzip files with an extra field.
354
doko@ubuntu.com6cb43432013-04-08 21:20:09 +0200355- Issue #13150, #17512: sysconfig no longer parses the Makefile and config.h
356 files when imported, instead doing it at build time. This makes importing
357 sysconfig faster and reduces Python startup time by 20%.
358
R David Murrayc993a192013-04-02 12:15:07 -0400359- Issue #13163: Rename operands in smtplib.SMTP._get_socket to correct names;
360 fixes otherwise misleading output in tracebacks and when when debug is on.
361
Ezio Melottie66e7de2013-03-30 05:10:28 +0200362- Issue #17526: fix an IndexError raised while passing code without filename to
363 inspect.findsource(). Initial patch by Tyler Doyle.
364
Antoine Pitrou4ccdc962013-05-08 03:23:10 +0200365Build
366-----
367
Benjamin Petersonc8759662013-05-11 13:00:05 -0500368- Issue #17547: In configure, explicitly pass -Wformat for the benefit for GCC
369 4.8.
370
Antoine Pitrou4ccdc962013-05-08 03:23:10 +0200371- Issue #17682: Add the _io module to Modules/Setup.dist (commented out).
372
373- Issue #17086: Search the include and library directories provided by the
374 compiler.
375
R David Murray5cbff512013-04-21 10:13:43 -0400376Tests
377-----
378
Antoine Pitrou1e181022013-05-08 02:07:13 +0200379- Issue #17928: Fix test_structmembers on 64-bit big-endian machines.
380
Ezio Melotti6a4f3942013-05-05 22:36:09 +0300381- Issue #17883: Fix buildbot testing of Tkinter on Windows.
382 Patch by Zachary Ware.
383
Ezio Melotti5cea09d2013-05-04 17:59:03 +0300384- Issue #7855: Add tests for ctypes/winreg for issues found in IronPython.
385 Initial patch by Dino Viehland.
386
Antoine Pitroub996e042013-05-01 00:15:44 +0200387- Issue #17712: Fix test_gdb failures on Ubuntu 13.04.
388
R David Murray5cbff512013-04-21 10:13:43 -0400389- Issue #17065: Use process-unique key for winreg tests to avoid failures if
390 test is run multiple times in parallel (eg: on a buildbot host).
391
Benjamin Peterson89e2aed2013-04-06 15:19:04 -0400392IDLE
393----
394
Benjamin Peterson5a271682013-05-11 22:24:28 -0500395- Issue #17838: Allow sys.stdin to be reassigned.
396
Roger Serwy90f8b232013-04-17 00:22:50 -0500397- Issue #14735: Update IDLE docs to omit "Control-z on Windows".
398
Roger Serwy53dc4f02013-04-11 19:13:21 -0500399- Issue #17585: Fixed IDLE regression. Now closes when using exit() or quit().
400
Roger Serwy789299f2013-04-08 20:57:13 -0500401- Issue #17657: Show full Tk version in IDLE's about dialog.
402 Patch by Todd Rovito.
403
Roger Serwy4e9a7052013-04-07 12:41:16 -0500404- Issue #17613: Prevent traceback when removing syntax colorizer in IDLE.
405
Roger Serwy231a8fd2013-04-07 12:15:52 -0500406- Issue #1207589: Backwards-compatibility patch for right-click menu in IDLE.
407
Roger Serwy75b249c2013-04-06 20:26:53 -0500408- Issue #16887: IDLE now accepts Cancel in tabify/untabify dialog box.
409
Benjamin Peterson89e2aed2013-04-06 15:19:04 -0400410- Issue #14254: IDLE now handles readline correctly across shell restarts.
411
412- Issue #17614: IDLE no longer raises exception when quickly closing a file.
413
414- Issue #6698: IDLE now opens just an editor window when configured to do so.
415
Roger Serwy08759c72013-04-06 20:21:21 -0500416- Issue #8900: Using keyboard shortcuts in IDLE to open a file no longer
417 raises an exception.
418
419- Issue #6649: Fixed missing exit status in IDLE. Patch by Guilherme Polo.
420
Terry Jan Reedy6e65e992013-04-03 13:24:26 -0400421Documentation
422-------------
423
424- Issue #15940: Specify effect of locale on time functions.
425
Ezio Melotti0ba584c2013-04-12 16:22:24 +0300426- Issue #6696: add documentation for the Profile objects, and improve
427 profile/cProfile docs. Patch by Tom Pinckney.
428
Benjamin Petersonaec81392013-03-23 15:24:13 -0500429
Benjamin Peterson31289232013-03-23 15:22:20 -0500430What's New in Python 2.7.4?
431===========================
432
Benjamin Peterson376dd0e2013-04-06 09:58:51 -0400433*Release date: 2013-04-06*
Benjamin Peterson31289232013-03-23 15:22:20 -0500434
Benjamin Petersonb9be7bb2013-03-26 08:55:37 -0400435Build
436-----
437
438- Issue #17550: Fix the --enable-profiling configure switch.
439
Benjamin Petersonda2c7eb2013-03-23 22:32:00 -0500440Core and Builtins
441-----------------
442
443- Issue #15801 (again): With string % formatting, relax the type check for a
444 mapping such that any type with a __getitem__ can be used on the right hand
445 side.
446
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +0300447IDLE
448----
Benjamin Peterson31289232013-03-23 15:22:20 -0500449
Benjamin Peterson167a96c2013-04-03 22:35:12 -0400450- Issue #17625: In IDLE, close the replace dialog after it is used.
451
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +0300452Tests
453-----
454
Antoine Pitrou68915d72013-04-24 23:31:38 +0200455- Issue #17835: Fix test_io when the default OS pipe buffer size is larger
456 than one million bytes.
457
Benjamin Peterson01d9a772013-03-23 15:40:36 -0500458- Issue #17531: Fix tests that thought group and user ids were always the int
Benjamin Peterson7e2f1972013-03-23 16:35:45 -0500459 type. Also, always allow -1 as a valid group and user id.
Benjamin Peterson31289232013-03-23 15:22:20 -0500460
Benjamin Petersond627e122013-03-30 10:36:31 -0400461- Issue #17533: Fix test_xpickle with older versions of Python 2.5.
462
Christian Heimes23790b42013-03-26 17:53:05 +0100463Documentation
464-------------
465
466- Issue 17538: Document XML vulnerabilties
467
Benjamin Peterson31289232013-03-23 15:22:20 -0500468
Benjamin Petersona1f6fab2013-03-23 10:17:29 -0500469What's New in Python 2.7.4 release candidate 1
470==============================================
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200471
Benjamin Petersona1f6fab2013-03-23 10:17:29 -0500472*Release date: 2013-03-23*
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200473
474Core and Builtins
475-----------------
476
Kristján Valur Jónsson9795ca42013-03-19 17:17:47 -0700477- Issue #10211: Buffer objects expose the new buffer interface internally
478
Mark Dickinson7cac1c22013-03-03 11:13:34 +0000479- Issue #16445: Fixed potential segmentation fault when deleting an exception
480 message.
481
R David Murray5b2cf5e2013-02-23 22:11:21 -0500482- Issue #17275: Corrected class name in init error messages of the C version of
483 BufferedWriter and BufferedRandom.
484
R David Murray5aff27a2013-02-18 22:04:59 -0500485- Issue #7963: Fixed misleading error message that issued when object is
486 called without arguments.
487
Serhiy Storchaka34fe1b72013-02-13 12:07:43 +0200488- Issue #5308: Raise ValueError when marshalling too large object (a sequence
489 with size >= 2**31), instead of producing illegal marshal data.
490
Serhiy Storchakad5327d92013-02-07 16:23:11 +0200491- Issue #17043: The unicode-internal decoder no longer read past the end of
492 input buffer.
493
Serhiy Storchaka64cca122013-01-29 12:04:55 +0200494- Issue #16979: Fix error handling bugs in the unicode-escape-decode decoder.
495
Serhiy Storchakac59c85c2013-01-26 12:13:40 +0200496- Issue #10156: In the interpreter's initialization phase, unicode globals
497 are now initialized dynamically as needed.
498
Serhiy Storchaka01b3a082013-01-25 23:30:50 +0200499- Issue #16975: Fix error handling bug in the escape-decode decoder.
500
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +0200501- Issue #14850: Now a charmap decoder treats U+FFFE as "undefined mapping"
502 in any mapping, not only in a Unicode string.
Serhiy Storchaka95997452013-01-15 14:42:59 +0200503
Serhiy Storchakac4b82c02013-01-08 23:12:00 +0200504- Issue #11461: Fix the incremental UTF-16 decoder. Original patch by
505 Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
506
Victor Stinner23a32ba2013-01-03 03:33:21 +0100507- Issue #16367: Fix FileIO.readall() on Windows for files larger than 2 GB.
508
Benjamin Petersona708adf2013-01-02 12:21:32 -0600509- Issue #15516: Fix a bug in PyString_FromFormat where it failed to properly
510 ignore errors from a __int__() method.
511
Benjamin Peterson6b3f8d32013-01-02 09:36:23 -0600512- Issue #16839: Fix a segfault when calling unicode() on a classic class early
513 in interpreter initialization.
514
Serhiy Storchakacf095f82012-12-28 09:31:59 +0200515- Issue #16761: Calling ``int()`` and ``long()`` with *base* argument only
516 now raises TypeError.
517
Brian Curtin33e05e72012-12-27 14:37:06 -0600518- Issue #16759: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Reg2Py
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +0200519 when retrieving a REG_DWORD value. This corrects functions like
Brian Curtin33e05e72012-12-27 14:37:06 -0600520 winreg.QueryValueEx that may have been returning truncated values.
521
Brian Curtin0e091b02012-12-27 12:28:51 -0600522- Issue #14420: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Py2Reg
523 when passed a REG_DWORD value. Fixes ValueError in winreg.SetValueEx when
524 given a long.
525
Mark Dickinson9fade762012-12-24 16:33:18 +0000526- Issue #13863: Work around buggy 'fstat' implementation on Windows / NTFS that
527 lead to incorrect timestamps (off by one hour) being stored in .pyc files on
528 some systems.
529
Antoine Pitroud38c9902012-12-08 21:15:26 +0100530- Issue #16602: When a weakref's target was part of a long deallocation
531 chain, the object could remain reachable through its weakref even though
532 its refcount had dropped to zero.
533
Mark Dickinsonb1cc6aa2012-11-25 17:11:33 +0000534- Issue #9011: Fix hacky AST code that modified the CST when compiling
535 a negated numeric literal.
536
Ezio Melottidb5947f2012-11-18 13:46:38 +0200537- Issue #16306: Fix multiple error messages when unknown command line
538 parameters where passed to the interpreter. Patch by Hieu Nguyen.
539
Antoine Pitroue3ae3212012-11-17 21:14:58 +0100540- Issue #15379: Fix passing of non-BMP characters as integers for the charmap
541 decoder (already working as unicode strings). Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
542
Antoine Pitroub704eab2012-11-11 19:36:51 +0100543- Issue #16453: Fix equality testing of dead weakref objects.
544
Gregory P. Smithc1ce93a2012-11-10 20:38:17 -0800545- Issue #9535: Fix pending signals that have been received but not yet
546 handled by Python to not persist after os.fork() in the child process.
547
Hynek Schlawackb271b3e2012-11-07 09:41:28 +0100548- Issue #15001: fix segfault on "del sys.modules['__main__']". Patch by Victor
549 Stinner.
550
Ezio Melotti751a50f2012-11-05 00:06:50 +0200551- Issue #5057: the peepholer no longer optimizes subscription on unicode
Ezio Melottic18cc0e2012-11-05 00:03:21 +0200552 literals (e.g. u'foo'[0]) in order to produce compatible pyc files between
553 narrow and wide builds.
554
Ezio Melotti67dc4a82012-11-03 21:10:45 +0200555- Issue #8401: assigning an int to a bytearray slice (e.g. b[3:4] = 5) now
556 raises an error.
557
Mark Dickinson75d36002012-10-28 10:00:46 +0000558- Issue #14700: Fix buggy overflow checks for large width and precision
559 in string formatting operations.
560
Benjamin Peterson0ec820f2012-10-31 14:05:55 -0400561- Issue #16345: Fix an infinite loop when ``fromkeys`` on a dict subclass
Benjamin Petersonc40ddae2012-10-31 14:16:09 -0400562 received a nonempty dict from the constructor.
Benjamin Peterson0ec820f2012-10-31 14:05:55 -0400563
Nick Coghlanb48c0282012-10-19 21:58:18 +1000564- Issue #6074: Ensure cached bytecode files can always be updated by the
565 user that created them, even when the source file is read-only.
566
Chris Jerdonekad4b0002012-10-07 20:37:54 -0700567- Issue #14783: Improve int() and long() docstrings and switch docstrings for
568 unicode(), slice(), range(), and xrange() to use multi-line signatures.
569
Mark Dickinson218a8ab2012-09-28 20:36:36 +0100570- Issue #16030: Fix overflow bug in computing the `repr` of an xrange object
571 with large start, step or length.
572
573- Issue #16029: Fix overflow bug occurring when pickling xranges with large
574 start, step or length.
575
Christian Heimes671138f2012-09-25 13:29:30 +0200576- Issue #16037: Limit httplib's _read_status() function to work around broken
577 HTTP servers and reduce memory usage. It's actually a backport of a Python
578 3.2 fix. Thanks to Adrien Kunysz.
579
Jesus Cea7ddd9c22012-12-05 14:41:11 +0100580- Issue #16588: Silence unused-but-set warnings in Python/thread_pthread
581
Antoine Pitrou58098a72012-09-06 00:59:49 +0200582- Issue #13992: The trashcan mechanism is now thread-safe. This eliminates
583 sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator
584 chains ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container
585 types.
586
Benjamin Peterson23d49d32012-08-28 17:55:35 -0400587- Issue #15801: Make sure mappings passed to '%' formatting are actually
588 subscriptable.
589
Antoine Pitrouc5bef752012-08-15 23:16:51 +0200590- Issue #15604: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue() to check for and handle
591 errors correctly. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
592
Antoine Pitrou715a63b2012-07-21 00:52:06 +0200593- Issue #14579: Fix error handling bug in the utf-16 decoder. Patch by
594 Serhiy Storchaka.
595
Meador Inge6642d1f2012-07-18 14:09:04 -0500596- Issue #15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be
597 non-deterministic when using randomized hashing (-R) has been fixed.
598
Jesus Ceae884be62012-10-03 02:13:05 +0200599- Issue #15897: zipimport.c doesn't check return value of fseek().
600 Patch by Felipe Cruz.
601
Jesus Ceabdf1b9e2012-10-31 17:00:19 +0100602- Issue #16369: Global PyTypeObjects not initialized with PyType_Ready(...).
603
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +0200604- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m switch,
Senthil Kumaran3b30b192012-07-04 19:50:29 -0700605 return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.
606
Gregory P. Smithb2ac4d62012-06-25 20:57:36 -0700607- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read() methods no longer lose
608 data when an underlying read system call is interrupted. IOError is no
609 longer raised due to a read system call returning EINTR from within these
610 methods.
611
Éric Araujoe5567cc2012-07-03 01:23:46 -0400612- Issue #13512: Create ~/.pypirc securely (CVE-2011-4944). Initial patch by
613 Philip Jenvey, tested by Mageia and Debian.
614
Éric Araujo3cf202e2012-07-03 01:12:42 -0400615- Issue #7719: Make distutils ignore ``.nfs*`` files instead of choking later
616 on. Initial patch by SilentGhost and Jeff Ramnani.
617
Hynek Schlawack9bd4bf22012-06-21 19:45:19 +0200618- Issue #10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
619 the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
620
Antoine Pitrouff0e22b2012-05-28 22:22:34 +0200621- Issue #14775: Fix a potential quadratic dict build-up due to the garbage
622 collector repeatedly trying to untrack dicts.
623
Petri Lehtinen5f397062012-05-19 18:34:06 +0300624- Issue #14494: Fix __future__.py and its documentation to note that
625 absolute imports are the default behavior in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
626 Patch by Sven Marnach.
627
Antoine Pitrou284fa082012-05-09 13:24:31 +0200628- Issue #14761: Fix potential leak on an error case in the import machinery.
629
Benjamin Peterson042c47b2012-05-01 09:51:09 -0400630- Issue #14699: Fix calling the classmethod descriptor directly.
631
Benjamin Petersond157a4c2012-04-24 11:06:25 -0400632- Issue #11603 (again): Setting __repr__ to __str__ now raises a RuntimeError
633 when repr() or str() is called on such an object.
634
635- Issue #14658: Fix binding a special method to a builtin implementation of a
636 special method with a different name.
637
Benjamin Peterson76605552012-04-18 11:14:31 -0400638- Issue #14612: Fix jumping around with blocks by setting f_lineno.
639
Mark Dickinson9c0baf72012-04-15 15:19:06 +0100640- Issue #13889: Check and (if necessary) set FPU control word before calling
641 any of the dtoa.c string <-> float conversion functions, on MSVC builds of
642 Python. This fixes issues when embedding Python in a Delphi app.
643
Antoine Pitrou02a38012012-04-05 14:07:52 +0200644- Issue #14505: Fix file descriptor leak when deallocating file objects
645 created with PyFile_FromString().
646
Benjamin Petersonf73813a2012-04-02 11:15:17 -0400647- Issue #14474: Save and restore exception state in thread.start_new_thread()
648 while writing error message if the thread leaves a unhandled exception.
649
Antoine Pitroufe941772012-04-01 16:05:46 +0200650- Issue #13019: Fix potential reference leaks in bytearray.extend(). Patch
651 by Suman Saha.
652
Benjamin Petersoneff19a12012-03-22 08:19:04 -0400653- Issue #14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string as
654 the module name that was not interned.
655
Gregory P. Smithfcdf04b2012-03-18 16:07:10 -0700656- Issue #14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by
657 allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack.
658
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -0500659- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
Benjamin Petersondbc52f82012-03-16 10:58:46 -0500660 passed strings. Also fix segfaults in the __getattribute__ and __setattr__
661 methods of old-style classes.
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -0500662
Ezio Melotti11f8b682012-03-12 01:17:02 +0200663- Issue #14161: fix the __repr__ of file objects to escape the file name.
664
Benjamin Petersona8d45852012-03-07 18:41:11 -0600665- Issue #1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be
666 collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``).
667
Antoine Pitrou6a1cd1b2012-02-27 00:45:12 +0100668- Issue #13521: dict.setdefault() now does only one lookup for the given key,
669 making it "atomic" for many purposes. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
670
Ronald Oussoren1c60c7a2013-01-25 17:55:39 +0100671- Issue #1602133: on Mac OS X a shared library build (``--enable-shared``)
672 now fills the ``os.environ`` variable correctly.
673
krisvale479c8f82012-03-22 20:17:42 +0000674- Issue #10538: When using the "s*" code with PyArg_ParseTuple() to fill a
675 Py_buffer structure with data from an object supporting only the old
676 PyBuffer interface, a reference to the source objects is now properly added
677 to the Py_buffer.obj member.
678
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600679Library
680-------
681
Vinay Sajip1e76e862013-03-25 23:37:41 +0000682- Issue #12718: Fix interaction with winpdb overriding __import__ by setting
683 importer attribute on BaseConfigurator instance.
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +0300684
Vinay Sajipbb2dad82013-03-23 11:18:10 +0000685- Issue #17521: Corrected non-enabling of logger following two calls to
686 fileConfig().
687
Vinay Sajip0e29f222013-03-23 10:56:39 +0000688- Issue #17508: Corrected MemoryHandler configuration in dictConfig() where
689 the target handler wasn't configured first.
690
Kristján Valur Jónsson9795ca42013-03-19 17:17:47 -0700691- Issue #10212: cStringIO and struct.unpack support new buffer objects.
692
Kristján Valur Jónsson8927e8f2013-03-19 15:07:35 -0700693- Issue #12098: multiprocessing on Windows now starts child processes
694 using the same sys.flags as the current process. Initial patch by
695 Sergey Mezentsev.
696
R David Murraya39c47a2013-03-19 16:26:53 -0400697- Issue #8862: Fixed curses cleanup when getkey is interrputed by a signal.
698
Kristján Valur Jónsson6ebc8f32013-03-19 10:58:59 -0700699- Issue #9090: When a socket with a timeout fails with EWOULDBLOCK or EAGAIN,
700 retry the select() loop instead of bailing out. This is because select()
701 can incorrectly report a socket as ready for reading (for example, if it
702 received some data with an invalid checksum).
703
Serhiy Storchaka923baea2013-03-14 21:31:09 +0200704- Issue #1285086: Get rid of the refcounting hack and speed up urllib.unquote().
705
Ezio Melottifda7a8c2013-03-13 01:49:57 +0200706- Issue #17368: Fix an off-by-one error in the Python JSON decoder that caused
707 a failure while decoding empty object literals when object_pairs_hook was
708 specified.
709
Antoine Pitrou49e4dfe2013-03-04 20:30:01 +0100710- Issue #17278: Fix a crash in heapq.heappush() and heapq.heappop() when
711 the list is being resized concurrently.
712
Richard Oudkerkba482642013-02-26 12:37:07 +0000713- Issue #17018: Make Process.join() retry if os.waitpid() fails with EINTR.
714
Petri Lehtinen9e147552013-02-23 19:05:09 +0100715- Issue #14720: sqlite3: Convert datetime microseconds correctly.
716 Patch by Lowe Thiderman.
717
Serhiy Storchaka49d40222013-02-21 20:17:54 +0200718- Issue #17225: JSON decoder now counts columns in the first line starting
719 with 1, as in other lines.
720
R David Murrayc32b6782013-02-19 20:00:11 -0500721- Issue #7842: backported fix for py_compile.compile() syntax error handling.
722
Serhiy Storchaka46764482013-02-18 13:00:08 +0200723- Issue #13153: Tkinter functions now raise TclError instead of ValueError when
724 a unicode argument contains non-BMP character.
725
Serhiy Storchaka6a8e2b42013-02-16 21:23:01 +0200726- Issue #9669: Protect re against infinite loops on zero-width matching in
727 non-greedy repeat. Patch by Matthew Barnett.
728
Serhiy Storchakae18e05c2013-02-16 16:47:15 +0200729- Issue #13169: The maximal repetition number in a regular expression has been
730 increased from 65534 to 2147483647 (on 32-bit platform) or 4294967294 (on
731 64-bit).
732
Richard Oudkerkf4b65602013-02-13 15:17:47 +0000733- Issue #16743: Fix mmap overflow check on 32 bit Windows.
734
Serhiy Storchaka8d7d6bc2013-02-13 12:26:58 +0200735- Issue #11311: StringIO.readline(0) now returns an empty string as all other
736 file-like objects.
737
Serhiy Storchaka0127de02013-02-13 00:34:46 +0200738- Issue #16800: tempfile.gettempdir() no longer left temporary files when
739 the disk is full. Original patch by Amir Szekely.
740
Serhiy Storchakacdc7a912013-02-12 21:36:47 +0200741- Issue #13555: cPickle now supports files larger than 2 GiB.
742
Michael Foordc36bf992013-02-11 12:53:21 +0000743- Issue #17052: unittest discovery should use self.testLoader.
Michael Foordcb66ee72013-02-10 23:59:46 +0000744
Serhiy Storchakada5c2a02013-02-12 09:27:53 +0200745- Issue #4591: Uid and gid values larger than 2**31 are supported now.
746
Serhiy Storchaka65d56392013-02-10 19:27:37 +0200747- Issue #17141: random.vonmisesvariate() no more hangs for large kappas.
748
Mark Dickinson9aaeb5e2013-02-10 14:13:40 +0000749- Issue #17149: Fix random.vonmisesvariate to always return results in
750 the range [0, 2*math.pi].
751
Serhiy Storchakaf8980382013-02-10 14:26:08 +0200752- Issue #1470548: XMLGenerator now works with UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings.
753
Serhiy Storchaka0dd3d302013-02-10 12:21:49 +0200754- Issue #6975: os.path.realpath() now correctly resolves multiple nested
755 symlinks on POSIX platforms.
756
Serhiy Storchaka276f1d52013-02-09 13:47:43 +0200757- Issue #7358: cStringIO.StringIO now supports writing to and reading from
758 a stream larger than 2 GiB on 64-bit systems.
759
Serhiy Storchakabeaa3ad2013-02-09 12:20:18 +0200760- Issue #10355: In SpooledTemporaryFile class mode and name properties and
761 xreadlines method now work for unrolled files. encoding and newlines
762 properties now removed as they have no sense and always produced
763 AttributeError.
764
Serhiy Storchaka62e709c2013-02-09 11:10:30 +0200765- Issue #16686: Fixed a lot of bugs in audioop module. Fixed crashes in
766 avgpp(), maxpp() and ratecv(). Fixed an integer overflow in add(), bias(),
767 and ratecv(). reverse(), lin2lin() and ratecv() no more lose precision for
768 32-bit samples. max() and rms() no more returns a negative result and
769 various other functions now work correctly with 32-bit sample -0x80000000.
770
Serhiy Storchaka35c52b62013-02-07 16:59:34 +0200771- Issue #17073: Fix some integer overflows in sqlite3 module.
772
Serhiy Storchakaa07a8b42013-02-04 12:45:46 +0200773- Issue #6083: Fix multiple segmentation faults occured when PyArg_ParseTuple
774 parses nested mutating sequence.
775
Benjamin Petersonf727c312013-02-03 19:25:11 -0500776- Issue #5289: Fix ctypes.util.find_library on Solaris.
777
Serhiy Storchaka354d50e2013-02-03 17:10:42 +0200778- Issue #17106: Fix a segmentation fault in io.TextIOWrapper when an underlying
779 stream or a decoder produces data of an unexpected type (i.e. when
780 io.TextIOWrapper initialized with text stream or use bytes-to-bytes codec).
781
Éric Araujo3e081c72013-02-03 11:41:19 -0500782- Issue #13994: Add compatibility alias in distutils.ccompiler for
783 distutils.sysconfig.customize_compiler.
784
Antoine Pitroud66c0ee2013-02-02 22:49:34 +0100785- Issue #15633: httplib.HTTPResponse is now mark closed when the server
786 sends less than the advertised Content-Length.
787
Benjamin Petersoneff492f2013-02-02 11:15:50 -0500788- Issue #15881: Fixed atexit hook in multiprocessing.
789
Gregory P. Smitha5df2902012-07-14 14:12:35 -0700790- Issue #14340: Upgrade the embedded expat library to version 2.1.0.
791
Serhiy Storchaka8673ab92013-02-02 10:28:30 +0200792- Issue #11159: SAX parser now supports unicode file names.
793
Gregory P. Smith608cc452013-02-01 11:40:18 -0800794- Issue #6972: The zipfile module no longer overwrites files outside of
795 its destination path when extracting malicious zip files.
796
Serhiy Storchaka8d510cd2013-01-31 15:57:51 +0200797- Issue #17049: Localized calendar methods now return unicode if a locale
798 includes an encoding and the result string contains month or weekday (was
799 regression from Python 2.6).
800
Serhiy Storchaka0be506a2013-01-31 15:26:55 +0200801- Issue #4844: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile when opens a ZIP file with an
802 incomplete "End of Central Directory" record. Original patch by Guilherme
803 Polo and Alan McIntyre.
804
Michael Foord77cd8aa2013-01-29 22:59:02 +0000805- Issue #15505: `unittest.installHandler` no longer assumes SIGINT handler is
806 set to a callable object.
807
Serhiy Storchakac12dcd22013-02-08 11:21:32 +0200808- Issue #17051: Fix a memory leak in os.path.isdir() on Windows. Patch by
Serhiy Storchaka46f5b352013-01-28 20:19:50 +0200809 Robert Xiao.
810
Serhiy Storchakab09ec9b2013-01-25 13:31:05 +0200811- Issue #13454: Fix a crash when deleting an iterator created by itertools.tee()
812 if all other iterators were very advanced before.
813
Benjamin Peterson08e153a2013-01-18 00:10:24 -0500814- Issue #16992: On Windows in signal.set_wakeup_fd, validate the file
815 descriptor argument.
816
Serhiy Storchakae39ba042013-01-15 18:01:21 +0200817- Issue #15861: tkinter now correctly works with lists and tuples containing
818 strings with whitespaces, backslashes or unbalanced braces.
819
Richard Oudkerk90b5d922013-01-14 23:09:14 +0000820- Issue #10527: Use poll() instead of select() for multiprocessing pipes.
821
Serhiy Storchaka80a9fd72013-01-15 00:29:51 +0200822- Issue #9720: zipfile now writes correct local headers for files larger than
823 4 GiB.
824
Ezio Melotti5c4e32b2013-01-11 08:32:01 +0200825- Issue #13899: \A, \Z, and \B now correctly match the A, Z, and B literals
826 when used inside character classes (e.g. '[\A]'). Patch by Matthew Barnett.
827
Raymond Hettinger2cdb6432013-01-12 00:05:00 -0800828- Issue #16398: Optimize deque.rotate() so that it only moves pointers
829 and doesn't touch the underlying data with increfs and decrefs.
830
R David Murray32851d62013-01-10 21:10:40 -0500831- Issue #15109: Fix regression in sqlite3's iterdump method where it would
832 die with an encoding error if the database contained string values
833 containing non-ASCII. (Regression was introduced by fix for 9750).
834
R David Murrayd6186842013-01-10 11:30:51 -0500835- Issue #15545: Fix regression in sqlite3's iterdump method where it was
836 failing if the connection used a row factory (such as sqlite3.Row) that
837 produced unsortable objects. (Regression was introduced by fix for 9750).
838
Nadeem Vawda895cc222013-01-02 22:59:51 +0100839- Issue #16828: Fix error incorrectly raised by bz2.compress(''). Patch by
840 Martin Packman.
841
Richard Oudkerk7450a812013-01-01 17:25:09 +0000842- Issue #9586: Redefine SEM_FAILED on MacOSX to keep compiler happy.
843
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +0200844- Issue #10527: make multiprocessing use poll() instead of select() if available.
Giampaolo Rodola'cef20062012-12-31 17:23:09 +0100845
Serhiy Storchakadbaac372013-01-02 11:56:58 +0200846- Issue #16485: Now file descriptors are closed if file header patching failed
847 on closing an aifc file.
Serhiy Storchaka4ed797e2012-12-29 22:25:59 +0200848
Antoine Pitrou40f12ab2012-12-28 19:03:43 +0100849- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
850 when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
851
Senthil Kumaran1974baa2012-12-24 13:56:54 -0800852- Issue #16713: Fix the parsing of tel url with params using urlparse module.
853
Andrew Svetlov1c6c90f2012-12-23 20:09:01 +0200854- Issue #16443: Add docstrings to regular expression match objects.
855 Patch by Anton Kasyanov.
856
Petri Lehtinenab7dd182012-12-20 21:06:14 +0200857- Issue #8853: Allow port to be of type long for socket.getaddrinfo().
858
Benjamin Peterson92014422012-12-20 12:55:52 -0600859- Issue #16597: In buffered and text IO, call close() on the underlying stream
860 if invoking flush() fails.
861
Senthil Kumaranf8a6b002012-12-23 09:00:47 -0800862- Issue #15701: Fix HTTPError info method call to return the headers information.
863
Giampaolo Rodola'c2a81692012-12-17 14:30:48 +0100864- Issue #16646: ftplib.FTP.makeport() might lose socket error details.
865 (patch by Serhiy Storchaka)
866
Antoine Pitrou124ee8b2012-12-16 13:55:47 +0100867- Issue #16626: Fix infinite recursion in glob.glob() on Windows when the
868 pattern contains a wildcard in the drive or UNC path. Patch by Serhiy
869 Storchaka.
870
Antoine Pitrou4113d2b2012-12-15 19:11:54 +0100871- Issue #16298: In HTTPResponse.read(), close the socket when there is no
872 Content-Length and the incoming stream is finished. Patch by Eran
873 Rundstein.
874
Antoine Pitrou7dddec42012-12-09 14:46:18 +0100875- Issue #16248: Disable code execution from the user's home directory by
876 tkinter when the -E flag is passed to Python. Patch by Zachary Ware.
877
Antoine Pitrou8eeda722012-12-08 11:05:50 +0100878- Issue #16628: Fix a memory leak in ctypes.resize().
879
Éric Araujo2320fa02012-12-08 22:26:57 -0500880- Issue #13614: Fix setup.py register failure with invalid rst in description.
881 Patch by Julien Courteau and Pierre Paul Lefebvre.
882
Antoine Pitroub83575b2012-12-02 12:52:36 +0100883- Issue #10182: The re module doesn't truncate indices to 32 bits anymore.
884 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
885
Benjamin Peterson256aaf72012-11-29 10:57:01 -0500886- Issue #16573: In 2to3, treat enumerate() like a consuming call, so superfluous
887 list() calls aren't added to filter(), map(), and zip() which are directly
888 passed enumerate().
889
Antoine Pitroub83ea142012-11-20 22:30:42 +0100890- Issue #1160: Fix compiling large regular expressions on UCS2 builds.
891 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
892
Ezio Melotti9e949722012-11-18 13:18:06 +0200893- Issue #14313: zipfile now raises NotImplementedError when the compression
894 type is unknown.
895
Antoine Pitrou02512fb2012-11-17 23:56:53 +0100896- Issue #16408: Fix file descriptors not being closed in error conditions
897 in the zipfile module. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
898
Gregory P. Smith9d3b6e92012-11-10 22:49:03 -0800899- Issue #16327: The subprocess module no longer leaks file descriptors
900 used for stdin/stdout/stderr pipes to the child when fork() fails.
901
Gregory P. Smithf2705ae2012-11-10 21:13:20 -0800902- Issue #14396: Handle the odd rare case of waitpid returning 0 when not
903 expected in subprocess.Popen.wait().
904
Nadeem Vawda3c309702012-11-11 03:14:56 +0100905- Issue #16411: Fix a bug where zlib.decompressobj().flush() might try to access
906 previously-freed memory. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
907
Nadeem Vawda252f4dc2012-11-11 02:14:15 +0100908- Issue #16350: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now accumulates data from
Nadeem Vawda6cad3712012-11-05 00:55:06 +0100909 successive calls after EOF in unused_data, instead of only saving the argument
Nadeem Vawda252f4dc2012-11-11 02:14:15 +0100910 to the last call. decompressobj().flush() now correctly sets unused_data and
911 unconsumed_tail. A bug in the handling of MemoryError when setting the
912 unconsumed_tail attribute has also been fixed. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
Nadeem Vawda6cad3712012-11-05 00:55:06 +0100913
Ezio Melottief317382012-11-03 20:31:12 +0200914- Issue #12759: sre_parse now raises a proper error when the name of the group
915 is missing. Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
916
Ezio Melotti7d24b162012-11-03 17:30:51 +0200917- Issue #16152: fix tokenize to ignore whitespace at the end of the code when
918 no newline is found. Patch by Ned Batchelder.
919
Antoine Pitrou0552fc22012-11-01 20:13:54 +0100920- Issue #16230: Fix a crash in select.select() when one the lists changes
921 size while iterated on. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
922
Antoine Pitroue9e35c32012-11-01 20:07:40 +0100923- Issue #16228: Fix a crash in the json module where a list changes size
924 while it is being encoded. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
925
Petri Lehtinen5c89c192012-10-29 21:16:57 +0200926- Issue #14897: Enhance error messages of struct.pack and
927 struct.pack_into. Patch by Matti Mäki.
928
R David Murray54eed2e2012-10-27 14:42:36 -0400929- Issue #12890: cgitb no longer prints spurious <p> tags in text
930 mode when the logdir option is specified.
931
Nadeem Vawda45dba1d2012-10-21 23:09:08 +0200932- Issue #14398: Fix size truncation and overflow bugs in the bz2 module.
933
Nadeem Vawdadd72b3f2012-10-21 18:15:05 +0200934- Issue #5148: Ignore 'U' in mode given to gzip.open() and gzip.GzipFile().
935
Antoine Pitroue97a24d2012-10-21 14:09:05 +0200936- Issue #16220: wsgiref now always calls close() on an iterable response.
937 Patch by Brent Tubbs.
938
Jesus Ceaf34e4de2012-11-17 03:38:17 +0100939- Issue #16461: Wave library should be able to deal with 4GB wav files,
940 and sample rate of 44100 Hz.
941
Brian Curtinc1924ab2012-10-11 16:16:50 -0500942- Issue #16176: Properly identify Windows 8 via platform.platform()
943
Gregory P. Smith0798cbc2012-09-29 12:02:48 -0700944- Issue #15756: subprocess.poll() now properly handles errno.ECHILD to
945 return a returncode of 0 when the child has already exited or cannot
946 be waited on.
947
Michael Foordbf2ad342012-09-28 12:54:56 +0100948- Issue #12376: Pass on parameters in TextTestResult.__init__ super call
949
Petri Lehtinena4fd0dc2012-09-25 21:57:59 +0300950- Issue #15222: Insert blank line after each message in mbox mailboxes
951
Senthil Kumarand41dc7c2012-09-25 02:48:21 -0700952- Issue #16013: Fix CSV Reader parsing issue with ending quote characters.
953 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
954
Ezio Melotticadff702012-09-21 17:26:35 +0300955- Issue #15421: fix an OverflowError in Calendar.itermonthdates() after
956 datetime.MAXYEAR. Patch by Cédric Krier.
957
Ezio Melotti6d6fb3a2012-09-19 08:11:03 +0300958- Issue #15970: xml.etree.ElementTree now serializes correctly the empty HTML
959 elements 'meta' and 'param'.
960
Jesus Cea8b54d6d2012-09-10 00:22:39 +0200961- Issue #15676: Now "mmap" check for empty files before doing the
962 offset check. Patch by Steven Willis.
963
Antoine Pitroue299cae2012-09-07 23:49:07 +0200964- Issue #15340: Fix importing the random module when /dev/urandom cannot
965 be opened. This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch.
966
Antoine Pitrouc5eec0e2012-09-05 20:11:49 +0200967- Issue #15841: The readable(), writable() and seekable() methods of
968 io.BytesIO and io.StringIO objects now raise ValueError when the object has
969 been closed. Patch by Alessandro Moura.
970
Jesus Cea3e94e142012-10-04 15:06:57 +0200971- Issue #16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to
972 /usr/bin/file. Patch by David Benjamin.
973
R David Murray20101872012-08-31 23:15:28 -0400974- Issue #12776,#11839: call argparse type function (specified by add_argument)
975 only once. Before, the type function was called twice in the case where the
976 default was specified and the argument was given as well. This was
977 especially problematic for the FileType type, as a default file would always
978 be opened, even if a file argument was specified on the command line.
979
Barry Warsaw03fcfbe2012-09-11 21:06:29 -0400980- Issue #15906: Fix a regression in argparse caused by the preceding change,
981 when action='append', type='str' and default=[].
982
Ronald Oussorena00b1002012-08-25 11:18:48 +0200983- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is
984 compiled using the clang compiler
985
Mark Dickinson088cec32012-08-24 20:06:30 +0100986- Issue #15544: Fix Decimal.__float__ to work with payload-carrying NaNs.
987
Petri Lehtinen4efdc092012-08-20 21:05:56 +0300988- Issue #15199: Fix JavaScript's default MIME type to application/javascript.
989 Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
990
Mark Dickinson2de4be22012-08-18 12:31:34 +0100991- Issue #15477: In cmath and math modules, add workaround for platforms whose
992 system-supplied log1p function doesn't respect signs of zeros.
993
Petri Lehtinen2d44cee2012-08-15 14:22:46 +0300994- Issue #11062: Fix adding a message from file to Babyl mailbox.
995
Richard Oudkerkfaee75c2012-08-14 11:41:19 +0100996- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using
997 multiprocessing on Windows without the "if __name__ == '__main__'"
998 idiom.
999
Brian Curtina9391052012-08-09 23:04:42 -05001000- Issue #15567: Fix NameError when running threading._test
1001
Meador Inge2d639d52012-08-10 22:05:45 -05001002- Issue #15424: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for array objects.
1003 Patch by Ludwig Hähne.
1004
Antoine Pitrou1fa9f7b2012-08-02 20:37:12 +02001005- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the getnameinfo() / getaddrinfo()
1006 emulation code. Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
1007
Andrew Svetlov2d968482012-07-30 20:04:53 +03001008- Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue
1009 for tkinter SimpleDialog.
1010
Antoine Pitroubaee34c2012-07-30 00:01:06 +02001011- Issue #15489: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for BytesIO objects.
1012 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1013
Jesus Cead4e58dc2012-08-03 14:48:23 +02001014- Issue #15469: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for deque objects.
1015 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1016
Antoine Pitroubff5df02012-07-29 19:02:46 +02001017- Issue #15487: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for buffered I/O objects.
1018 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1019
Jesus Cea3e3192d2012-08-03 14:25:53 +02001020- Issue #15512: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for parser.
1021 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1022
Meador Inge87c5b942012-07-23 09:27:00 -05001023- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused sys.getsizeof to
1024 return incorrect results for struct.Struct instances has been fixed.
1025 Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1026
R David Murray0f111c12012-07-22 21:55:12 -04001027- Issue #15232: when mangle_from is True, email.Generator now correctly mangles
R David Murray70098452012-07-24 14:24:42 -04001028 lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or epilog.
R David Murray0f111c12012-07-22 21:55:12 -04001029
R David Murray68f555c2012-07-21 22:54:34 -04001030- Issue #13922: argparse no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear
1031 after the first one.
1032
R David Murray056c31f2012-07-21 22:35:00 -04001033- Issue #12353: argparse now correctly handles null argument values.
1034
Meador Inge25be3f62012-07-18 23:51:05 -05001035- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields
1036 of type ctypes.c_uint32 and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
1037
Gregory P. Smithe0c22202012-07-15 22:16:06 -07001038- Issue #14635: telnetlib will use poll() rather than select() when possible
1039 to avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.
1040
Antoine Pitrouc2ec9922012-07-06 18:48:24 +02001041- Issue #15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor
1042 pointing to a directory.
1043
Mark Dickinsone0afb722012-06-30 17:19:35 +01001044- Issue #14591: Fix bug in Random.jumpahead that could produce an invalid
1045 Mersenne Twister state on 64-bit machines.
1046
Petri Lehtinend07de402012-06-29 15:09:12 +03001047- Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox
1048 files on flush().
1049
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd958cc92012-06-29 01:42:46 +02001050- Issue #15219: Fix a reference leak when hashlib.new() is called with
1051 invalid parameters.
1052
Petri Lehtinen45f0d982012-06-28 13:48:17 +03001053- Issue #9559: If messages were only added, a new file is no longer
1054 created and renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an
1055 mbox, MMDF or Babyl mailbox.
1056
Alexander Belopolskye99d3a12012-06-21 20:57:39 -04001057- Issue #14653: email.utils.mktime_tz() no longer relies on system
1058 mktime() when timezone offest is supplied.
1059
Richard Oudkerke4b99382012-07-27 14:05:46 +01001060- Issue #6056: Make multiprocessing use setblocking(True) on the
1061 sockets it uses. Original patch by J Derek Wilson.
1062
Richard Oudkerk4215d272012-06-18 15:37:31 +01001063- Issue #15101: Make pool finalizer avoid joining current thread.
1064
Meador Inge43f42fc2012-06-16 21:05:50 -05001065- Issue #15054: A bug in tokenize.tokenize that caused string literals
1066 with 'b' and 'br' prefixes to be incorrectly tokenized has been fixed.
1067 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1068
Petri Lehtinen48ee6902012-06-18 10:42:05 +03001069- Issue #15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done
1070 between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox,
1071 MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes.
Petri Lehtinen7cf66992012-06-15 20:50:51 +03001072
Richard Oudkerk926f58d2012-06-11 15:11:35 +01001073- Issue #10133: Make multiprocessing deallocate buffer if socket read
1074 fails. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1075
Richard Oudkerk2182e052012-06-06 19:01:14 +01001076- Issue #13854: Make multiprocessing properly handle non-integer
1077 non-string argument to SystemExit.
1078
Richard Oudkerkd44a4a22012-06-06 17:52:18 +01001079- Issue #12157: Make pool.map() empty iterables correctly. Initial
1080 patch by mouad.
1081
Senthil Kumaran37484dc2012-05-24 21:54:34 +08001082- Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
1083 not go in illegal range and returns None.
1084
Antoine Pitroucd8799f2012-05-23 23:16:14 +02001085- Issue #14888: Fix misbehaviour of the _md5 module when called on data
1086 larger than 2**32 bytes.
1087
Jesus Cea03a9d2a2012-09-10 21:04:42 +02001088- Issue #15908: Fix misbehaviour of the sha1 module when called on data
1089 larger than 2**32 bytes.
1090
Jesus Cea3fb774e2012-09-10 21:39:07 +02001091- Issue #15910: Fix misbehaviour of _md5 and sha1 modules when "updating"
1092 on data larger than 2**32 bytes.
1093
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -06001094- Issue #14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json module.
1095
Ned Deily77e77a12012-05-19 23:35:05 -07001096- Issue #14572: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of
1097 sqlite3, such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
1098
Senthil Kumaranf439a362012-05-20 12:02:44 +08001099- Issue #14426: Correct the Date format in Expires attribute of Set-Cookie
1100 Header in Cookie.py.
1101
Senthil Kumaran618802d2012-05-19 16:52:21 +08001102- Issue #14721: Send proper header, Content-length: 0 when the body is an empty
1103 string ''. Initial Patch contributed by Arve Knudsen.
1104
Ezio Melotti6d9c1b12012-05-19 17:12:17 +03001105- Issue #14072: Fix parsing of 'tel' URIs in urlparse by making the check for
1106 ports stricter.
1107
Senthil Kumaranea24dda2012-05-19 08:10:40 +08001108- Issue #9374: Generic parsing of query and fragment portions of url for any
1109 scheme. Supported both by RFC3986 and RFC2396.
1110
Petri Lehtinen280e9f72012-05-18 21:51:11 +03001111- Issue #14798: Fix the functions in pyclbr to raise an ImportError
1112 when the first part of a dotted name is not a package. Patch by
1113 Xavier de Gaye.
1114
R David Murray69493922012-05-16 14:01:03 -04001115- Issue #14832: fixed the order of the argument references in the error
1116 message produced by unittest's assertItemsEqual.
1117
Antoine Pitrou38fbd792012-05-16 15:01:40 +02001118- Issue #14829: Fix bisect issues under 64-bit Windows.
1119
Ned Deily724a55c2012-05-15 18:05:57 -07001120- Issue #14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when
1121 accessing the Tk clipboard. Modify clipboad_get() to first request type
1122 UTF8_STRING when no specific type is requested in an X11 windowing
1123 environment, falling back to the current default type STRING if that fails.
1124 Original patch by Thomas Kluyver.
1125
Senthil Kumaran6a2a6c22012-05-15 22:24:10 +08001126- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field with HTTP Basic
1127 Authentation in urllib2.
1128
Ned Deilyacdc56d2012-05-10 17:45:49 -07001129- Issue #14662: Prevent shutil failures on OS X when destination does not
1130 support chflag operations. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
1131
Antoine Pitrouc2b714c2012-05-10 20:17:46 +02001132- Issue #14157: Fix time.strptime failing without a year on February 29th.
1133 Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
1134
Jesus Ceaf2011e32012-05-10 05:01:11 +02001135- Issue #14768: os.path.expanduser('~/a') doesn't works correctly when HOME is '/'.
1136
Senthil Kumaran7f6d4e12012-05-01 10:36:28 +08001137- Issue #13183: Fix pdb skipping frames after hitting a breakpoint and running
1138 step. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
1139
Antoine Pitrou38153162012-04-25 17:31:12 +02001140- Issue #14664: It is now possible to use @unittest.skip{If,Unless} on a
1141 test class that doesn't inherit from TestCase (i.e. a mixin).
1142
Lars Gustäbel231d4742012-04-24 22:42:08 +02001143- Issue #14160: TarFile.extractfile() failed to resolve symbolic links when
1144 the links were not located in an archive subdirectory.
1145
R David Murrayc313b1d2012-04-23 13:27:11 -04001146- Issue #14638: pydoc now treats non-string __name__ values as if they
1147 were missing, instead of raising an error.
1148
Senthil Kumaran4c20c4e2012-04-23 23:52:40 +08001149- Issue #13684: Fix httplib tunnel issue of infinite loops for certain sites
1150 which send EOF without trailing \r\n.
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -06001151
Antoine Pitrou52849bf2012-04-19 23:55:01 +02001152- Issue #14308: Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is in the threading
1153 module's active list after a fork().
1154
Ezio Melottic45868e2012-04-18 19:08:41 -06001155- Issue #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain
1156 a bare '/'.
1157
Vinay Sajip7e9c9d52012-04-16 14:38:23 +01001158- Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
1159
Mark Dickinson0407e962012-04-15 16:43:19 +01001160- Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
1161 to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.
1162
R David Murray9955ad42012-04-13 21:27:00 -04001163- Issue #14399: zipfile now recognizes that the archive has been modified even
1164 if only the comment is changed. As a consequence of this fix, ZipFile is now
1165 a new style class.
R David Murray3f4ccba2012-04-12 18:42:47 -04001166
Antoine Pitroufa1d8412012-04-09 00:47:24 +02001167- Issue #7978: SocketServer now restarts the select() call when EINTR is
1168 returned. This avoids crashing the server loop when a signal is received.
1169 Patch by Jerzy Kozera.
1170
Giampaolo Rodola'96cb5d12012-03-22 16:06:43 +01001171- Issue #10340: asyncore - properly handle EINVAL in dispatcher constructor on
1172 OSX; avoid to call handle_connect in case of a disconnected socket which
1173 was not meant to connect.
1174
R David Murrayb3f95d72012-03-21 15:02:30 -04001175- Issue #12757: Fix the skipping of doctests when python is run with -OO so
1176 that it works in unittest's verbose mode as well as non-verbose mode.
1177
Giampaolo Rodola'3d3cf482012-03-20 16:46:57 +01001178- Issue #13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
1179 attribute.
1180
Senthil Kumaran51a65c92012-03-16 01:07:16 -07001181- Issue #10484: Fix the CGIHTTPServer's PATH_INFO handling problem.
1182
Senthil Kumaran4c592112012-03-15 13:24:40 -07001183- Issue #11199: Fix the with urllib which hangs on particular ftp urls.
1184
Antoine Pitrouf60845b2012-03-11 19:29:12 +01001185- Issue #14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under
1186 Windows when the child process has already exited.
1187
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06001188- Issue #14195: An issue that caused weakref.WeakSet instances to incorrectly
1189 return True for a WeakSet instance 'a' in both 'a < a' and 'a > a' has been
1190 fixed.
1191
1192- Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak sets to return a better approximation
1193 when some objects are dead or dying. Moreover, the implementation is now
1194 O(1) rather than O(n).
1195
1196- Issue #2945: Make the distutils upload command aware of bdist_rpm products.
1197
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06001198- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
1199 on Windows.
1200
Chris Withers2cc0b072012-11-09 15:48:17 +00001201- Issue #16441: Avoid excessive memory usage working with large gzip
1202 files using the gzip module.
1203
Ned Deilyec8f8f72013-01-09 22:04:35 -08001204- Issue #15782: Prevent compile errors of OS X Carbon modules _Fm, _Qd, and
1205 _Qdoffs when compiling with an SDK of 10.7 or later. The OS X APIs they
1206 wrap have long been deprecated and have now been removed with 10.7.
1207 These modules were already empty for 64-bit builds and have been removed
1208 in Python 3.
1209
Christian Heimes8112ea22012-09-24 13:17:08 +02001210Extension Modules
1211-----------------
1212
doko@ubuntu.com4950a3b2013-03-19 14:46:29 -07001213- Issue #17477: Update the bsddb module to pybsddb 5.3.0, supporting
1214 db-5.x, and dropping support for db-4.1 and db-4.2.
1215
Gregory P. Smith46ce27a2013-03-18 16:58:50 -07001216- Issue #17192: Update the ctypes module's libffi to v3.0.13. This
1217 specifically addresses a stack misalignment issue on x86 and issues on
1218 some more recent platforms.
1219
Gregory P. Smitha06ad5b2013-02-01 13:07:27 -08001220- Issue #12268: The io module file object write methods no longer abort early
1221 when a write system calls is interrupted (EINTR).
Gregory P. Smitha998ad02013-02-01 13:02:59 -08001222
Gregory P. Smith0d68ab32012-11-27 10:19:29 -08001223- Fix the leak of a dict in the time module when used in an embedded
1224 interpreter that is repeatedly initialized and shutdown and reinitialized.
1225
Gregory P. Smith99716162012-10-12 13:02:06 -07001226- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read or readall methods
1227 no longer lose data when an underlying read system call is interrupted
1228 within an io module object. IOError is no longer raised due to a read
1229 system call returning EINTR from within these methods.
1230
Christian Heimes8112ea22012-09-24 13:17:08 +02001231- Issue #16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's UseForeignDTD()
1232 method doesn't require an argument again.
1233
Ned Deily18fae3f2013-01-31 01:24:55 -08001234- Issue #13590: OS X Xcode 4 - improve support for universal extension modules
1235 In particular, fix extension module build failures when trying to use
1236 32-bit-only installer Pythons on systems with Xcode 4 (currently
1237 OS X 10.8, 10.7, and optionally 10.6).
1238 * Backport 3.3.0 fixes to 2.7 branch (for release in 2.7.4)
1239 * Since Xcode 4 removes ppc support, extension module builds now
1240 check for ppc compiler support and by default remove ppc and
1241 ppc64 archs when they are not available.
1242 * Extension module builds now revert to using system installed
1243 headers and libs (/usr and /System/Library) if the SDK used
1244 to build the interpreter is not installed or has moved.
1245 * Try to avoid building extension modules with deprecated
1246 and problematic Apple llvm-gcc compiler. If original compiler
1247 is not available, use clang instead by default.
1248
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001249IDLE
1250----
1251
1252- IDLE was displaying spurious SystemExit tracebacks when running scripts
1253 that terminated by raising SystemExit (i.e. unittest and turtledemo).
1254
1255- Issue #9290: In IDLE the sys.std* streams now implement io.TextIOBase
1256 interface and support all mandatory methods and properties.
1257
1258- Issue #16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are spaces or other
1259 special characters in the file path.
1260
1261- Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for unicode literals.
1262
1263- Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by
1264 Roger Serwy.
1265
1266- Issue #1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu
1267 Patch by Todd Rovito.
1268
1269- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
1270 ended with '\'. Patch by Roger Serwy.
1271
1272- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
1273 Patch by Roger Serwy.
1274
1275- Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and byte
1276 literals currently supported in Python 2.7.
1277
1278- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
1279 options. Patch by Roger Serwy.
1280
1281- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
1282
1283- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes IDLE.
1284 Original patch by Roger Serwy.
1285
1286- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing
1287 even when parent window is closed. Patch by Roger Serwy.
1288
1289- Issue #14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration.
1290 Patch by Roger Serwy.
1291
1292- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
1293 when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
1294 has to use the built-in default key bindings.
1295 There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
1296
1297- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
1298 (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
1299
1300- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
1301
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +02001302Tests
1303-----
1304
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001305- Issue #16702: test_urllib2_localnet tests now correctly ignores proxies for
1306 localhost tests.
1307
1308- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
1309 scripts found in the Tools directory.
1310
Ezio Melottie015b6b2013-03-16 20:04:44 +02001311- Issue #11420: make test suite pass with -B/DONTWRITEBYTECODE set.
1312 Initial patch by Thomas Wouters.
1313
Serhiy Storchaka2556c832013-03-14 20:59:09 +02001314- Issue #17299: Add test coverage for cPickle with file objects and general IO
1315 objects. Original patch by Aman Shah.
1316
Ezio Melottiefaad092013-03-11 00:34:33 +02001317- Issue #11963: remove human verification from test_parser and test_subprocess.
1318
Ezio Melotti2fddfd82013-02-23 05:45:37 +02001319- Issue #17249: convert a test in test_capi to use unittest and reap threads.
1320
R David Murraya5e7f8f2013-02-09 12:53:29 -05001321- We now run both test_email.py and test_email_renamed.py when running the
1322 test_email regression test. test_email_renamed contains some tests that
1323 test_email does not.
1324
Serhiy Storchaka72121c62013-01-27 19:45:49 +02001325- Issue #17041: Fix testing when Python is configured with the
1326 --without-doc-strings option.
1327
Serhiy Storchaka8cd7f822013-01-11 11:59:59 +02001328- Issue #15539: Added regression tests for Tools/scripts/pindent.py.
1329
Chris Jerdonek3684c792012-12-27 18:14:01 -08001330- Issue #15324: Fix regrtest parsing of --fromfile and --randomize options.
1331
Hynek Schlawack4a5a4c22012-12-27 10:24:21 +01001332- Issue #16618: Add more regression tests for glob.
1333 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1334
Hynek Schlawack646c7b52012-12-16 12:30:57 +01001335- Issue #16664: Add regression tests for glob's behaviour concerning entries
1336 starting with a ".". Patch by Sebastian Kreft.
1337
Victor Stinner8c7c6972012-12-04 10:07:16 +01001338- Issue #15747: ZFS always returns EOPNOTSUPP when attempting to set the
1339 UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected
1340 tests in test_posix.py to account for this.
1341
Ezio Melottid8feba92012-11-29 02:14:52 +02001342- Issue #16549: Add tests for json.tools. Initial patch by Berker Peksag
1343 and Serhiy Storchaka.
1344
Ezio Melotti282d3312012-11-26 19:22:58 +02001345- Issue #16559: Add more tests for the json module, including some from the
1346 official test suite at json.org. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1347
Trent Nelsone9992292012-10-26 22:21:46 -04001348- Issue #16274: Fix test_asyncore on Solaris. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
1349
Petri Lehtinen9ad6a562012-10-23 14:39:34 +03001350- Issue #15040: Close files in mailbox tests for PyPy compatibility.
1351 Original patch by Matti Picus.
1352
Petri Lehtinen80f45532012-09-01 14:25:48 +03001353- Issue #15802: Fix test logic in TestMaildir.test_create_tmp. Patch
1354 by Serhiy Storchaka.
1355
Trent Nelsonda4277a2012-08-29 09:20:41 -04001356- Issue #15765: Extend a previous fix to Solaris and OpenBSD for quirky
1357 getcwd() behaviour (issue #9185) to NetBSD as well.
1358
Antoine Pitrou0e3a4c82012-08-18 20:51:05 +02001359- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the json module's handling of invalid
1360 input data. Patch by Kushal Das.
1361
Brian Curtinbc77d362012-08-13 17:26:48 -05001362- Issue #15496: Add directory removal helpers for tests on Windows.
1363 Patch by Jeremy Kloth.
1364
Nick Coghlana0933122012-06-17 19:03:39 +10001365- Issue #15043: test_gdb is now skipped entirely if gdb security settings
1366 block loading of the gdb hooks
1367
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +02001368- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
1369 a test failure in test_ssl.
1370
Ned Deilycc23cc62013-02-02 15:06:45 -08001371- Issue #16698: Skip posix test_getgroups when built with OS X
1372 deployment target prior to 10.6.
1373
Ned Deilyaa1e1a22013-02-11 22:10:59 -08001374- Issue #17111: Prevent test_surrogates (test_fileio) failure on OS X 10.4.
1375
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +02001376Build
1377-----
1378
Martin v. Loewis18613e62013-03-22 22:01:56 +01001379- Issue #17425: Build against openssl 0.9.8y on Windows.
1380
Ezio Melotti617e2c12013-03-11 09:14:09 +02001381- Issue #16004: Add `make touch`.
1382
Petri Lehtinenc23178b2013-02-23 17:05:28 +01001383- Issue #5033: Fix building of the sqlite3 extension module when the
1384 SQLite library version has "beta" in it. Patch by Andreas Pelme.
1385
Benjamin Peterson8e830a02013-02-20 16:54:30 -05001386- Issue #17228: Fix building without pymalloc.
1387
doko@python.orgd65e2ba2013-01-31 23:52:03 +01001388- Issue #17086: Backport the patches from the 3.3 branch to cross-build
1389 the package.
1390
doko@python.orgfa3f9a32013-01-25 15:32:31 +01001391- Issue #3754: fix typo in pthread AC_CACHE_VAL.
1392
doko@python.org4e63fbe2013-01-25 13:08:27 +01001393- Issue #17029: Let h2py search the multiarch system include directory.
1394
Charles-François Natalia41cf292013-01-19 12:15:56 +01001395- Issue #16953: Fix socket module compilation on platforms with
1396 HAVE_BROKEN_POLL. Patch by Jeffrey Armstrong.
1397
Charles-François Natalibe2b9072013-01-08 19:47:00 +01001398- Issue #16836: Enable IPv6 support even if IPv6 is disabled on the build host.
1399
Ezio Melottic820de52012-09-30 22:41:37 +03001400- Issue #15923: fix a mistake in asdl_c.py that resulted in a TypeError after
1401 2801bf875a24 (see #15801).
1402
doko@ubuntu.com3d2fc152012-09-21 13:51:40 +02001403- Issue #11715: Fix multiarch detection without having Debian development
1404 tools (dpkg-dev) installed.
1405
Trent Nelsonf6407a12012-08-30 14:56:13 +00001406- Issue #15819: Make sure we can build Python out-of-tree from a readonly
1407 source directory. (Somewhat related to Issue #9860.)
1408
Ned Deily10fc1042012-09-08 18:47:27 -07001409- Issue #15822: Ensure 2to3 grammar pickles are properly installed.
Ned Deily8622f092012-08-22 23:26:06 -07001410
Ned Deily67028042012-08-05 14:42:45 -07001411- Issue #15560: Fix building _sqlite3 extension on OS X with an SDK.
1412
Martin v. Löwis33f8c3a2012-08-01 10:05:27 +02001413- Issue #8847: Disable COMDAT folding in Windows PGO builds.
1414
Ned Deilyd8ec4642012-07-30 04:07:49 -07001415- Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.
1416
Ned Deilyacf7b952013-02-01 13:58:00 -08001417- Issue #16256: OS X installer now sets correct permissions for doc directory.
1418
Martin v. Löwised11a5d2012-05-20 10:42:17 +02001419- Issue #8767: Restore building with --disable-unicode.
1420 Patch by Stefano Taschini.
1421
Martin v. Löwisfd0afed2012-05-15 17:26:31 +02001422- Build against bzip2 1.0.6 and openssl 0.9.8x on Windows.
1423
Charles-François Natali0d3db3a2012-04-12 19:11:54 +02001424- Issue #14557: Fix extensions build on HP-UX. Patch by Adi Roiban.
1425
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +02001426- Issue #14437: Fix building the _io module under Cygwin.
1427
Ned Deily6e7da152013-02-01 23:10:56 -08001428- Issue #15587: Enable Tk high-resolution text rendering on Macs with
1429 Retina displays. Applies to Tkinter apps, such as IDLE, on OS X
1430 framework builds linked with Cocoa Tk 8.5.
1431
Ned Deilyed1e4382013-02-08 22:51:52 -08001432- Issue #17161: make install now also installs a python2 and python man page.
1433
Ned Deilyeec152d2013-03-04 14:31:04 -08001434- Issue #16848: python-config now returns proper --ldflags values for OS X
1435 framework builds.
1436
Ezio Melottidc118792012-11-09 11:46:19 +01001437Tools/Demos
1438-----------
1439
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001440- Issue #17156: pygettext.py now correctly escapes non-ascii characters.
1441
Serhiy Storchaka8cd7f822013-01-11 11:59:59 +02001442- Issue #15539: Fix a number of bugs in Tools/scripts/pindent.py. Now
1443 pindent.py works with a "with" statement. pindent.py no longer produces
1444 improper indentation. pindent.py now works with continued lines broken after
1445 "class" or "def" keywords and with continuations at the start of line.
1446
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001447- Issue #16476: Fix json.tool to avoid including trailing whitespace.
1448
Ezio Melottidc118792012-11-09 11:46:19 +01001449- Issue #13301: use ast.literal_eval() instead of eval() in Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py
1450 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1451
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +03001452Documentation
Senthil Kumaran0c472c32012-07-22 19:36:03 -07001453-------------
Terry Jan Reedy45ed0122012-07-08 17:35:26 -04001454
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001455- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
1456
Terry Jan Reedy0b2173a2013-03-14 19:32:22 -04001457- Issue #17412: update 2.7 Doc/make.bat to also use sphinx-1.0.7.
1458
Terry Jan Reedy21e52aa2013-03-12 02:19:09 -04001459- Issue #17047: remove doubled words in docs and docstrings
Terry Jan Reedyf9d31062013-03-12 01:26:28 -04001460 reported by Serhiy Storchaka and Matthew Barnett.
1461
Chris Jerdonek2277b942013-02-27 09:55:39 -08001462- Issue #16406: combine the pages for uploading and registering to PyPI.
1463
Petri Lehtinenfead3c82013-02-23 21:05:27 +01001464- Issue #16403: Document how distutils uses the maintainer field in
1465 PKG-INFO. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
1466
Petri Lehtinen23427842013-02-23 19:53:03 +01001467- Issue #16695: Document how glob handles filenames starting with a
1468 dot. Initial patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
1469
Petri Lehtinen0b785032013-02-23 19:24:08 +01001470- Issue #8890: Stop advertising an insecure practice by replacing uses
1471 of the /tmp directory with better alternatives in the documentation.
1472 Patch by Geoff Wilson.
1473
Chris Jerdonek13cee162013-02-21 18:52:12 -08001474- Issue #17203: add long option names to unittest discovery docs.
1475
Ezio Melotti58abc5b2013-01-05 00:49:48 +02001476- Issue #13094: add "Why do lambdas defined in a loop with different values
1477 all return the same result?" programming FAQ.
1478
Brian Curtinbc453ca2012-12-17 00:17:49 -06001479- Issue #14901: Update portions of the Windows FAQ.
1480 Patch by Ashish Nitin Patil.
1481
Chris Jerdonek8da82682012-11-29 19:03:37 -08001482- Issue #15990: Improve argument/parameter documentation.
1483
Chris Jerdonek08012312012-11-14 12:36:53 -08001484- Issue #16400: Update the description of which versions of a given package
1485 PyPI displays.
1486
Nadeem Vawda04050b82012-11-11 13:52:10 +01001487- Issue #15677: Document that zlib and gzip accept a compression level of 0 to
1488 mean 'no compression'. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1489
Ezio Melotti3d072062012-10-27 22:04:56 +03001490- Issue #8040: added a version switcher to the documentation. Patch by
1491 Yury Selivanov.
1492
Chris Jerdonek1906c0c2012-10-08 23:18:17 -07001493- Issue #16115: Improve subprocess.Popen() documentation around args, shell,
1494 and executable arguments.
1495
Ezio Melotti31a9e832012-10-02 05:34:38 +03001496- Issue #15979: Improve timeit documentation.
1497
Chris Jerdonek71d74b02012-09-30 21:07:56 -07001498- Issue #16036: Improve documentation of built-in int()'s signature and
1499 arguments.
1500
Barry Warsaw0dea9362012-09-25 10:32:53 -04001501- Issue #15935: Clarification of argparse docs, re: add_argument() type and
1502 default arguments. Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
1503
Petri Lehtinenf9e1f112012-09-01 07:27:58 +03001504- Issue #13769: Document the effect of ensure_ascii to the return type
1505 of JSON decoding functions.
1506
Hynek Schlawack7d978902012-08-28 12:33:46 +02001507- Issue #14880: Fix kwargs notation in csv.reader, .writer & .register_dialect.
1508 Patch by Chris Rebert.
1509
Antoine Pitrouf3e0a692012-08-24 19:46:17 +02001510- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the json module's standard compliance.
1511 Patch by Chris Rebert.
1512
Senthil Kumaran2f76f732012-08-12 11:58:53 -07001513- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial. Patch by
1514 Daniel Ellis.
1515
Terry Jan Reedy45ed0122012-07-08 17:35:26 -04001516- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
1517 execfile().
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +03001518
1519- Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial.
1520
Senthil Kumaran0c472c32012-07-22 19:36:03 -07001521- Issue #15250: Document that filecmp.dircmp compares files shallowly. Patch
1522 contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
1523
Ned Deily7045f052013-02-02 00:14:44 -08001524- Issue #15116: Remove references to appscript as it is no longer being
1525 supported.
1526
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06001527
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -07001528What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 2?
1529===============================================
1530
Benjamin Petersonee933ec2012-03-15 12:25:54 -05001531*Release date: 2012-03-17*
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -07001532
1533Library
1534-------
1535
1536- Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash
1537 table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a
1538 denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with some
1539 modifications by the expat project.
1540
1541
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06001542What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 1?
1543===============================================
1544
1545*Release date: 2012-02-23*
1546
1547Core and Builtins
1548-----------------
1549
Antoine Pitrouc66ed452012-02-15 02:51:43 +01001550- Issue #13020: Fix a reference leak when allocating a structsequence object
1551 fails. Patch by Suman Saha.
1552
Barry Warsaw1e13eb02012-02-20 20:42:21 -05001553- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: add -R command-line option and PYTHONHASHSEED
1554 environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of
1555 service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types. Patch
1556 by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
1557
Antoine Pitroud1c818a2012-01-24 17:44:06 +01001558- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
1559 modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.
1560
Jason R. Coombs042370e2011-12-26 10:15:15 -05001561- Issue #11638: Unicode strings in 'name' and 'version' no longer cause
1562 UnicodeDecodeErrors.
1563
Antoine Pitrou5b4b2da2011-12-15 14:15:31 +01001564- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
1565 effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for
1566 noticing.
1567
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4bf21e22011-12-07 21:46:48 +01001568- Issue #13546: Fixed an overflow issue that could crash the intepreter when
1569 calling sys.setrecursionlimit((1<<31)-1).
1570
Antoine Pitrou30402542011-11-15 01:49:40 +01001571- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
1572 already accepts them).
1573
Petri Lehtinen8028dc22011-10-30 20:59:10 +02001574- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
1575 setobject.c.
1576
Benjamin Peterson0c0d7562011-10-27 08:21:59 -04001577- Issue #13268: Fix the assert statement when a tuple is passed as the message.
1578
Petri Lehtinen8ffbab82011-10-24 20:59:29 +03001579- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
1580 Patch by Suman Saha.
1581
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +08001582- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
1583 warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
1584
Mark Hammond323b5da2011-10-17 11:05:36 +11001585- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
1586 longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
1587 embedded situations.
1588
Benjamin Petersona7b09762011-10-15 13:43:21 -04001589- Issue #13186: Fix __delitem__ on old-style instances when invoked through
1590 PySequence_DelItem.
1591
Charles-François Natali40ab0022011-10-12 22:29:09 +02001592- Issue #13156: Revert the patch for issue #10517 (reset TLS upon fork()),
1593 which was only relevant for the native pthread TLS implementation.
1594
Victor Stinner63c22fa2011-09-23 19:37:03 +02001595- Issue #7732: Fix a crash on importing a module if a directory has the same
1596 name than a Python module (e.g. "__init__.py"): don't close the file twice.
1597
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +01001598- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that invoked undefined behaviour in
1599 int.__pow__. These overflow checks were causing int.__pow__ to produce
1600 incorrect results with recent versions of Clang, as a result of the
Mark Dickinsona96b0d12011-09-24 09:01:16 +01001601 compiler optimizing the check away. Also fix similar overflow checks
1602 in list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These
1603 bugs caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +01001604
Ezio Melotti15d6b652011-08-15 09:22:24 +03001605- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
1606 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
1607
Benjamin Peterson6c18ff02011-07-22 10:41:44 -05001608- Issues #12610 and #12609: Verify that user generated AST has correct string
1609 and identifier types before compiling.
1610
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001611- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
1612 non-exception class.
Benjamin Petersonc3349cd2011-07-15 14:15:40 -05001613
Antoine Pitrou16166452011-07-12 22:04:20 +02001614- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionnary gets
1615 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
1616 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
1617 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
1618 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
1619
Florent Xiclunaa1f948b2012-01-24 21:05:10 +01001620- Issue #12501: Remove Py3k warning for callable. callable() is supported
1621 again in Python 3.2.
Victor Stinnerba8b3a22011-07-08 02:07:45 +02001622
Victor Stinner59729ff2011-07-05 11:28:19 +02001623- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read(), FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write() and
1624 os.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
1625
Victor Stinnerd3c7e172011-05-30 23:49:13 +02001626- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02001627 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
1628 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
1629
Łukasz Langa7a153902011-10-18 17:16:00 +02001630- Issue #10860: httplib now correctly handles an empty port after port
1631 delimiter in URLs.
1632
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001633- dict_proxy objects now display their contents rather than just the class
1634 name.
Raymond Hettingerbf7a2662011-06-30 00:44:36 +01001635
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02001636Library
1637-------
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +02001638
Petri Lehtinen4ab701b2012-02-21 13:58:40 +02001639- Issue #8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions
1640 on 32-bit architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer.
1641
Ezio Melotti36b73612012-02-21 09:22:16 +02001642- HTMLParser is now able to handle slashes in the start tag.
1643
Charles-François Natali66f3cc62012-02-18 14:15:38 +01001644- Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in
1645 SimpleXMLRPCServer upon malformed POST request.
1646
Gregory P. Smith14dc5102012-02-16 00:44:50 -08001647- Issue #2489: pty.spawn could consume 100% cpu when it encountered an EOF.
1648
Antoine Pitroudd7e0712012-02-15 22:25:27 +01001649- Issue #13014: Fix a possible reference leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
1650
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +02001651- Issue #13987: HTMLParser is now able to handle EOFs in the middle of a
Ezio Melotti65d36da2012-02-15 13:19:10 +02001652 construct and malformed start tags.
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +02001653
Antoine Pitrouc39cd782012-02-15 02:42:46 +01001654- Issue #13015: Fix a possible reference leak in defaultdict.__repr__.
1655 Patch by Suman Saha.
1656
Meador Ingeff337cc2012-02-13 22:22:06 -06001657- Issue #13979: A bug in ctypes.util.find_library that caused
1658 the wrong library name to be returned has been fixed.
1659
Éric Araujoe897a742012-02-15 16:28:20 +01001660- Issue #1326113: distutils' build_ext command --libraries option now
1661 correctly parses multiple values separated by whitespace or commas.
1662
Ezio Melottif1174432012-02-13 16:28:54 +02001663- Issue #13993: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken end tags.
1664
Ezio Melotti4b92cc32012-02-13 16:10:44 +02001665- Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments.
1666
Petri Lehtinen587209f2012-02-12 21:03:02 +02001667- Issue #9750: Fix sqlite3.Connection.iterdump on tables and fields
1668 with a name that is a keyword or contains quotes. Patch by Marko
1669 Kohtala.
1670
Florent Xiclunac2279652012-02-12 14:49:03 +01001671- Issue #13994: Earlier partial revert of Distutils enhancements in 2.7
Ned Deilyc47a4592012-02-11 20:40:24 +01001672 has left two versions of customize_compiler, the original in
1673 distutils.sysconfig and another copy in distutils.ccompiler, with some
1674 parts of distutils calling one and others using the other.
1675 Complete the revert back to only having one in distutils.sysconfig as
1676 is the case in 3.x.
1677
Ned Deily0d0ea482012-02-10 12:59:06 +01001678- Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
1679 Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
1680 Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
1681 64-bit/32-bit Pythons. If the user does not explicitly override
1682 the default C compiler by setting the CC environment variable,
1683 Distutils will now attempt to compile extension modules with clang
1684 if gcc-4.2 is required but not found. Also as a convenience, if
1685 the user does explicitly set CC, substitute its value as the default
1686 compiler in the Distutils LDSHARED configuration variable for OS X.
1687 (Note, the python.org 32-bit-only Pythons use gcc-4.0 and the 10.4u
1688 SDK, neither of which are available in Xcode 4. This change does not
1689 attempt to override settings to support their use with Xcode 4.)
1690
Senthil Kumaran59e7c8f2012-02-09 18:22:01 +08001691- Issue #9021: Add an introduction to the copy module documentation.
1692
Senthil Kumaran607e31e2012-02-09 17:43:31 +08001693- Issue #6005: Examples in the socket library documentation use sendall, where
1694 relevant, instead send method.
1695
Petri Lehtinenc7fd5232011-05-09 12:24:09 +02001696- Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
1697 raise a ProgrammingError now.
1698
Petri Lehtinen0518f472012-02-01 22:20:12 +02001699- Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
1700
Antoine Pitrou88c51e82012-01-28 22:01:59 +01001701- Issue #13806: The size check in audioop decompression functions was too
1702 strict and could reject valid compressed data. Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
1703
Antoine Pitroud358e052012-01-27 09:42:45 +01001704- Issue #13885: CVE-2011-3389: the _ssl module would always disable the CBC
1705 IV attack countermeasure.
1706
Senthil Kumaranb05f91d2012-01-21 11:45:12 +08001707- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
1708
Nadeem Vawdad7664de2012-01-19 00:40:46 +02001709- Issue #13781: Prevent gzip.GzipFile from using the dummy filename provided by
1710 file objects opened with os.fdopen().
1711
Antoine Pitrou3b6a3142012-01-17 17:13:04 +01001712- Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module.
1713 Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
1714
Jesus Cea4a8ba192012-01-18 03:51:38 +01001715- Issue #13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness
1716 in the directory name.
1717
Senthil Kumaranbcd833f2012-01-11 00:09:24 +08001718- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
1719 Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto and Michele Orrù.
1720
Antoine Pitroud76088d2012-01-03 22:46:48 +01001721- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
1722 (except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
1723
Senthil Kumaran84c18aa2011-12-23 11:14:56 +08001724- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
1725
Lars Gustäbel7d4d0742011-12-21 19:27:50 +01001726- Issue #13639: Accept unicode filenames in tarfile.open(mode="w|gz").
1727
Antoine Pitroub8572a12011-12-21 10:16:14 +01001728- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
1729
Antoine Pitrou7a3d8ae2011-12-18 19:27:45 +01001730- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances. Patch by
1731 Cédric Krier.
1732
Charles-François Natali41616302011-12-18 18:22:24 +01001733- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
1734 condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
1735
Charles-François Natalif3d35f02011-12-18 15:52:48 +01001736- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
1737 redirection or an error.
1738
Lars Gustäbel9a388632011-12-06 13:07:09 +01001739- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
1740 other than 900k.
1741
Raymond Hettingerf5377022011-12-11 22:31:09 -08001742- Issue #13573: The csv.writer now uses the repr() for floats rather than str().
1743 This allows floats to round-trip without loss of precision.
1744
Petri Lehtinen49e49a22011-12-02 21:09:30 +02001745- Issue #13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.
1746
Antoine Pitroua5d5bb92011-11-25 21:28:15 +01001747- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
1748 seed for filename generation in the tempfile module. Patch by Brian
1749 Harring.
1750
Antoine Pitrouaa1c9672011-11-23 01:39:19 +01001751- Issue #13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a
1752 certificate with a subjectAltName. Patch by Robert Xiao.
1753
Victor Stinner53853c32011-11-22 22:20:13 +01001754- Issue #13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.
1755
Antoine Pitrou5aa7df32011-11-21 20:16:44 +01001756- Issue #13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
1757 raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would block.
1758 Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise BlockingIOError, but
1759 RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when the call would block.
1760 Patch by sbt.
1761
Ezio Melotti00dc60b2011-11-18 18:00:40 +02001762- Issue #13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.
1763
Ezio Melotti93bbb6a2011-11-18 17:30:28 +02001764- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
1765 node when it is the only child of an element. Initial patch by Dan
1766 Kenigsberg.
1767
Ezio Melotti0f1571c2011-11-14 18:04:05 +02001768- Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
1769 handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.
1770
Antoine Pitrou6a570d62011-11-10 00:33:50 +01001771- Issue #13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
1772 when called with a timeout. Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.
1773
Petri Lehtinen416ecff2011-11-05 10:18:50 +02001774- Issue #3067: Enhance the documentation and docstring of
1775 locale.setlocale().
1776
Petri Lehtinen49aa72e2011-11-05 09:50:37 +02001777- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
1778 are read correctly.
1779
Florent Xicluna5f761d72011-11-04 10:15:57 +01001780- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
1781
Florent Xiclunac4a11bd2011-11-01 23:47:46 +01001782- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
1783
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +02001784- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
1785 ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
1786
1787- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
Senthil Kumaran87e58552011-11-01 02:44:45 +08001788 when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
1789
Florent Xicluna67d5d0e2011-10-29 03:38:56 +02001790- Issue #7334: close source files on ElementTree.parse and iterparse.
1791
Vinay Sajipc515eba2011-10-24 23:26:00 +01001792- Issue #13232: logging: Improved logging of exceptions in the presence of
1793 multiple encodings.
1794
Charles-François Natali46f990e2011-10-24 18:43:51 +02001795- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
1796 before all tasks have completed.
1797
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +02001798- Issue #1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
1799 arguments with the system default encoding just like the write() method
Éric Araujob21f51a2011-10-23 04:37:51 +02001800 does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer. This also fixes handling of
1801 unicode input in the shlex module (#6988, #1170).
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +02001802
Florent Xicluna47fb1922011-10-20 23:21:58 +02001803- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
1804
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +08001805- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
1806 semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
1807
Senthil Kumaranddd40312011-10-20 01:38:35 +08001808- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
1809 earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
1810
Nadeem Vawdadeb1ce72011-10-17 19:33:38 +02001811- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
1812 now available on Windows.
1813
Éric Araujo017e5352011-10-09 07:11:19 +02001814- Issue #13114: Fix the distutils commands check and register when the
1815 long description is a Unicode string with non-ASCII characters.
1816
Ned Deilybd9d07c2011-10-06 14:29:49 -07001817- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
1818 contents cannot be read.
1819
1820- Issue #7425: Prevent pydoc -k failures due to module import errors.
1821 (Backport to 2.7 of existing 3.x fix)
1822
Antoine Pitrouace2ccf2011-10-04 13:38:04 +02001823- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
1824 Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
1825
Antoine Pitrou561a8212011-10-04 09:34:48 +02001826- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
1827 metaclass is registered with copy_reg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and
1828 Craig Citro.
1829
Charles-François Natali564f8902011-09-29 19:43:01 +02001830- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
1831 Thomas Jarosch.
1832
Victor Stinner51b71982011-09-23 01:15:32 +02001833- Issue #12931: xmlrpclib now encodes Unicode URI to ISO-8859-1, instead of
1834 failing with a UnicodeDecodeError.
1835
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +02001836- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files will now correctly report
1837 Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or Download-URL field is
1838 present.
1839
Éric Araujo0f2dbf32011-09-03 00:47:07 +02001840- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
1841 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02001842
Lars Gustäbel8babfdf2011-09-05 17:04:18 +02001843- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
1844 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
1845 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
1846 information was lost.
1847
Éric Araujo429b8902011-08-30 01:48:59 +02001848- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
1849 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
1850
Charles-François Natalifda7b372011-08-28 16:22:33 +02001851- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
1852 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
1853
Nadeem Vawdabbabbae2011-08-28 11:23:57 +02001854- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
1855 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
1856
Charles-François Natali2a34eb32011-08-25 21:20:54 +02001857- Issue #12786: Set communication pipes used by subprocess.Popen CLOEXEC to
1858 avoid them being inherited by other subprocesses.
1859
Antoine Pitrou77657e42011-08-24 22:41:05 +02001860- Issue #4106: Fix occasional exceptions printed out by multiprocessing on
1861 interpreter shutdown.
1862
Antoine Pitroua1a8da82011-08-23 19:54:20 +02001863- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
1864 Pipe.
1865
Antoine Pitrou808cec52011-08-20 15:40:58 +02001866- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
1867 could appear on io.BufferedRandom streams.
1868
Victor Stinneracacbaa2011-08-20 14:02:38 +02001869- Issue #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python
1870 is compiled on Linux 3.
1871
Jesus Cead256ca12011-09-19 16:57:18 +02001872- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
1873
Éric Araujoe7329f42011-08-19 03:07:39 +02001874- Issue #9173: Let shutil._make_archive work if the logger argument is None.
1875
Charles-François Natalib02302c2011-08-18 17:18:28 +02001876- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
1877 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
1878
Barry Warsaw39935f42011-08-15 19:50:35 -04001879- Issue #12752: Fix regression which prevented locale.normalize() from
1880 accepting unicode strings.
1881
Senthil Kumaranf432aec2011-08-03 18:31:59 +08001882- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
1883 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
1884
Éric Araujo33af2632011-08-02 03:16:12 +02001885- Issue #11933: Fix incorrect mtime comparison in distutils.
1886
Éric Araujo560bf852011-07-31 02:04:00 +02001887- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
1888 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
1889
Éric Araujo9a528302011-07-29 17:34:35 +02001890- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
1891 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
1892
Charles-François Natali0cf7e252011-07-27 19:36:40 +02001893- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
1894
Raymond Hettinger55e5e272011-07-28 23:56:38 -07001895- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
1896 collections when it is done.
1897
Ross Lagerwalld8e39012011-07-27 18:54:53 +02001898- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
1899 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
1900
Ross Lagerwall528c4ad2011-07-25 07:23:58 +02001901- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
1902 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
1903
Charles-François Natali3de8c732011-07-24 22:33:35 +02001904- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
1905
Antoine Pitrou4cfae022011-07-24 02:51:01 +02001906- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup and setting/getting locales under Turkish
1907 locales.
1908
Nadeem Vawda0d2889f2011-07-23 16:13:01 +02001909- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib when using FTP.
Nadeem Vawdab42c53e2011-07-23 15:51:16 +02001910
Charles-François Natali97781b02011-07-22 23:43:42 +02001911- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
1912
Charles-François Natali4929eb92011-07-21 19:41:04 +02001913- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
1914
Antoine Pitrou495ee8f2011-07-20 00:26:23 +02001915- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
1916 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
1917 Linux 3.0.
1918
R David Murray95225952011-07-18 21:34:04 -04001919- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
1920 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
1921
Antoine Pitrou304f0f92011-07-15 21:22:50 +02001922- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
1923 Andreas Stührk.
1924
Charles-François Natali26591402011-07-14 19:49:02 +02001925- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
1926
Victor Stinnerbf547fd2011-07-13 21:47:31 +02001927- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
1928 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
1929
Victor Stinnere7901312011-07-05 14:08:01 +02001930- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
1931 if the process has only one pipe.
1932
Victor Stinner65c15352011-07-04 03:05:37 +02001933- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
1934 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
1935
Charles-François Natali414d0fa2011-07-02 13:56:19 +02001936- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
1937 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
1938
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -07001939- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
1940 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
1941 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
1942 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02001943 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -07001944 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
1945 still possible to globally override the default by setting
1946 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
1947 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
1948 was built.
1949
Raymond Hettinger2c316a32011-06-25 17:14:53 +02001950- Issue #11802: The cache in filecmp now has a maximum size of 100 so that
1951 it won't grow without bound.
1952
Ross Lagerwallffa8e2f2011-06-25 09:55:10 +02001953- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
1954 Kitada.
1955
R David Murrayf1138bb2011-06-17 22:23:04 -04001956- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
1957 times without error, and _ProxyFile now closes the wrapped file.
1958
Victor Stinnerc74a6ba2011-06-17 14:06:27 +02001959- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
1960 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
1961 written by Ezio Melotti.
1962
Benjamin Peterson0eb4ac42011-06-11 15:53:11 -05001963- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
1964 functions.
1965
R David Murray873c5832011-06-09 16:01:09 -04001966- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
1967
Brian Curtincaea7e82011-06-08 19:29:53 -05001968- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
1969 instead of os.stat.
1970
Mark Dickinsona493ca32011-06-04 18:24:15 +01001971- Issue #12080: Fix a performance issue in Decimal._power_exact that caused
1972 some corner-case Decimal.__pow__ calls to take an unreasonably long time.
1973
Raymond Hettinger45b08292011-06-02 20:40:35 -07001974- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
1975
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001976- sys.setcheckinterval() now updates the current ticker count as well as
1977 updating the check interval, so if the user decreases the check interval,
1978 the ticker doesn't have to wind down to zero from the old starting point
1979 before the new interval takes effect. And if the user increases the
1980 interval, it makes sure the new limit takes effect right away rather have an
1981 early task switch before recognizing the new interval.
Raymond Hettinger19b851d2011-06-01 18:21:42 -07001982
Victor Stinner776e69b2011-06-01 01:03:00 +02001983- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
1984 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
1985 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
1986
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001987Extension Modules
1988-----------------
1989
Meador Ingefe7aa492012-05-28 13:52:59 -05001990- Issue #9041: An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and
1991 ctypes.c_float that caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the
1992 case of overflow has been fixed.
1993
Jesus Cea23fbd8c2012-01-17 00:17:10 +01001994- bsddb module: Erratic behaviour of "DBEnv->rep_elect()" because a typo.
1995 Possible crash.
1996
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdee76e62012-01-13 22:53:25 +01001997- Issue #13774: json: Fix a SystemError when a bogus encoding is passed to
1998 json.loads().
1999
Charles-François Natali3aa59e32012-01-02 15:38:27 +01002000- Issue #9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
2001 Vilmos Nebehaj.
2002
Nadeem Vawda36248152011-10-13 13:52:46 +02002003- Issue #13159: FileIO, BZ2File, and the built-in file class now use a
2004 linear-time buffer growth strategy instead of a quadratic one.
2005
Charles-François Natali9ffcbf72011-10-06 19:09:45 +02002006- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
2007 would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
2008 writer got cleared by the GC.
2009
Meador Ingead349a12011-10-03 21:34:04 -05002010- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
2011
Meador Ingefe150032011-09-27 20:35:28 -05002012- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
2013 Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
2014
Jesus Ceac23484b2011-09-21 03:47:39 +02002015- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
2016 file descriptor was actually received.
2017
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc439c25e2011-09-12 20:12:09 +02002018- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
2019 object triggers the garbage collector.
2020
Jesus Cea6ebaca12011-09-10 04:35:18 +02002021- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
2022 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
2023
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccf316a12011-09-02 20:32:23 +02002024- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
2025 a string.
2026
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3d7f2362011-08-30 21:04:35 +02002027- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
2028 some functions like file.write().
2029
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04002030- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
2031 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
2032 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
2033
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03002034IDLE
2035----
2036
2037- Issue #964437 Make IDLE help window non-modal.
2038 Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
2039
2040- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
2041 module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
2042
2043- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
2044 Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
2045
2046- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint
2047 files, display a message popup and continue rather than crash.
2048 (original patch by Roger Serwy)
2049
2050- Issue #8793: Prevent IDLE crash when given strings with invalid hex escape
2051 sequences.
2052
2053- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
2054 (Patch by Roger Serwy)
2055
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07002056Build
2057-----
2058
Martin v. Löwisa1b2af82012-02-21 18:12:02 +01002059- Issue #6807: Run msisupport.mak earlier.
2060
Martin v. Löwisef281bd2012-02-21 17:07:32 +01002061- Issue #10580: Minor grammar change in Windows installer.
2062
Ned Deilyc5df5632012-02-19 02:19:12 +01002063- Issue #12627: Implement PEP 394 for Python 2.7 ("python2").
2064
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07002065- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
2066 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
2067 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
2068 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
2069
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -04002070Tools/Demos
2071-----------
2072
Nadeem Vawdaf00011a2012-02-22 11:40:09 +02002073- Issue #14053: patchcheck.py ("make patchcheck") now works with MQ patches.
2074 Patch by Francisco Martín Brugué.
2075
Gregory P. Smith12426992012-02-12 15:51:21 -08002076- Issue #13930: 2to3 is now able to write its converted output files to another
2077 directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
2078 suffix. See its new -o, -W and --add-suffix options. This makes it more
2079 useful in many automated code translation workflows.
2080
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -04002081- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
2082 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
2083
Victor Stinner99cff3f2011-12-19 13:59:58 +01002084- Issue #13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
2085 traceback if Python is optimized.
2086
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +02002087Tests
2088-----
2089
Martin v. Löwisc02e1e62012-07-29 16:30:50 +02002090- Issue #15467: Move helpers for __sizeof__ tests into test_support.
2091 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
2092
Petri Lehtinen437b1492012-02-17 21:34:41 +02002093- Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test.
2094 Initial patch by Torsten Landschoff.
2095
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03002096- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failures with OS X framework builds.
2097
2098- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
2099
Ned Deily1aacd7b2011-10-31 16:14:52 -07002100- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
2101 PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
2102
Barry Warsawbf0cafa2011-10-28 16:16:58 -04002103- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
2104
Charles-François Natalicdaafe02011-08-23 19:42:02 +02002105- Issue #12821: Fix test_fcntl failures on OpenBSD 5.
2106
Éric Araujo498da2c2011-07-31 17:59:28 +02002107- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
2108 Python.
2109
Ned Deily0ab67ee2011-07-13 15:05:31 -07002110- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
2111 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
2112
Antoine Pitrou4a4a0fe2011-07-09 02:34:05 +02002113- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
2114 failure in name resolution.
2115
Jesus Ceacb65f322011-11-08 16:06:44 +01002116- Issue #11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'
2117 in test_telnetlib.py.
2118
Jesus Cea71094b52011-11-08 15:54:42 +01002119- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
2120
Antoine Pitrou29603082011-07-08 19:40:15 +02002121- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
2122 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
2123 Web site.
2124
Antoine Pitroua4d58d22011-07-08 19:14:19 +02002125- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
2126 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
2127 is now skipped instead.
2128
Ned Deily46268c42011-07-03 21:52:35 -07002129- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
2130 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
2131 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
2132
Ned Deily63144c62011-06-28 00:39:19 -07002133- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that
2134 test_build_ext of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when
2135 run outside of a build directory.
2136
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07002137- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
2138 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
2139
Ned Deily64e59952011-06-27 23:09:31 -07002140- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
2141 on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
2142
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +02002143- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
2144 iso2022_kr).
2145
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +02002146Documentation
2147-------------
2148
Petri Lehtinena15a8d22012-03-01 21:28:00 +02002149- Issues #13491 and #13995: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation.
2150 Initial patch for #13491 by Johannes Vogel.
Petri Lehtinen002b2022012-02-16 21:42:34 +02002151
Petri Lehtinenfe6f9d02012-02-02 21:11:28 +02002152- Issue #13402: Document absoluteness of sys.executable.
2153
Brett Cannon64b2b6a2012-01-26 18:32:24 -05002154- Issue #13883: PYTHONCASEOK also works on OS X, OS/2, and RiscOS.
2155
Meador Ingeda747c32012-01-19 00:17:44 -06002156- Issue #2134: The tokenize documentation has been clarified to explain why
2157 all operator and delimiter tokens are treated as token.OP tokens.
2158
Meador Inge52957182011-12-03 12:13:42 -06002159- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
2160 io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
2161
Nick Coghlan86711572011-10-24 22:19:40 +10002162- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
2163 functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
2164
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +02002165- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for SocketServer examples.
2166
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02002167
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00002168What's New in Python 2.7.2?
2169===========================
2170
Benjamin Peterson9843ba52011-06-11 09:42:44 -05002171*Release date: 2011-06-11*
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -05002172
Benjamin Peterson43ee1a52011-06-10 11:32:52 -05002173Library
2174-------
2175
2176- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
2177
Benjamin Peterson4ba009d2011-05-31 18:59:49 -05002178Extension Modules
2179-----------------
2180
2181- Issue #1221: Make pyexpat.__version__ equal to the Python version.
2182
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -05002183
2184What's New in Python 2.7.2 release candidate 1?
2185===============================================
2186
Benjamin Petersoncd207052011-05-29 16:50:27 -05002187*Release date: 2011-05-29*
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00002188
2189Core and Builtins
2190-----------------
2191
Ned Deily482f9082011-05-28 00:11:54 -07002192- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
2193 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
2194 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
2195 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
2196
Benjamin Petersonef1122c2011-06-03 16:17:22 -05002197- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. This allows old-style classes to have
2198 __dir__. It also causes errors besides AttributeError found on lookup to be
2199 propagated.
Benjamin Peterson8de87a62011-05-23 16:11:05 -05002200
Victor Stinner2c585f62011-05-10 00:22:59 +02002201- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
2202 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
2203
Victor Stinner0a92d182011-05-03 15:09:24 +02002204- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
2205 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
2206 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
2207
Victor Stinner645b9f62011-05-03 15:06:11 +02002208- Issue #8651: Fix "z#" format of PyArg_Parse*() function: the size was not
2209 written if PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
2210
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +02002211- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
2212 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
2213 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner97cf5852011-05-01 23:51:11 +02002214 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +02002215
Antoine Pitrou1f9eb152011-04-27 19:26:06 +02002216- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
2217 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
2218 by Charles-François Natali.
2219
Ezio Melottie3685f62011-04-26 05:12:51 +03002220- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
2221 accepted too.
2222
Ezio Melottic283a852011-04-15 16:14:04 +03002223- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
2224 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
2225 chars (e.g. u"\U00012345"[0]).
2226
Victor Stinner5de51ac2011-04-09 16:09:08 +02002227- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
2228 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
2229 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
2230
Mark Dickinson874d59e2011-03-26 12:18:00 +00002231- Issue #11144: Ensure that int(a_float) returns an int whenever possible.
2232 Previously, there were some corner cases where a long was returned even
2233 though the result was within the range of an int.
2234
Antoine Pitrou2ddaaff2011-03-09 12:54:00 +01002235- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
2236 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
2237
Antoine Pitrou3013b162011-01-18 19:06:19 +00002238- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
2239 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2240
Benjamin Peterson9b911ca2011-01-12 15:49:47 +00002241- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
2242 class.
2243
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00002244- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
2245 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
2246 Patch by Matt Bandy.
2247
Raymond Hettinger57a86892011-01-25 21:43:29 +00002248- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
2249
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcac514c82011-01-03 00:50:57 +00002250- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
2251 can now handle dates after 2038.
2252
R. David Murray64a1e7c2010-12-15 01:36:03 +00002253- Issue #4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly
2254 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
2255 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
2256
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02002257- Issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
Jesus Cea44e81682011-04-20 16:39:15 +02002258 Patch by Torsten Becker.
2259
Benjamin Peterson07f54512010-12-11 04:25:57 +00002260- Issue #10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
2261
Mark Dickinsonecf8ec62010-12-04 12:30:41 +00002262- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
2263 float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be
2264 0.0, not -0.0.
2265
Eli Bendersky680e6eb2011-03-04 06:14:56 +00002266- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
2267 empty, instead of OverflowError.
2268
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00002269Library
2270-------
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00002271
Benjamin Peterson4fa68ab2011-05-26 09:56:41 -05002272- Issue #12161: Cause StringIO.getvalue() to raise a ValueError when used on a
2273 closed StringIO instance.
2274
Victor Stinnerdbfba162011-05-26 13:37:25 +02002275- Issue #12182: Fix pydoc.HTMLDoc.multicolumn() if Python uses the new (true)
2276 division (python -Qnew). Patch written by Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve.
2277
Victor Stinnerdaf17e92011-05-25 22:52:37 +02002278- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
2279
Victor Stinner5100a402011-05-25 22:15:36 +02002280- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
2281 if the file is closed.
2282
Charles-François Natalib94e0cd2011-05-24 23:10:54 +02002283- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, use makefile() to wrap the SSL socket to avoid
2284 heap fragmentation and MemoryError with some malloc implementations.
2285
Victor Stinner40b41e12011-05-24 22:29:13 +02002286- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
2287 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
2288 final argument is True.
2289
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02002290- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
2291 to be able to unload the module.
2292
Ronald Oussoren372954e2011-05-17 13:22:30 +02002293- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
2294 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
2295
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02002296- Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is
Ronald Oussoren53b6a5f2011-05-15 16:51:10 +02002297 set in shell.
2298
Nadeem Vawda0cc4fd92011-05-14 14:29:07 +02002299- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
2300 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
2301
Antoine Pitrouee46a7b2011-05-13 00:31:52 +02002302- Issue #12062: In the `io` module, fix a flushing bug when doing a certain
2303 type of I/O sequence on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading,
2304 seeking a bit forward, writing, then seeking before the previous write but
2305 still within buffered data, and writing again).
2306
Antoine Pitrou47d1d0d2011-05-10 19:16:03 +02002307- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
2308 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
2309
Victor Stinnerb1241f92011-05-10 01:52:03 +02002310- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
2311
Antoine Pitrou21ce8f02011-05-07 19:59:33 +02002312- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
2313 by Kasun Herath.
2314
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +02002315- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
R David Murray8b26c4b2011-05-06 21:56:22 -04002316 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
2317 previous value of the mtime.
2318
Ronald Oussoren58d6b1b2011-05-06 11:31:33 +02002319- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
2320 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
2321 for the case.
2322
Ezio Melottidf8a8f72011-05-04 14:40:53 +03002323- Issue #11982: fix json.loads('""') to return u'' rather than ''.
2324
Victor Stinner112d48a2011-05-03 14:36:36 +02002325- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
2326 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
2327
Senthil Kumaran011525e2011-04-28 15:30:31 +08002328- Issue #10761: Fix tarfile.extractall failure when symlinked files are
2329 present. Initial patch by Scott Leerssen.
2330
Ezio Melotti34b32d62011-04-27 09:45:46 +03002331- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
2332 strings are too long.
2333
Senthil Kumaran5dc68682011-04-26 21:17:45 +08002334- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
2335
Victor Stinner33feeab2011-04-18 16:33:28 +02002336- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
2337 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
2338 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
2339
Raymond Hettingere0156c42011-04-19 09:48:39 -07002340- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
2341 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
2342
Martin v. Löwis2d253dd2011-04-17 22:29:40 +02002343- Issue #11442: Add a charset parameter to the Content-type in SimpleHTTPServer
2344 to avoid XSS attacks.
2345
Senthil Kumaranddaea1c2011-04-15 18:07:33 +08002346- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
2347 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
2348
Raymond Hettinger37c0fe52011-04-15 13:12:21 -07002349- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
2350
Senthil Kumarana99b7612011-04-14 12:54:35 +08002351- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
2352 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
2353
Ezio Melotti2b96f092011-04-13 05:37:29 +03002354- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
2355 _json is not available.
2356
2357- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran0531d6f2011-04-13 09:47:20 +08002358 url contains #fragment.
2359
R David Murrayea8b6ef2011-04-12 21:00:26 -04002360- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
2361 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
2362
brian.curtin16f98b72011-04-11 18:05:33 -05002363- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
2364 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
2365
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03002366- Issue #4877: Fix a segfault in xml.parsers.expat while attempting to parse
2367 a closed file.
2368
Raymond Hettingere4579c32011-04-11 17:27:42 -07002369- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
2370 It was causing a failed import in the Turkish locale where the locale
2371 sensitive str.upper() method caused a name mismatch.
2372
Antoine Pitrou7dfc8742011-04-11 00:26:42 +02002373- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
2374 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
2375 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
2376
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03002377- Issue #7311: Fix HTMLParser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
Ezio Melotti9f1ffb22011-04-05 20:40:52 +03002378
Ross Lagerwall104c3f12011-04-05 15:24:34 +02002379- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
2380
guido@google.com2bc23b82011-03-24 10:44:17 -07002381- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
guido@google.comdb3080e2011-03-28 13:53:40 -07002382 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00002383
Benjamin Peterson77d46602011-03-28 17:32:31 -05002384- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
2385 arguments.
2386
Martin v. Löwis03f7e232011-03-27 20:58:52 +02002387- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
2388
Mark Dickinsond687be02011-03-27 16:15:24 +01002389- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
2390 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
2391
Mark Dickinson1829e8f2011-03-27 15:32:05 +01002392- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
2393 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
2394 documentation.
2395
Martin v. Löwis49b0ce02011-03-27 10:10:46 +02002396- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi.
2397
Raymond Hettinger9aa5a342011-03-25 16:00:13 -07002398- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
2399 that start with a leading underscore.
2400
Mark Dickinsonf9e9a6f2011-03-25 22:01:06 +00002401- Issue #11673: Fix multiprocessing Array and RawArray constructors to accept a
2402 size of type 'long', rather than only accepting 'int'.
2403
Éric Araujo374274d2011-03-19 04:29:36 +01002404- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
2405 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
2406
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04002407- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
2408 setup and teardown.
2409
Ronald Oussoren2ab59942011-03-16 09:47:15 -04002410- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
2411 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
2412 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
2413
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04002414- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
2415 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussoren1aa999c2011-03-14 18:53:59 -04002416
Mark Dickinson2c8c62e2011-03-12 11:05:32 +00002417- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when
2418 the context rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
2419
Ned Deily9d4836e2011-03-09 02:31:55 -08002420- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
2421 initialization fails.
2422
Antoine Pitroud6f3a3e2011-03-06 02:03:34 +01002423- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
2424 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
2425 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
2426
R. David Murray1a337902011-03-03 18:17:40 +00002427- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
2428 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
2429 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
2430
Giampaolo Rodolàd65224f2011-03-03 14:17:51 +00002431- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
2432 on accept(), send() and recv().
2433
Antoine Pitroud3f6ea12011-02-26 23:35:27 +00002434- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
2435 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
2436
Antoine Pitrou6439c002011-02-25 21:35:47 +00002437- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
2438 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
2439
Georg Brandl28046022011-02-25 11:01:04 +00002440- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
2441 argparse.
2442
Antoine Pitrouf4d2b3d2011-02-21 23:59:20 +00002443- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
2444 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
2445 32-bit Windows.
2446
Georg Brandl52f83952011-02-25 10:39:23 +00002447- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
2448 membership of non-weakrefable objects.
2449
2450- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
2451
2452- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
2453
Barry Warsaw42bb7ca2011-02-14 20:04:00 +00002454- Issue #11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix !=
2455 --exec-prefix, which caused Python to not start.
2456
R. David Murray008c0442011-02-11 23:03:13 +00002457- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
2458 a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
2459
Antoine Pitrou820021e2011-01-31 21:47:45 +00002460- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
2461 Patch by Stan Mihai.
2462
Vinay Sajipcdb83882011-01-21 23:35:57 +00002463- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
2464
Antoine Pitrou8a0eede2011-01-20 21:20:18 +00002465- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
2466 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2467
Antoine Pitrou63a3f152011-01-19 15:27:24 +00002468- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
2469 a symbol named FSTAT.
2470
Antoine Pitrou9989d852011-01-15 16:18:57 +00002471- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
2472 length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
2473 is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2474
Terry Reedyf7dd7992011-01-10 22:15:19 +00002475- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
2476
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00002477- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime
2478 function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
2479 false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range
2480 accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
2481 dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
2482 by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
2483
Georg Brandl6adb9792011-01-09 07:53:14 +00002484- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
2485 node twice.
2486
Antoine Pitrou1f1613f2011-01-06 18:30:26 +00002487- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
2488 on an existing file.
2489
Antoine Pitrou77c1b382011-01-06 17:19:05 +00002490- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
2491 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
2492
Antoine Pitrou91ce0d92011-01-03 18:45:09 +00002493- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
2494 file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
2495 patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2496
Antoine Pitroub0614612011-01-02 20:04:52 +00002497- Issue #4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
2498 DeprecationWarning.
2499
Raymond Hettinger8ebebd82011-01-02 01:03:26 +00002500- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
2501
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002502- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
Senthil Kumaran559395f2010-12-29 06:30:19 +00002503 variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's
2504 request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
2505 params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
2506
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002507- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
Terry Reedy0df73672010-12-28 19:53:32 +00002508
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002509- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murray08fc7012010-12-28 19:11:03 +00002510 browsers actually parse cookies.
2511
R. David Murray5360d002010-12-27 19:17:17 +00002512- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
2513 email.header.Header.encode.
2514
R. David Murray5874ed62010-12-26 22:29:53 +00002515- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
2516 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
2517 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
2518
Antoine Pitroufc9ead62010-12-21 21:26:55 +00002519- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
2520
Daniel Stutzbach57cf0af2011-01-04 18:47:17 +00002521- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
Michael Foorde6e0e262010-12-19 15:52:56 +00002522 about input.
2523
Michael Foorda17f0762010-12-19 14:53:19 +00002524- Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
2525
Antoine Pitroud7b6ac62010-12-18 18:18:21 +00002526- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
2527 to avoid denial of services from the other party.
2528
R. David Murray3f752ab2010-12-18 17:22:18 +00002529- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray7a697252010-12-18 03:52:09 +00002530 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
2531
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00002532- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
2533 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
2534
Senthil Kumaran5c7fd6e2010-12-17 04:56:02 +00002535- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
2536 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00002537
Antoine Pitrou47d9b0e2010-12-16 17:11:34 +00002538- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
2539 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2540
Éric Araujoe04c13c2010-12-15 21:15:25 +00002541- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
2542
R. David Murraydacb8042010-12-14 14:34:16 +00002543- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
2544 causes debug mode to fail.
2545
Antoine Pitrou4cb64ad2010-12-03 19:31:52 +00002546- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
2547 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
2548 current process.
2549
Éric Araujofb3de6b2010-12-03 19:24:49 +00002550- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
2551
R. David Murrayd75cc912010-12-02 03:16:23 +00002552- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
2553
Gregory P. Smith312efbc2010-12-14 15:02:53 +00002554- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
2555 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
2556 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
2557
Steven Bethardf8583ac2011-01-24 20:40:15 +00002558- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
2559 argparse.FileType.
2560
Steven Bethard3f69a052011-03-26 19:59:02 +01002561- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
2562
2563- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
2564
Steven Bethard5e0062d2011-03-26 21:50:38 +01002565- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
2566 their children.
2567
Steven Bethardbc3b1042011-03-27 13:57:55 +02002568- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
2569
Steven Betharde3c11b42011-04-04 01:47:52 +02002570- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
2571
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00002572Extension Modules
2573-----------------
2574
Benjamin Peterson6116d4a2011-05-17 18:31:20 -05002575- Stop using the old interface for providing methods and attributes in the _sre
2576 module. Among other things, this gives these classes ``__class__``
2577 attributes. (See #12099)
2578
Ezio Melotti0639be62011-05-07 19:21:22 +03002579- Issue #10169: Fix argument parsing in socket.sendto() to avoid error masking.
2580
Ezio Melottic1ec7b52011-05-11 00:55:35 +03002581- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
2582 objects using the C accelerations.
2583
Ezio Melotticec46492011-05-07 17:40:23 +03002584- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
2585 objects using the C accelerations.
2586
Benjamin Petersonf21ad922011-03-26 17:56:28 -05002587- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
2588 to an instance of the class.
2589
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00002590- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
2591
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03002592IDLE
2593----
2594
2595- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
2596 file in a package.
2597
2598- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
2599 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
2600
2601- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
2602 with Tk 8.5.
2603
2604- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
2605 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
2606 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
2607
2608- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
2609 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
2610 64-/32-bit installer variant.
2611
2612- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
2613 commands.
2614
2615- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
2616 Cocoa AquaTk.
2617
2618- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
2619
2620- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
2621
2622- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
2623 platforms).
2624
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00002625Build
2626-----
2627
Ned Deily22f63b52011-05-28 05:56:14 -07002628- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
2629 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
2630 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
2631
Thomas Wouters5edae7e2011-03-06 11:48:05 -08002632- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
2633
Georg Brandl94800df2011-02-25 11:09:02 +00002634- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
2635
2636- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
2637
Georg Brandl71f4fbb2011-02-25 11:04:50 +00002638- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
2639
Ned Deilye6cc7d62011-02-21 21:00:09 +00002640- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
2641 package had previously been installed.
2642
Ned Deily68adfdc2011-02-07 16:52:25 +00002643- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac
2644 OS X installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
2645
Ned Deily53c460d2011-01-30 01:43:40 +00002646- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
2647 the system-provided Python.
2648
2649- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X
2650 32-bit installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
2651 (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
2652 support enabled).
2653
Antoine Pitrou9828b562011-01-03 19:11:32 +00002654- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
2655
Antoine Pitrou31e85952011-01-03 18:57:14 +00002656- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
2657 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
2658
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00002659- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
2660 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
2661
David Malcolm4c29e1c2011-01-06 17:39:24 +00002662- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
2663 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
2664 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
2665 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
2666
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04002667- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
2668 using GCC 4.0.
2669
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00002670Tests
2671-----
2672
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03002673- Issue #11164: Remove obsolete allnodes test from minidom test.
2674
Ned Deilyc4f97f42011-05-29 02:36:17 -07002675- Issue #12205: Fix test_subprocess failure due to uninstalled test data.
2676
Ezio Melottie3992eb2011-05-14 06:24:53 +03002677- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
2678
Ezio Melotti5c5d7e22011-05-09 06:54:53 +03002679- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
2680
Nadeem Vawdabafc6a92011-04-19 01:35:58 +02002681- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
2682
Ross Lagerwallfe2f1ad2011-04-09 20:39:50 +02002683- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
2684 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
2685
Ned Deily5f511822011-04-05 17:16:09 -07002686- Issue #7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@'
2687 or '.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
2688
R David Murraycdd5fc92011-03-13 22:37:18 -04002689- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
2690 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
2691
Antoine Pitrou8bc59fa2011-01-12 18:56:09 +00002692- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
2693 by Ross Lagerwall.
2694
Antoine Pitrou8c688be2011-01-03 20:49:01 +00002695- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
2696 in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
2697 explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
2698
R. David Murrayf8a63912010-12-14 16:26:30 +00002699- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
2700 encountering them.
2701
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00002702- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
2703 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
2704
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00002705
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00002706What's New in Python 2.7.1?
2707===========================
2708
Benjamin Peterson3e0fa422010-11-27 14:40:29 +00002709*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00002710
2711Library
2712-------
2713
Éric Araujo54274ad2011-02-03 00:12:18 +00002714- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
2715
2716- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
2717
Raymond Hettinger061bf7a2010-11-30 03:15:35 +00002718- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
2719 inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
2720 iterator was undefined.
2721
Alexander Belopolsky1fea5c42010-11-30 01:18:17 +00002722- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
2723 ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
2724
Georg Brandl79f096a2010-11-26 07:57:57 +00002725- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
2726
Martin v. Löwise03c7782010-11-22 10:53:46 +00002727- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
2728
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00002729- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
2730
Senthil Kumaran9a5897b2010-11-29 12:41:03 +00002731- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
2732
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00002733- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
2734 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
2735
Georg Brandl86e0c892010-11-26 07:22:28 +00002736- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
2737 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
2738 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
2739
Senthil Kumaran0b7cac12010-11-22 05:04:33 +00002740- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
2741 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
2742
Éric Araujo4fadd532010-11-20 20:02:41 +00002743- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
2744
Georg Brandl839c1132010-11-20 11:29:38 +00002745- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
2746 is called without data.
2747
Benjamin Peterson4fec9ce2010-11-20 17:31:08 +00002748- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
2749 end of the file.
2750
Senthil Kumaran501bfd82010-11-14 03:31:52 +00002751- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
2752
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03002753IDLE
2754----
2755
2756- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
2757 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
2758
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00002759Build
2760-----
2761
Brian Curtin69a106a2010-11-22 02:08:49 +00002762- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
2763
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00002764- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
2765
Ezio Melotti2623a372010-11-21 13:34:58 +00002766Tests
2767-----
2768
2769- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
2770
Ezio Melottibf8484e2010-11-24 21:54:47 +00002771Documentation
2772-------------
2773
2774- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
2775
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00002776
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00002777What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
2778===============================================
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002779
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00002780*Release date: 2010-11-13*
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002781
2782Core and Builtins
2783-----------------
2784
Raymond Hettinger2ad17e12010-10-30 08:17:46 +00002785- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
2786 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
2787
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00002788- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
2789 ``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +00002790
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00002791- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
2792 length of the offending line.
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +00002793
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +00002794- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
2795 resolution.
2796
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +00002797- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
2798 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
2799
Jesus Cea33c722b2010-11-04 21:39:52 +00002800- Issue #9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
2801 warning.
2802
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +00002803- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
2804 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
2805
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +00002806- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
2807 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
2808 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
2809 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
2810
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +00002811- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
2812
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +00002813- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
2814 thread-local storage key.
2815
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00002816- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
2817 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
2818 the same behaviour than the print statement.
2819
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +00002820- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
2821 a memoryview object.
2822
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +00002823- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
2824
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +00002825- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
2826
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00002827- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
2828 of an array.
2829
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +00002830- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
2831
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +00002832- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
2833 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
2834
2835 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
2836 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
2837
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +00002838- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
2839 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002840
2841Library
2842-------
2843
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002844- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00002845
Antoine Pitrou7eaa4482010-11-09 23:15:18 +00002846- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
2847 Lorenzo M. Catucci.
2848
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00002849- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
2850 --enable-shared.
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00002851
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00002852- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
2853
2854- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
2855
2856- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
2857 not in build_clib.
2858
Éric Araujoe9954b52010-11-06 04:53:42 +00002859- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
2860 Arfrever.
2861
Éric Araujoe28665a2010-11-06 04:36:28 +00002862- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
2863
Éric Araujod1feff72010-11-06 04:06:18 +00002864- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
2865 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
2866
Antoine Pitrou6b1167c2010-11-05 19:55:02 +00002867- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
2868 its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
2869
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00002870- Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
2871 from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
Michael Foorde5dc24e2010-11-01 22:11:53 +00002872
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00002873- Issue #120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
2874
2875- Issue #6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
2876 EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
2877 instead.
Giampaolo Rodolà19e9fef2010-11-01 15:07:14 +00002878
Antoine Pitrou61d14b72010-10-31 16:17:36 +00002879- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
2880 as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2881
Antoine Pitrou3917c092010-10-31 13:12:48 +00002882- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
2883 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2884
Antoine Pitrou594a0462010-10-31 13:05:48 +00002885- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
2886 for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2887
Raymond Hettingercbba8d42010-10-30 07:29:44 +00002888- Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
2889
Antoine Pitrou638cee62010-10-28 14:50:57 +00002890- Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file
2891 object with custom buffering from two threads at once.
2892
Antoine Pitrou7f081022010-10-27 18:43:21 +00002893- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
2894 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
2895 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
2896
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +00002897- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
2898 initialization.
2899
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +00002900- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
2901 ntpath.relpath().
2902
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002903- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +00002904 debugging in doctests.
2905
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00002906- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
2907 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
2908
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +00002909- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
2910 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
2911
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +00002912- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
2913
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +00002914- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
2915
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +00002916- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
2917 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
2918
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +00002919- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
2920 gettext.
2921
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +00002922- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
2923 gname field.
2924
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +00002925- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
2926 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
2927
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +00002928- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
2929 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
2930
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +00002931- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
2932 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
2933 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
2934 with a timeout.
2935
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +00002936- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
2937
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +00002938- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
2939
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +00002940- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
2941
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +00002942- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
2943
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +00002944- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
2945 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
2946
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +00002947- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
2948 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
2949 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
2950 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
2951 by Andrew Bennetts.
2952
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +00002953- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
2954 values: d['x'] = d.
2955
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +00002956- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +00002957
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +00002958- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
2959 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
2960
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +00002961- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
2962 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
2963 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
2964 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
2965 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
2966 to zero.
2967
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00002968- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00002969 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00002970 value.
2971
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +00002972- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
2973 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
2974 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
2975 original error is re-raised.
2976
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +00002977- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
2978 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
2979 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
2980
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +00002981- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
2982 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
2983
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +00002984- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
2985 ConfigParser.write.
2986
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +00002987- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
2988 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
2989
Terry Reedyd2d2ae92010-11-11 23:22:19 +00002990- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
2991 can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
2992 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
2993
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +00002994- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
2995 falling into recursion.
2996
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +00002997- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
2998 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
2999
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +00003000- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
3001 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
3002
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00003003- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +00003004 error handling when accepting a new connection.
3005
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +00003006- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
3007 errors.
3008
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +00003009- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
3010
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +00003011- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
3012 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
3013
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +00003014- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
3015 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
3016
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00003017- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
3018 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
3019
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +00003020- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
3021 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
3022 overridden to provide ordered views.
3023
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +00003024- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
3025 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
3026 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
3027
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +00003028- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
3029 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
3030 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
3031
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +00003032- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
3033 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
3034 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
3035 patch by Jason V. Miller.
3036
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +00003037- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
3038 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
3039
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +00003040- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
3041 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
3042
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +00003043- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
3044 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
3045 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
3046
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +00003047- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
3048 current node.
3049
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +00003050- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
3051
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +00003052- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
3053 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
3054
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +00003055- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
3056 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
3057 behavior was wrong.
3058
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +00003059- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
3060
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +00003061- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
3062 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
3063
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +00003064- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
3065 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
3066 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
3067
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00003068- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
3069
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00003070- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
3071 the command line.
3072
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +00003073- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
3074 interactive browser.
3075
3076- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
3077 regular expressions.
3078
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +00003079- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
3080 data generated with the profile module.
3081
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +00003082- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
3083 entries, consider the first one.
3084
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +00003085- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
3086 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
3087
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +00003088- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
3089 in the top-level debugged frame.
3090
3091- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
3092 in doctests.
3093
3094- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
3095 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
3096
3097- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
3098 been reassigned.
3099
3100- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
3101 a breakpoint command.
3102
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +00003103- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
3104 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
3105
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +00003106- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
3107 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
3108
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +00003109- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
3110
3111- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
3112 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
3113
3114- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
3115 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
3116
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +00003117- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
3118
3119- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
3120
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +00003121- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
3122 across devices.
3123
3124- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
3125
3126- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
3127
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +00003128- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
3129 string when Unicode was previously output.
3130
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +00003131- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
3132 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
3133
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +00003134- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
3135 utf-16 incremental encoders.
3136
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +00003137- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
3138
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +00003139- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
3140 parameters.
3141
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +00003142- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
3143 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
3144 XML-RPC request.
3145
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +00003146- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
3147
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +00003148- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
3149 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
3150 options).
3151
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +00003152- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
3153
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +00003154- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
3155 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
3156 (Jan Hosang).
3157
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +00003158- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
3159
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +00003160- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
3161 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
3162 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
3163
3164- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
3165 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
3166 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
3167
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +00003168- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
3169 strings in add_option calls.
3170
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +00003171- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
3172
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +00003173- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00003174
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +00003175- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
3176
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00003177- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
3178 for tracing methods.
3179
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00003180Extension Modules
3181-----------------
3182
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +00003183- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
3184 with expat version 2.0.1.
3185
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00003186- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00003187 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00003188
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +00003189- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
3190 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3191
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +00003192- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
3193 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
3194
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00003195- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
3196 interpreter by default.
3197
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +00003198- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
3199 to prevent crashes.
3200
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +00003201- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
3202 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
3203 2**31 elements.
3204
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +00003205- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
3206
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +00003207- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
3208 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
3209
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +00003210- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
3211 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
3212
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +00003213- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
3214
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +00003215- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
3216
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +00003217- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
3218
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +00003219- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
3220 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
3221 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
3222 returns the same information as the id command.
3223
3224 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
3225
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +00003226- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
3227 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
3228 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
3229 char is unsigned.
3230
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +00003231- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
3232
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04003233
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00003234Tools/Demos
3235-----------
3236
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +00003237- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
3238
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00003239- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
3240 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
3241 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
3242
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00003243Build
3244-----
3245
Antoine Pitroue0c5f3c2010-10-27 20:35:26 +00003246- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
3247
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +00003248- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
3249 Akira Kitada.
3250
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +00003251- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
3252
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +00003253- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
3254
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +00003255- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
3256 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
3257
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +00003258- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
3259 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
3260
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +00003261- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
3262 Sablé.
3263
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +00003264- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
3265 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
3266 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +00003267
3268- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
3269 Sébastien Sablé.
3270
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00003271- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
3272
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003273- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
3274 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +00003275
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003276- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
3277 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
3278 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +00003279
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00003280- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
3281 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
3282 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
3283
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +00003284- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
3285 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00003286
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00003287Tests
3288-----
3289
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +00003290- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
3291 in test_os)
3292
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +00003293- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
3294
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00003295- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
3296 case when running profile or trace, for example.
3297
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00003298- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00003299
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +00003300- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
3301
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +00003302- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
3303
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00003304- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
3305
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +00003306- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
3307
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +00003308- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
3309 Michele Orrù.
3310
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00003311- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
3312
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +00003313- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
3314
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00003315Documentation
3316-------------
3317
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +00003318- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
3319 to Doc/license.rst.
3320
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +00003321- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
3322 with os.kill.
3323
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003324- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
3325 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +00003326
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003327- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00003328
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00003329
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00003330What's New in Python 2.7?
3331=========================
3332
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +00003333*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00003334
3335Core and Builtins
3336-----------------
3337
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +00003338- Prevent assignment to set literals.
3339
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00003340Library
3341-------
3342
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +00003343- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
3344 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
3345
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +00003346- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
3347
3348Extension Modules
3349-----------------
3350
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +00003351- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
3352 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00003353
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +00003354- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
3355 on an OpenSSL structure.
3356
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +00003357
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00003358What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
3359=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00003360
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +00003361*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00003362
3363Core and Builtins
3364-----------------
3365
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +00003366- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
3367
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +00003368- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
3369 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
3370 See tracker issue for details.
3371
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +00003372- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
3373 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
3374 (higher than 0x10000).
3375
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +00003376- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
3377 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +00003378
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +00003379Build
3380-----
3381
3382- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
3383
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00003384Library
3385-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00003386
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00003387- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +00003388 raises an exception.
3389
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +00003390- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
3391 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
3392 and after calling foreign functions.
3393
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +00003394- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
3395 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
3396
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00003397- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
3398 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
3399
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +00003400- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00003401
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00003402- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
3403 now honored in unittest debug methods.
3404
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +00003405Documentation
3406-------------
3407
3408- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
3409 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
3410
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00003411Misc
3412----
3413
3414- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
3415
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00003416
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +00003417What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
3418=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00003419
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +00003420*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00003421
3422Core and Builtins
3423-----------------
3424
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +00003425- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
3426 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
3427 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
3428 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
3429 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
3430 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
3431 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
3432
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00003433- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +00003434 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
3435 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
3436 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
3437 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00003438
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +00003439- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
3440 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
3441 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
3442 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
3443 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
3444 in sets or dicts.
3445
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +00003446- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
3447 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
3448 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
3449
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +00003450- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
3451 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
3452
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003453- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
3454 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +00003455
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003456- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
3457 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +00003458
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00003459- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +00003460 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
3461
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00003462C-API
3463-----
3464
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003465- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
3466 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
3467 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00003468 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
3469
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00003470Library
3471-------
3472
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +00003473- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
3474 reported as a skip rather than an error.
3475
3476- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
3477 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
3478 reports.
3479
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +00003480- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
3481
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +00003482- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
3483 accepted by the codecs module.
3484
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +00003485- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
3486
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +00003487- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
3488 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
3489
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +00003490- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
3491 mistake.
3492
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +00003493- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
3494 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
3495
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +00003496- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
3497 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
3498
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +00003499- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
3500 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +00003501
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +00003502- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
3503
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +00003504- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
3505
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +00003506- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
3507 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
3508 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +00003509
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00003510- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003511 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00003512
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +00003513- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
3514 of files without one.
3515
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003516- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +00003517 comparing to a non-mapping.
3518
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003519- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +00003520
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003521- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
3522 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +00003523
Ezio Melotti419e23c2013-08-17 16:56:09 +03003524- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST every time.
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +00003525
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003526- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
3527 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
3528 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +00003529
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00003530Extension Modules
3531-----------------
3532
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +00003533- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
3534 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
3535 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
3536
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +00003537- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
3538 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
3539
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00003540- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003541 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00003542
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00003543Tests
3544-----
3545
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +00003546- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
3547 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
3548
3549- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +00003550 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
3551
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +00003552- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
3553
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003554- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
3555 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
3556 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00003557
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +00003558Build
3559-----
3560
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +00003561- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
3562 releases.
3563
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00003564- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +00003565 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00003566
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +00003567Tools/Demos
3568-----------
3569
3570- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
3571
3572
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00003573What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
3574================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00003575
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +00003576*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00003577
3578Core and Builtins
3579-----------------
3580
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003581- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +00003582
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003583- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
3584 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
3585 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
3586 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
3587 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +00003588
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003589- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
3590 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +00003591
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +00003592- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
3593
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00003594- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003595 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00003596 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
3597 Charles-François Natali.
3598
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +00003599- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
3600 passed to bytearray.
3601
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003602- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +00003603
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003604- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +00003605
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003606- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
3607 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
3608 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +00003609
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00003610Library
3611-------
3612
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003613- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
3614 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +00003615
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003616- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
3617 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +00003618
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003619- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00003620
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003621- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
3622 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
3623 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
3624 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00003625
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003626- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
3627 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +00003628
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +00003629- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
3630
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003631- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
3632 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +00003633
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003634- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
3635 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +00003636
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003637- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
3638 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
3639 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
3640 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
3641 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +00003642
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00003643- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003644 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
3645 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00003646
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +00003647- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
3648
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00003649- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
3650 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
3651
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003652- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
3653 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +00003654
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003655- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
3656 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +00003657
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003658- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +00003659 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
3660 "Include".
3661
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003662- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
3663 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +00003664
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003665- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
3666 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +00003667
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003668- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
3669 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +00003670
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003671- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
3672 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
3673 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +00003674
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003675- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
3676 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +00003677
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003678- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +00003679
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003680- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
3681 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +00003682
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003683- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +00003684
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003685- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
3686 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
3687 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
3688 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +00003689
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +00003690- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
3691 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
3692
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003693- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
3694 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +00003695
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +00003696- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
3697
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003698- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
3699 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +00003700
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003701- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
3702 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +00003703
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003704- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
3705 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
3706 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +00003707
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003708- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
3709 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00003710 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
3711 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
3712
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003713- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
3714 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
3715 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +00003716
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +00003717- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
3718
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003719- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
3720 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +00003721
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003722- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +00003723
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003724- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
3725 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +00003726
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003727- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
3728 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +00003729
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +00003730- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
3731
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +00003732- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
3733 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
3734
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003735- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +00003736 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
3737
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00003738- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003739 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
3740 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00003741
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00003742- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003743 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
3744 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00003745
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +00003746- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
3747
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003748- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
3749 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00003750
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00003751Extension Modules
3752-----------------
3753
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003754- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +00003755
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +00003756- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
3757
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00003758- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
3759
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003760- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
3761 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +00003762
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00003763Tests
3764-----
3765
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003766- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
3767 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
3768 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +00003769
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003770- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
3771 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +00003772
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +00003773- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
3774 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
3775
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003776- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
3777 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +00003778
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003779- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
3780 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00003781
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00003782Build
3783-----
3784
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003785- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +00003786 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
3787 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
3788 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
3789
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00003790- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
3791
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003792- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
3793 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +00003794
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003795- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +00003796
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +00003797Misc
3798----
3799
3800- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
3801
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00003802
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00003803What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
3804================================
3805
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +00003806*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00003807
3808Core and Builtins
3809-----------------
3810
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +00003811- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
3812
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +00003813- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
3814 changed.
3815
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003816- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +00003817 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
3818 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
3819
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +00003820- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
3821
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003822- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +00003823
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +00003824- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
3825
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003826- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
3827 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
3828 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
3829 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
Antoine Pitrou01a196a2011-01-02 20:05:11 +00003830 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003831 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +00003832
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +00003833- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
3834 references.
3835
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003836- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
3837 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00003838
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00003839- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00003840
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00003841- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
3842 arguments to a function correct.
3843
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00003844- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
3845
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00003846- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003847 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
3848 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00003849 module.
3850
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00003851- Code objects now support weak references.
3852
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00003853Library
3854-------
3855
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00003856- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
3857
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00003858- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003859 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
3860 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00003861
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00003862- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
3863
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003864- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
3865 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00003866
3867 >>> Decimal(1.1)
3868 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
3869
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00003870- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
3871
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003872- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
3873 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00003874
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003875- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
3876 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00003877
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003878- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
3879 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00003880
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003881- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
3882 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
3883 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
3884 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00003885
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003886- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
3887 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
3888 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
3889 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00003890
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00003891- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003892 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
3893 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
3894 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00003895
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003896- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
3897 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00003898
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00003899- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
3900 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003901 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00003902
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003903- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
3904 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
3905 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
3906 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00003907
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00003908- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
3909
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00003910- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
3911
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00003912- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
3913 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
3914
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00003915- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
3916
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00003917- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003918 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
3919 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00003920
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00003921- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
3922 deprecated.
3923
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003924- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
3925 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00003926
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003927- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
3928 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00003929
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003930- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
3931 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
3932 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00003933
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003934- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
3935 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00003936
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00003937- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
3938 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
3939 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00003940
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00003941- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
3942
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00003943- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
3944
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003945- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
3946 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
3947 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00003948
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00003949- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
3950 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
3951
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003952- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00003953
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003954- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
3955 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00003956
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003957- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
3958 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003959 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00003960
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00003961- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003962 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
3963 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
3964 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00003965
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003966- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00003967 cElementTree module is updated too.
3968
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00003969- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
3970
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003971- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00003972 classes.
3973
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003974- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
3975 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
3976 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
3977 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00003978
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00003979- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
3980 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
3981
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00003982- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
3983
3984- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
3985 during test runs.
3986
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00003987- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00003988 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
3989
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00003990Extension Modules
3991-----------------
3992
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00003993- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
3994
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00003995- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
3996
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00003997- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003998 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
3999 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00004000
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00004001- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
4002
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00004003- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
4004
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00004005- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
4006 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
4007 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
4008 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
4009
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004010- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
4011 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
4012 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004013 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
4014 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
4015 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
4016 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00004017
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004018- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
4019 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00004020
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00004021Tools/Demos
4022-----------
4023
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004024- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
4025 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
4026 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00004027
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00004028- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
4029
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00004030Build
4031-----
4032
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004033- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
4034 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00004035
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004036- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
4037 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
4038 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00004039
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00004040- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
4041
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00004042- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
4043
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00004044- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
4045 assembly file.
4046
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00004047C-API
4048-----
4049
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00004050- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004051 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
4052 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00004053
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004054- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
4055 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
4056 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
4057 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00004058
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00004059Tests
4060-----
4061
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004062- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
4063 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00004064
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00004065- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
4066
4067- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
4068
4069- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
4070
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00004071- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
4072
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00004073- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
4074
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00004075- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
4076 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
4077
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00004078- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
4079 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00004080
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004081- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
4082 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00004083
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00004084
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00004085What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
4086=================================
4087
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00004088*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00004089
4090Core and Builtins
4091-----------------
4092
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004093- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
4094 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00004095
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004096- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
4097 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00004098
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00004099- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004100 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00004101
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00004102- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004103 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
4104 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00004105
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004106- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
4107 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00004108
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004109- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00004110 Parser/myreadline.c.
4111
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00004112- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004113 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00004114
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004115- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
4116 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00004117
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00004118Library
4119-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00004120
Senthil Kumaranc1d0ed22010-12-04 09:58:29 +00004121- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
4122 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
4123 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
4124
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00004125- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
4126 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00004127
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00004128- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
4129
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004130- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00004131 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00004132
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004133- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00004134 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
4135
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004136- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
4137 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00004138
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00004139- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004140 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00004141
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00004142- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00004143
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004144- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
4145 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00004146
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004147- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00004148
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004149- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
4150 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00004151
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004152- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
4153 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00004154
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00004155- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
4156
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004157- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
4158 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
4159 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
4160 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00004161
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004162- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
4163 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00004164
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00004165- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
4166 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
4167 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00004168
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00004169- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00004170 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00004171
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004172- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00004173
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004174- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00004175
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004176- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00004177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004178- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
4179 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00004180
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00004181- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004182 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00004183
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004184- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00004185
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00004186- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
4187
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00004188Extension Modules
4189-----------------
4190
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004191- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00004192 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
4193
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00004194- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
4195
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004196- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00004197 handling.
4198
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00004199- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
4200 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00004201
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004202- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00004203 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
4204 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
4205
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004206- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
4207 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00004208
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00004209Tests
4210-----
4211
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004212- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
4213 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
4214 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00004215
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00004216- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
4217 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
4218
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004219- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
4220 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00004221
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004222- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00004223 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00004224
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004225- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00004226 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
4227
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004228- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
4229 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
4230 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
4231 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00004232
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00004233Build
4234-----
4235
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00004236- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00004237
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00004238
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00004239What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
4240=================================
4241
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00004242*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00004243
4244Core and Builtins
4245-----------------
4246
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00004247- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
4248 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004249 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
4250 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00004251
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00004252- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004253 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00004254
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004255- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
4256 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00004257
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004258- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00004259
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004260- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
4261 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00004262
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004263- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
4264 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
4265 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
4266 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00004267
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004268- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
4269 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
4270 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
4271 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00004272
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00004273- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
4274 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
4275 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
4276
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004277- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
4278 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00004279
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004280 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
4281 strings,
4282 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
4283 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
4284 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
4285 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
4286
4287- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
4288 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00004289
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00004290- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
4291
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00004292- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
4293
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00004294- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
4295
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00004296Library
4297-------
4298
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00004299- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
4300 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
4301
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00004302- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
4303 interpreter shutdown.
4304
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004305- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
4306 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
4307 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
4308 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00004309
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004310- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00004311
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004312- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00004313
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004314- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00004315
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00004316- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004317 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00004318 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
4319 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
4320
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00004321- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
4322
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00004323- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004324 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
4325 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00004326 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
4327
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004328- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
4329 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
4330 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
4331 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
4332 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
4333 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00004334
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00004335- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
4336
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004337- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
4338 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00004339
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004340- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
4341 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00004342
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004343- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
4344 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
4345 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
4346 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00004347
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004348- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00004349 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
4350 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
4351
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004352- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00004353 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
4354
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004355- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
4356 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00004357
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004358- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
4359 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00004360
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004361- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
4362 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00004363
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004364- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
4365 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00004366
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00004367- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004368 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
4369 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00004370
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00004371Extension Modules
4372-----------------
4373
4374- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
4375 (CVE_2009_3560).
4376
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00004377Build
4378-----
4379
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004380- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
4381 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
4382 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00004383
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00004384- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
4385
4386- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
4387 MacOSX.
4388
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00004389- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
4390 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
4391
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00004392Tools/Demos
4393-----------
4394
4395- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004396 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00004397 sandbox.
4398
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00004399Tests
4400-----
4401
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02004402- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00004403 instead of a hard coded port.
4404
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00004405Documentation
4406-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00004407
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004408- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
4409 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00004410
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004411- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00004412 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
4413
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00004414
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00004415What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
4416=================================
4417
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00004418*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00004419
4420Core and Builtins
4421-----------------
4422
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004423- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
4424 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00004425
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00004426- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
4427 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
4428
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00004429- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004430 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
4431 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
4432 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
4433 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
4434 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00004435
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00004436- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
4437 AttributeError.
4438
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004439- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
4440 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00004441
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004442- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00004443
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00004444- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
4445 used to drop the time part of the result.
4446
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004447- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
4448 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
4449 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
4450 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00004451
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004452- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
4453 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
4454 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00004455
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004456- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00004457 executables on OSX.
4458
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004459 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
4460 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
4461 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00004462
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004463- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
4464 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00004465
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00004466- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
4467
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004468- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
4469 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00004470
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00004471
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00004472Library
4473-------
4474
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004475- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
4476 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
4477 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00004478
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004479- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
4480 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
4481 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00004482
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00004483- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004484 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
4485 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00004486 Xicluna.
4487
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004488- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
4489 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00004490
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004491- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
4492 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00004493
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004494- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
4495 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
4496 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00004497
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004498- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00004499 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
4500
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004501- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
4502 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00004503
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004504- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00004505 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
4506
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004507- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
4508 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00004509
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004510- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
4511 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00004512
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004513- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
4514 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
4515 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00004516
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004517- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
4518 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00004519
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00004520- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
4521 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
4522 the same as passing no argument.
4523
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004524- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
4525 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00004526
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004527- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00004528
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004529- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00004530
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004531- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
4532 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00004533
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004534- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
4535 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00004536
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004537- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
4538 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00004539
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00004540C-API
4541-----
4542
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004543- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
4544 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00004545
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004546- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
4547 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
4548 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
4549 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
4550 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
4551 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
4552 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00004553
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004554- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00004555
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00004556Build
4557-----
4558
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00004559- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
4560
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00004561- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004562 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00004563
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004564- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
4565 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
4566 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00004567
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00004568- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
4569 found.
4570
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00004571- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00004572
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004573- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
4574 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00004575
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00004576Tests
4577-----
4578
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004579- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00004580 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
4581
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004582- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00004583
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00004584- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
4585 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
4586
4587
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004588What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
4589================================
4590
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00004591*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004592
4593Core and Builtins
4594-----------------
4595
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004596- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
4597 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00004598
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004599- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
4600 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
4601 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00004602
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004603- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
4604 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00004605
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004606- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
4607 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
4608 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00004609
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004610- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00004611
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004612- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00004613
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004614- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
4615 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00004616
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004617- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
4618 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
4619 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
4620 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
4621 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
4622 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00004623
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004624- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
4625 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
4626 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
4627 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
4628 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
4629 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
4630 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00004631
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004632 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
4633 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
4634 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
4635 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
4636 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
4637 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
4638 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
4639 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
4640 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
4641 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00004642
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004643- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
4644 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
4645 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
4646 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
4647 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
4648 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
4649 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
4650 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00004651
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00004652- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
4653
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004654- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
4655 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00004656
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004657- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
4658 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00004659
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004660- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
4661 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00004662
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00004663- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
4664
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004665- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
4666 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
4667 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00004668
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004669- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
4670 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00004671
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004672- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
4673 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004674
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004675- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
4676 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00004677
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004678- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
4679 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
4680 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00004681
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004682- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
4683 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00004684
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00004685- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
4686 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
4687 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
4688 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
4689
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00004690- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
4691 assignment.
4692
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004693- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
4694 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00004695
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004696- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
4697 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00004698
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004699- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
4700 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00004701
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00004702- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00004703 take keyword arguments.
4704
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004705- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
4706 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00004707
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004708- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
4709 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00004710
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00004711- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
4712
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00004713- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
4714 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
4715
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00004716- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
4717
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004718- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00004719
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004720- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00004721 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
4722
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004723- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
4724 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00004725
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004726- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00004727
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004728- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00004729
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004730- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00004731 occurred in the argument chain.
4732
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00004733- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
4734
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004735- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
4736 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00004737
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004738- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00004739 separator and end should be unicode also.
4740
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004741- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
4742 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00004743
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004744- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
4745 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
4746 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00004747
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00004748- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
4749
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00004750- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
4751 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
4752
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00004753- Removed the ipaddr module.
4754
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00004755- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
4756 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
4757
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004758- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00004759
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00004760- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
4761 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
4762
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00004763- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
4764
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004765- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
4766 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00004767
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00004768- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004769 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00004770
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004771- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
4772 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00004773
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00004774- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004775 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00004776
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00004777- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
4778 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
4779
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004780- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
4781 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
4782 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00004783
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00004784- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
4785
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004786- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
4787 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00004788
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004789- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00004790
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00004791- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00004792
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004793 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
4794 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
4795 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00004796
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004797- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
4798 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
4799 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
4800 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
4801 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
4802 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
4803 complex.__format__ in the same way.
4804
4805- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
4806 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
4807 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00004808
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00004809- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004810 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00004811
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004812- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
4813 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00004814
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004815- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
4816 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00004817
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004818- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
4819 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00004820
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004821- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
4822 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00004823
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00004824- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
4825 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
4826
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00004827- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
4828
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004829- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
4830 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00004831
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004832- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
4833 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00004834
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004835- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
4836 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00004837
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004838- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
4839 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00004840
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004841- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
4842 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00004843
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004844- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004845 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00004846
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004847- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
4848 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00004849
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00004850- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
4851
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004852- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00004853
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004854- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
4855 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00004856
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004857- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00004858
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00004859- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
4860 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
4861
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00004862- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
4863
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004864- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
4865 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00004866
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00004867- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004868 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
4869 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
4870 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00004871
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004872- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
4873 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
4874 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00004875
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004876- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
4877 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
4878 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
4879 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
4880 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00004881
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00004882- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
4883 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
4884
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004885- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
4886 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
4887 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00004888
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004889- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
4890 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00004891
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004892- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00004893 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
4894
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004895- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
4896 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00004897
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004898- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
4899 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00004900
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004901- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
4902 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00004903
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00004904- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
4905 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
4906
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004907- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
4908 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00004909
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00004910- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
4911
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00004912- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00004913 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
4914 zip(), and bytearray().
4915
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00004916- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
4917 functions.
4918
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00004919- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
4920 OSError.
4921
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00004922- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
4923
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004924- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
4925 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
4926 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00004927
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00004928- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
4929 __next__ method.
4930
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00004931- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
4932
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00004933- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
4934
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00004935- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
4936 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
4937 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00004938 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00004939 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
4940
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00004941- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
4942
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004943- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
4944 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
4945 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
4946 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
4947 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00004948
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004949- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00004950
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00004951- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
4952 file with `str' filename on Windows.
4953
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00004954- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
4955 did not get collected.
4956
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004957- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
4958 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00004959
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00004960- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
4961 directory on POSIX systems.
4962
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00004963- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
4964 systems.
4965
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00004966- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004967 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00004968
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00004969- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
4970 fail.
4971
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004972- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
4973 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
4974 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00004975
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00004976- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
4977
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004978- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
4979 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00004980
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004981- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
4982 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00004983
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004984- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00004985
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004986- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
4987 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
4988 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
4989 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00004990
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00004991- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
4992 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
4993 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
4994
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004995- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
4996 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00004997
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00004998- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
4999 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
5000
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005001- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
5002 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
5003 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
5004 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00005005
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00005006- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
5007 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
5008
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005009- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00005010
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00005011- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
5012
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00005013- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
5014
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00005015- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
5016 exec statement.
5017
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005018- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
5019 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00005020
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00005021- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
5022 __future__ import didn't work.
5023
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00005024- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00005025 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00005026
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005027- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
5028 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
5029 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
5030 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00005031
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005032- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
5033 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
5034 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
5035 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00005036
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005037- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
5038 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00005039
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00005040- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
5041
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00005042- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
5043
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00005044- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
5045
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005046- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
5047 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00005048
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00005049- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
5050 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00005051
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00005052- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
5053 returned them on 64bit platforms.
5054
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00005055- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
5056 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
5057 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
5058 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
5059
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00005060- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
5061 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
5062
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005063- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
5064 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
5065 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
5066 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00005067
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00005068Library
5069-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00005070
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00005071- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00005072
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00005073- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
5074
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005075- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
5076 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00005077
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005078- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00005079 TLS with authentication credentials.
5080
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005081- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
5082 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00005083
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00005084- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
5085 msvc9compiler.
5086
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005087- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
5088 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
5089 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00005090
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00005091- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
5092 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
5093 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
5094
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005095- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
5096 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00005097
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00005098- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
5099
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00005100- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005101 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00005102 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
5103
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005104- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
5105 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
5106 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00005107
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00005108- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
5109
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005110- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
5111 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00005112
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00005113- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
5114 raises ReadError on empty files.
5115
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005116- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00005117
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00005118- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
5119 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00005120
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005121- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
5122 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00005123
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005124- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
5125 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00005126
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005127- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00005128
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005129- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
5130 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00005131
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005132- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
5133 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00005134
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005135- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
5136 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
5137 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00005138 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
5139 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
5140
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005141- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
5142 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
5143 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00005144
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00005145- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005146 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00005147 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
5148
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005149- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
5150 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
5151 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00005152
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00005153- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
5154 which are part of a reference cycle.
5155
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005156- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
5157 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00005158
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005159- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00005160 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
5161 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
5162
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005163- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
5164 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
5165 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
5166 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00005167
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005168- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
5169 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
5170 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
5171 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00005172
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00005173- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
5174 header as required by RFC 1952.
5175
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00005176- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
5177 Distutils.
5178
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00005179- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
5180 an uppercase.
5181
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005182- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
5183 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00005184
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00005185- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
5186 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
5187
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00005188- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00005189 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
5190
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00005191- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
5192 protocol 2.
5193
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00005194- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
5195
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00005196- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
5197 larger than emax.
5198
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005199- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
5200 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00005201
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00005202- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
5203
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005204- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00005205
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00005206- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
5207
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005208- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00005209
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005210- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00005211
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00005212- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
5213 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00005214
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005215- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
5216 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00005217
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005218- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
5219 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00005220
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00005221- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00005222 Distutils.
5223
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005224- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00005225
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005226- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
5227 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00005228
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005229- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
5230 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00005231
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00005232- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
5233
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00005234- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
5235
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005236- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
5237 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00005238
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005239- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
5240 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00005241
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005242- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
5243 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00005244
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00005245- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
5246
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00005247- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
5248
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00005249- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005250 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
5251 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00005252
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005253- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00005254
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005255- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
5256 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
5257 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00005258
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005259- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
5260 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00005261
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005262- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00005263
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005264- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
5265 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
5266 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
5267 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00005268
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00005269- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
5270 as documented.
5271
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00005272- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
5273 names in the webbrowser module.
5274
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00005275- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
5276
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00005277- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
5278 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
5279
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00005280- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
5281
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00005282- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
5283
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00005284- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
5285
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00005286- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
5287
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00005288- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
5289
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00005290- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
5291 ScrolledText.
5292
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00005293- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
5294
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005295- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
5296 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00005297
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00005298- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
5299 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
5300 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
5301 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
5302
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00005303- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
5304 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
5305
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00005306- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005307 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
5308 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00005309
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005310- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
5311 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
5312 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00005313
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00005314- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
5315 opening an empty or very small file.
5316
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00005317- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
5318 containing incomplete data.
5319
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005320- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
5321 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00005322
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00005323- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
5324
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005325- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
5326 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
5327 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00005328
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00005329- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00005330
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005331- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
5332 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
5333 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
5334 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00005335
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005336- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00005337
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00005338- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
5339
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00005340- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
5341 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
5342
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00005343- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00005344
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00005345- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00005346 attribute.
5347
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00005348- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
5349
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00005350- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
5351 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
5352
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00005353- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
5354
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005355- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00005356 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005357 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00005358
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00005359- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00005360 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
5361
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00005362- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
5363
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005364- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
5365 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00005366 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
5367
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005368- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00005369 argument.
5370
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005371- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
5372 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00005373
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005374- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00005375
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00005376- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
5377
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00005378- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
5379
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00005380- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
5381 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
5382
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005383- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
5384 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00005385
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00005386- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
5387 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
5388 ``io`` module.
5389
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00005390- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
5391
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00005392- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005393 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
5394
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00005395- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
5396
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005397- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
5398 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
5399 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00005400
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00005401- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
5402
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005403- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
5404 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00005405
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00005406- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
5407
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005408- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
5409 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00005410
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00005411- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
5412 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
5413
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005414- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
5415 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00005416
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005417- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
5418 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00005419
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00005420- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
5421 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
5422 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
5423
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00005424- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
5425 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005426
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005427- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
5428 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
5429 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00005430
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00005431- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
5432 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
5433
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005434- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00005435 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
5436
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005437- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00005438
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005439- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
5440 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00005441
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005442- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00005443 subcommand.
5444
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00005445- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
5446 deepcopy()ing.
5447
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005448- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00005449
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00005450- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
5451
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005452- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00005453
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005454- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00005455 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
5456
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00005457- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
5458 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
5459
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00005460- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005461 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00005462
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005463- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
5464 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00005465
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00005466- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
5467 trying to print a traceback.
5468
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00005469- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
5470
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005471- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
5472 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00005473
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005474- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
5475 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
5476 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00005477 Cournapeau.
5478
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005479- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005480 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00005481
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005482- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
5483 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00005484
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00005485- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
5486
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00005487- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
5488 looking for files given by a relative filename.
5489
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005490- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00005491 extracting a file to the root directory.
5492
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005493- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00005494
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005495- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
5496 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
5497 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00005498
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00005499- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
5500 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
5501
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00005502- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
5503 Contributed by Google.
5504
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00005505- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
5506
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005507- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00005508
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00005509- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
5510
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005511- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
5512 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00005513 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
5514
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005515- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00005516 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
5517 initialized before.
5518
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00005519- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
5520 names which should not be exported.
5521
5522- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005523 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00005524
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00005525- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
5526
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005527- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
5528 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00005529
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00005530- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
5531
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00005532- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005533 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00005534
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005535- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
5536 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
5537 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00005538
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00005539- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
5540
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00005541- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
5542
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005543- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
5544 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
5545 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
5546 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
5547 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00005548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005549- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00005550
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005551- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
5552 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00005553
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005554- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00005555
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00005556- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005557 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00005558
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005559- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
5560 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00005561
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005562- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
5563 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00005564
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005565- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
5566 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00005567
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005568- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
5569 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00005570
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005571- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00005572
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00005573- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00005574
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005575- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00005576
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005577- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00005578
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005579- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00005580 mailbox.MH.get_message().
5581
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005582- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
5583 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00005584
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005585- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
5586 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
5587 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00005588
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005589- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
5590 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005591
5592- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00005593 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00005594
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005595- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
5596 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00005597 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
5598 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
5599
5600- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
5601 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005602
5603- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00005604 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005605
5606- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00005607 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00005608
5609- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
5610 called immediately before and after a test run.
5611
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005612- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00005613 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
5614 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
5615 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00005616
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005617- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00005618
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00005619- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
5620 printing out values.
5621
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005622- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00005623
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00005624- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
5625 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
5626 threads.
5627
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00005628- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
5629
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00005630- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
5631
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005632- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00005633 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
5634 that it was failing to do localization.
5635
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005636- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00005637 Brandl.
5638
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005639- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
5640 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00005641
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00005642- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
5643 with the threading module.
5644
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005645- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00005646
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00005647- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
5648
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005649- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
5650 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00005651
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00005652- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005653 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
5654 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00005655
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005656- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
5657 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00005658
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00005659- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
5660 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
5661 output compared to previous Python versions.
5662
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00005663- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
5664
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00005665- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005666 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
5667 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00005668
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005669- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
5670 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
5671 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
5672 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00005673
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005674- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
5675 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
5676 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
5677 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00005678
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00005679- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
5680 even if an exception occurs.
5681
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00005682- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
5683 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
5684
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005685- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
5686 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00005687
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005688- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
5689 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00005690
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005691- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00005692 character.
5693
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005694- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
5695 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00005696
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005697- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00005698
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00005699- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005700 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
5701 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00005702
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005703- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
5704 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
5705 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00005706
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00005707- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
5708
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005709- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00005710 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
5711
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00005712- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
5713
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00005714- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
5715
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005716- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00005717
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00005718- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
5719
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00005720- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
5721
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00005722- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
5723 ready received.
5724
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00005725- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
5726 import guess_extension`` was used.
5727
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005728- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
5729 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00005730
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00005731- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
5732 overrun.
5733
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00005734- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
5735 bdist_rpm command.
5736
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005737- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00005738
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005739- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00005740
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00005741- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
5742 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
5743
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005744- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
5745 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00005746
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00005747- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
5748 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00005749
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005750- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
5751 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00005752
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00005753- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
5754
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005755- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
5756 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00005757
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005758- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00005759 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
5760
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00005761- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
5762 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
5763
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005764- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00005765
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005766- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
5767 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00005768
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00005769- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
5770 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
5771
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00005772- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
5773 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
5774
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00005775- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005776 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00005777 ctime of the files involved.
5778
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00005779- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
5780 deadlock.
5781
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005782- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
5783 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
5784 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00005785
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00005786- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
5787
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005788- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
5789 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00005790
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005791- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
5792 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00005793
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005794- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
5795 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
5796 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00005797
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005798- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
5799 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
5800 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
5801 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00005802
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00005803- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00005804 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
5805
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005806- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
5807 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00005808
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00005809- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
5810 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
5811
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00005812- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00005813 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
5814
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00005815- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
5816
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005817- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
5818 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00005819
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005820- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
5821 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00005822
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00005823- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
5824
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005825- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00005826 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
5827
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005828- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
5829 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00005830
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005831- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
5832 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00005833
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00005834- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
5835
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005836- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00005837
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005838- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
5839 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00005840
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005841- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
5842 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00005843
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005844- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00005845 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
5846
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005847- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
5848 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00005849
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005850- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
5851 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00005852
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00005853- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005854 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
5855 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00005856
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005857- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
5858 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
5859 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
5860 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00005861
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005862- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
5863 parameter was set.
5864
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00005865- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
5866 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00005867 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00005868
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00005869- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005870 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
5871 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00005872
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00005873- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
5874 in sharedctypes.py.
5875
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00005876- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
5877 __getattr__.
5878
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005879- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
5880 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00005881
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005882- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00005883 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
5884
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005885- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00005886
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00005887- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
5888
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00005889- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005890 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
5891 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00005892 Jacques Frechet.
5893
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00005894- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
5895
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005896- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +02005897 Windows. Initial solution by Guy Dalberto.
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00005898
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00005899- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005900 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
5901 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00005902
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005903- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
5904 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00005905
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005906- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
5907 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00005908
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00005909- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
5910 the function is not a generator.
5911
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005912- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
5913 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00005914
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005915- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
5916 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00005917
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005918- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
5919 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00005920
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005921- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
5922 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00005923
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00005924- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
5925
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00005926- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
5927
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005928- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
5929 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00005930
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005931- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
5932 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00005933
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00005934- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
5935 Gabriel Genellina.
5936
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00005937- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
5938
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00005939- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
5940
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005941- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00005942
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005943- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
5944 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
5945 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00005946
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005947- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
5948 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005949 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
5950
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005951- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
5952 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
5953 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005954
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005955- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
5956 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
5957 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
5958 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
5959 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005960
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005961- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
5962 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005963
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00005964- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02005965 when given a Unicode string.
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00005966
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00005967- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
5968
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005969- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
5970 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
5971 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00005972
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005973- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
5974 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00005975
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005976- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00005977
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005978- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00005979 statements.
5980
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00005981- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
5982 not a malformed option.
5983
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005984- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
5985 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00005986
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00005987- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
5988 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
5989 Content-Disposition headers.
5990
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00005991- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005992 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
5993 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
5994 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
5995 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00005996
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00005997- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
5998 exception.
5999
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006000- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
6001 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00006002
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00006003- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
6004
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00006005- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
6006
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00006007- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
6008 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
6009
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00006010- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
6011 and then remove it.
6012
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00006013- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
6014
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00006015- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
6016 debugging.
6017
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00006018- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
6019 inspect.getargvalues.
6020
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00006021- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
6022
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00006023- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
6024 to claiming it is Mature.
6025
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00006026- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
6027 when protocol 0 is used.
6028
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00006029- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
6030 to be consistent with Apple tools.
6031
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00006032- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00006033 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00006034
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00006035- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
6036
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006037- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00006038 module.
6039
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006040- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
6041 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00006042
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006043- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00006044
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006045- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00006046
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00006047- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006048 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00006049
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00006050- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006051 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
6052 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00006053
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00006054- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
6055 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
6056
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006057- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
6058 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00006059
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00006060- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
6061 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
6062 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
6063
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00006064- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
6065
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03006066IDLE
6067----
6068
6069- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
6070 whitespace.
6071
6072- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
6073
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00006074Tools/Demos
6075-----------
6076
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006077- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00006078
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006079- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00006080
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00006081Build
6082-----
6083
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006084- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
6085 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
6086 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00006087
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006088- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
6089 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
6090 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00006091
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006092- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00006093
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00006094- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
6095
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006096- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006097 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00006098
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006099- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006100 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00006101
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006102- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
6103 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00006104
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00006105- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
6106
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006107- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
6108 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00006109
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00006110- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00006111 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00006112
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00006113- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
6114
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00006115- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
6116
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00006117- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
6118
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00006119- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
6120
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006121- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00006122
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00006123- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
6124
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00006125- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
6126
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00006127- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
6128
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00006129- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
6130
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00006131- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
6132
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00006133- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
6134
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00006135- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
6136
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006137- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00006138
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00006139- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
6140
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00006141Documentation
6142-------------
6143
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006144- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
6145 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00006146
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006147- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
6148 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00006149
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00006150C-API
6151-----
6152
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00006153- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
6154
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006155- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
6156 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00006157
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006158- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
6159 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00006160
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006161- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
6162 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00006163
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006164- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
6165 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00006166
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00006167- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
6168 PyCode_Addr2Line().
6169
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00006170- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
6171 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
6172
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00006173- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
6174 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
6175
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00006176- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
6177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006178- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
6179 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00006180
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00006181- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
6182
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006183- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
6184 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00006185
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00006186- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
6187 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00006188
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006189- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00006190 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00006191
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00006192Extension Modules
6193-----------------
6194
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00006195- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
6196
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00006197- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
6198
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006199- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00006200
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00006201- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006202 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00006203
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006204- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
6205 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00006206
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006207- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
6208 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00006209
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00006210- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
6211 module.
6212
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00006213- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
6214
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00006215- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00006216 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00006217
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006218- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
6219 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
6220 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00006221
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006222- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
6223 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
6224 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00006225
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006226- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
6227 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
6228 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00006229
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006230 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
6231 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00006232
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006233 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
6234 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
6235 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
6236 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
6237 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
6238 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
6239 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00006240
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006241 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
6242 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
6243 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00006244
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00006245- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
6246
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006247- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
6248 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00006249
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00006250- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
6251 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00006252 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00006253
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00006254- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00006255
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00006256- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
6257
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00006258- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
6259
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00006260- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
6261
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00006262- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
6263
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00006264- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
6265 OpenBSD.
6266
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00006267- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
6268
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00006269- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
6270
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00006271- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
6272
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00006273Tests
6274-----
6275
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006276- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
6277 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
6278 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00006279
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006280- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
6281 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00006282
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006283- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
6284 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00006285
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00006286- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
6287
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00006288- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
6289 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
6290
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00006291- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006292 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
6293 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
6294 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00006295
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006296- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
6297 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00006298
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00006299- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
6300 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
6301
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00006302- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
6303 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
6304 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00006305
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00006306- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
6307
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00006308- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
6309 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
6310
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00006311- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
6312 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006313 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
6314 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00006315
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00006316- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
6317 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
6318
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006319- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
6320 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
6321 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
6322 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
6323 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00006324
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00006325- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
6326
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00006327- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
6328
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00006329- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
6330
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006331- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
6332 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
6333 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00006334
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00006335- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
6336
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00006337- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
6338 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
6339 incorrectly on __exit__.
6340
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00006341- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
6342
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00006343Misc
6344----
6345
6346- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
6347
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00006348
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00006349What's New in Python 2.6 final
6350==============================
6351
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00006352*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00006353
6354Core and Builtins
6355-----------------
6356
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00006357- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
6358 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
6359
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00006360- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
6361 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
6362
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00006363- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
6364
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00006365Library
6366-------
6367
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00006368- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
6369 true singleton object.
6370
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00006371- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
6372 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
6373 into a float.
6374
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00006375- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
6376
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00006377- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
6378 sizes.
6379
Ezio Melotti419e23c2013-08-17 16:56:09 +03006380- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_environment was fixed.
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00006381
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00006382- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
6383 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
6384
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00006385Build
6386-----
6387
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00006388- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
6389 installer.
6390
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00006391- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
6392
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00006393
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00006394What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
6395=============================================
6396
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00006397*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00006398
6399Core and Builtins
6400-----------------
6401
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00006402Extension Modules
6403-----------------
6404
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00006405- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
6406 segfault as a result.
6407
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00006408- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
6409 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00006410
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00006411Tools/Demos
6412-----------
6413
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00006414- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00006415 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
6416 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
6417 are caught and silenced.
6418
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00006419Build
6420-----
6421
6422- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
6423 C runtime in the Windows installer.
6424
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00006425
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00006426What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
6427=============================================
6428
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00006429*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00006430
6431Core and Builtins
6432-----------------
6433
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00006434- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
6435
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00006436- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
6437 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
6438 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
6439 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
6440 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
6441 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
6442 64bit values.
6443
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00006444- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
6445 error.
6446
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00006447- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
6448 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
6449 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
6450 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
6451
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00006452- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
6453 a unicode argument.
6454
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00006455- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
6456
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00006457- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00006458 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00006459 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
6460
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00006461- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00006462 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
6463 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
6464 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
6465 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
6466 type object.
6467
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00006468- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
6469
6470- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
6471
6472- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
6473
6474- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
6475
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00006476- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
6477 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
6478
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00006479- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
6480 ``__delslice__``.
6481
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00006482- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
6483 library targets in the Makefile.
6484
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00006485- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
6486 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
6487 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
6488
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00006489C-API
6490-----
6491
6492- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
6493
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00006494Library
6495-------
6496
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00006497- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
6498 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
6499
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00006500- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
6501
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00006502- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
6503
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00006504- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
6505 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
6506 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
6507
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00006508- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
6509
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00006510- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00006511 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
6512
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00006513- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
6514
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00006515- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
6516
6517- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00006518
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00006519- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
6520 its symbolic link.
6521
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00006522- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
6523
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006524- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00006525 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
6526 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
6527
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00006528- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
6529 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
6530
6531- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00006532
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00006533- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
6534 path to the Python binary.
6535
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006536- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00006537 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
6538 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
6539 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
6540
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00006541- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
6542
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00006543- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
6544
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00006545- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
6546
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00006547- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
6548
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00006549- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
6550 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00006551
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00006552- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
6553 non-integer floating point number.
6554
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00006555- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00006556 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
6557
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00006558Extension Modules
6559-----------------
6560
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00006561- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
6562 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
6563
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00006564- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
6565 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
6566 without limit.
6567
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00006568- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
6569 exploitation of poor argument checking.
6570
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00006571- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
6572
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00006573- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
6574 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
6575
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00006576- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
6577 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
6578 threads/processes.
6579
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00006580Tests
6581-----
6582
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00006583- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
6584 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
6585 that expected warning messages are being reported.
6586
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00006587- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
6588
6589- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00006590
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00006591Build
6592-----
6593
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00006594- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
6595
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00006596- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
6597 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
6598
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00006599- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
6600
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00006601- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00006602 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00006603
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00006604
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006605What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
6606================================
6607
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00006608*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006609
6610Core and Builtins
6611-----------------
6612
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00006613- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
6614 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
6615 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
6616 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
6617 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
6618 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
6619 default.
6620
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00006621- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
6622 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
6623
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00006624- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
6625 value again.
6626
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00006627- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
6628 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
6629 and introducing s*.
6630
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00006631- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
6632 object was stored in the freelist.
6633
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00006634- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
6635 ValueError consistently across platforms.
6636
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00006637- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
6638 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
6639 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
6640
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00006641- Apply security patches from Apple.
6642
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00006643- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
6644 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
6645
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00006646- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
6647 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
6648
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00006649- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
6650 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
6651 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
6652
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00006653- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
6654 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
6655 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
6656 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
6657 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
6658 failed have been fixed.
6659
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006660Library
6661-------
6662
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00006663- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
6664
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00006665- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
6666 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
6667
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00006668- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
6669 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
6670 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
6671
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00006672- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
6673 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
6674 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
6675 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
6676 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
6677 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
6678
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00006679- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
6680 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
6681
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00006682- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
6683
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00006684- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
6685
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00006686- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
6687
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00006688- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
6689 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
6690
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00006691- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00006692 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
6693
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006694- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00006695 in a redirect.
6696
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00006697- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00006698 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00006699
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00006700- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
6701 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
6702
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00006703- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
6704 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
6705 regular expression.
6706
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00006707- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
6708 thread-safe.
6709
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00006710- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
6711 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
6712 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
6713
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00006714- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
6715
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00006716- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
6717 menu entries were not deleted.
6718
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00006719- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
6720 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
6721
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00006722- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
6723 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
6724
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00006725- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
6726 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
6727 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
6728
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00006729- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
6730 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
6731 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
6732
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00006733- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
6734 the reload() built-in has been removed.
6735
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00006736- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00006737 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00006738 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
6739 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
6740 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
6741 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
6742 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00006743
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00006744- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
6745 raised an AttributeError.
6746
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00006747- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00006748 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
6749 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00006750
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00006751- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
6752 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
6753
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006754- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00006755
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006756- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00006757 on a closed shelf.
6758
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00006759- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
6760
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006761- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
6762
6763- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
6764 invalid arguments.
6765
6766- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
6767 with None arguments.
6768
6769- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
6770 configuration files.
6771
6772- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
6773
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00006774- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
6775 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
6776 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
6777
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00006778- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
6779 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
6780 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
6781
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00006782Build
6783-----
6784
6785- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
6786
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00006787Documentation
6788-------------
6789
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00006790- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
6791 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
6792
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00006793- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
6794 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
6795 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
6796 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
6797
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006798
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00006799What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
6800================================
6801
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006802*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
6803
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00006804Core and Builtins
6805-----------------
6806
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00006807- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
6808 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
6809 an integer using operator.index().
6810
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00006811- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
6812 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
6813
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00006814- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
6815 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
6816
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00006817- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
6818 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
6819 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
6820
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00006821- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
6822 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
6823 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
6824 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
6825 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
6826 level.
6827
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00006828- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
6829 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
6830 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
6831 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
6832 all imports from that module to fail.
6833
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00006834- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
6835 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
6836 new-style classes.
6837
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00006838- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
6839 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
6840 another file in sys.stdout.
6841
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00006842- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
6843 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
6844 another thread's dictionary.
6845
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00006846- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
6847 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
6848 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
6849 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
6850 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
6851 10, -1).
6852
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00006853- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
6854 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
6855 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00006856
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00006857- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
6858 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
6859 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00006860
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00006861Library
6862-------
6863
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00006864- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
6865 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
6866 error when they failed.
6867
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00006868- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
6869
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00006870- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
6871
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00006872- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
6873
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00006874- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
6875
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00006876- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
6877 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
6878
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00006879- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00006880
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00006881- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
6882 a valid dlerror() message.
6883
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00006884- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
6885 incomplete structure was created.
6886
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00006887- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
6888
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00006889- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
6890
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006891- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00006892
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00006893- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
6894 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006895 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00006896 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
6897 merged into trunk.
6898
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00006899- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
6900
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00006901- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
6902
6903- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
6904
6905- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
6906 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00006907 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00006908
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00006909- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006910 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00006911
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00006912- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
6913 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
6914
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00006915- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
6916 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
6917
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00006918- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
6919 interrupted by a signal.
6920
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006921- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00006922 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
6923 Prevents a deadlock.
6924
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00006925- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
6926 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
6927 default https port (443).
6928
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00006929- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
6930 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
6931 if the new process uses the threading module.
6932
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00006933Tests
6934-----
6935
6936- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
6937 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
6938 have been added to test_warnings.
6939
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00006940Build
6941-----
6942
6943- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
6944
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00006945
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00006946Documentation
6947-------------
6948
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00006949- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00006950 Python 3.0.
6951
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00006952- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
6953
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00006954- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
6955 Python 3.0.
6956
6957- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
6958 Python 3.0.
6959
6960
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006961What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
6962================================
6963
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00006964*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006965
6966Core and Builtins
6967-----------------
6968
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00006969- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
6970 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
6971 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
6972 bus error.
6973
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00006974- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
6975 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
6976
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00006977- Add future_builtins.ascii().
6978
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00006979- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00006980 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00006981
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00006982- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
6983
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00006984- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
6985
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00006986- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
6987
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00006988- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
6989
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006990- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
6991 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
6992 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
6993 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00006994
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00006995- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
6996
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006997- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
6998 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00006999
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007000- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
7001 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00007002
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007003- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
7004 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
7005 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00007006
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00007007- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
7008 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
7009 can't be triggered from Python code.
7010
7011
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00007012Extension Modules
7013-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00007014- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00007015
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00007016- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
7017
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00007018- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00007019
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00007020- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
7021 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
7022
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00007023- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
7024 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
7025
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00007026- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
7027 weakref.proxy.
7028
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007029- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
7030 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00007031
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00007032- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00007033
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00007034- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00007035 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
7036 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00007037
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007038- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
7039 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
7040 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00007041
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00007042- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
7043 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
7044 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
7045
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007046- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00007047
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00007048- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00007049
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00007050Library
7051-------
7052
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00007053- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
7054 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
7055
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00007056- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
7057
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00007058- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
7059 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
7060 sense).
7061
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00007062- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
7063
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00007064- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
7065 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
7066 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
7067 the patch.
7068
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00007069- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
7070 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
7071 the patch).
7072
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00007073- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
7074 os.uname exists.
7075
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00007076- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
7077
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00007078- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
7079
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00007080- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
7081 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
7082 pointer-like object.
7083
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00007084- Added the ast module.
7085
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00007086- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00007087
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00007088- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
7089 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
7090
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00007091- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
7092 to errno.
7093
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00007094- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00007095
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00007096- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00007097 msilib.Record objects.
7098
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00007099- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
7100 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
7101
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00007102- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
7103 in Python 3.0.
7104
7105- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
7106 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00007107
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00007108- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
7109 False boolean value now.
7110
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00007111- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
7112 transfers.
7113
7114- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
7115 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00007116
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00007117- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
7118 when the TarFile is closed.
7119
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00007120- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
7121 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
7122 an exception.
7123
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00007124- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
7125 otherwise be produced.
7126
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00007127- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
7128 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
7129
7130- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
7131 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
7132
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00007133- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
7134 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
7135 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
7136
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00007137- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
7138
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007139- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00007140 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
7141 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
7142 'm' or 'c'.
7143
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00007144- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7145
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007146- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
7147 removal in Python 3.0.
7148
7149- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7150 3.0.
7151
7152- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7153 3.0.
7154
7155- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7156 3.0.
7157
7158- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00007159 Python 3.0.
7160
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00007161- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
7162 Python 3.0.
7163
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007164- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7165 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00007166
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007167- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7168 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00007169
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007170- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7171 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00007172
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007173- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7174 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00007175
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007176- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00007177 Python 3.0.
7178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007179- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7180 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00007181
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007182- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7183 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00007184
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007185- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7186 3.0.
7187
7188- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
7189 removal in Python 3.0.
7190
7191- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7192 3.0.
7193
7194- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7195 3.0.
7196
7197- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
7198 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00007199
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007200- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
7201 removal in Python 3.0.
7202
7203- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00007204 Python 3.0.
7205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007206- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7207 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00007208
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00007209- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
7210 Python 3.0.
7211
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00007212- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
7213 Python 3.0.
7214
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007215- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00007216
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00007217- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7218
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00007219- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7220
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00007221- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
7222
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00007223- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007225- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
7226 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
7227 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00007228
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007229- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
7230 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00007231
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00007232- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7233
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007234- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
7235 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00007236
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00007237- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7238
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00007239- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7240
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00007241- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7242
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00007243- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7244
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00007245- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7246
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007247- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
7248 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00007249
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00007250- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7251
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00007252- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7253
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00007254- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
7255 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
7256 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
7257 OverflowError.
7258
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00007259- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7260
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007261- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
7262 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00007263
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00007264- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7265
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00007266- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7267
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00007268- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7269
7270- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00007271
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00007272- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7273
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00007274- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
7275
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00007276- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
7277
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00007278- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00007279
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007280- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
7281 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00007282
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00007283- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00007284 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
7285 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
7286 of Python.
7287
7288- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
7289 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
7290
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00007291- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
7292 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00007293
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00007294Build
7295-----
7296
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00007297- 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 +00007298
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00007299- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
7300
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00007301- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
7302
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00007303- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
7304 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00007305 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00007306
7307 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
7308
7309 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
7310
7311 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
7312
7313 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
7314
7315 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
7316
7317 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
7318
7319
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00007320C API
7321-----
7322
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00007323- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
7324
7325- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00007326
7327- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
7328 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
7329 PyString names.
7330
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00007331
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007332What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00007333=================================
7334
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00007335*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00007336
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00007337Core and builtins
7338-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00007339
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00007340- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
7341
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007342- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
7343 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00007344
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007345- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
7346 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00007347
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007348- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00007349
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00007350Extension Modules
7351-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007353- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
7354 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00007355
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00007356- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
7357
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007358- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
7359 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00007360
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007361- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
7362 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00007363
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007364- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
7365 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00007366
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007367- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
7368 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
7369 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
7370 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
7371 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
7372 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
7373 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
7374 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00007375
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007376Library
7377-------
7378
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00007379- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7380
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007381- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
7382 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00007383
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00007384- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
7385
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007386- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
7387 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00007388
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00007389- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
7390 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
7391 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
7392
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00007393- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00007394 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00007395
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00007396- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00007397 reference to themselves.
7398
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00007399- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
7400 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
7401 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00007402
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00007403- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
7404 1900-01-01.
7405
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00007406- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
7407 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
7408
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00007409- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
7410 now implemented in C for better performance.
7411
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007412- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
7413 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
7414 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00007415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007416- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00007417 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
7418 build documentation for more information.
7419
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00007420- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
7421 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
7422 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
7423 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
7424
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00007425- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
7426 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
7427 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
7428
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007429- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
7430 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
7431 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
7432 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00007433
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007434Tests
7435-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00007436
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007437- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
7438 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
7439 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
7440 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
7441 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
7442 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
7443 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
7444 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
7445 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
7446 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
7447 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
7448 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
7449 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
7450 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
7451 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
7452 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
7453 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
7454 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
7455 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
7456 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
7457
7458 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
7459 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
7460 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
7461 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
7462 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
7463 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
7464 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
7465 access to the underlying socket used.
7466
7467 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
7468 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
7469 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00007470
7471 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007472 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00007473 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
7474 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
7475
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007476 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
7477 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007478
7479Build
7480-----
7481
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00007482- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
7483
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00007484- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
7485 gcc is used as compiler.
7486
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00007487- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007488 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00007489
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007490C API
7491-----
7492
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007493- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
7494 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
7495 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
7496 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00007497
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00007498- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00007499
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007500
7501What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
7502=================================
7503
7504*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
7505
7506Core and builtins
7507-----------------
7508
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007509- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
7510 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
7511 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00007512
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00007513- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
7514 cannot be executed.
7515
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00007516- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
7517 reference on the outer class name.
7518
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00007519- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007520 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00007521
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007522- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
7523 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00007524
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00007525- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00007526
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00007527- Added backport of bytearray type.
7528
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00007529- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
7530
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00007531- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007532 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
7533 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
7534 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
7535 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
7536 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00007537
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00007538- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
7539
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007540- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
7541 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00007542
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00007543- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00007544
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00007545- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
7546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007547- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
7548 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00007549
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007550- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
7551 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00007552
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007553- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00007554 exception instances.
7555
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00007556- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007557 doesn't derive from BaseException.
7558
7559- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
7560 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00007561
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00007562- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
7563 memory usage in some circumstances.
7564
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007565- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
7566 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
7567 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00007568
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00007569- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
7570
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007571- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00007572 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
7573 longer passed.
7574
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00007575- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
7576
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007577- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
7578 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
7579 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00007580
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007581- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
7582 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00007583
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00007584- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
7585
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00007586Extension Modules
7587-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00007588
7589- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
7590
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00007591Library
7592-------
7593
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007594- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
7595 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007596
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007597- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
7598 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
7599 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007600
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007601- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
7602 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007604- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
7605 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
7606 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00007607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007608- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
7609 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00007610
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00007611- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
7612
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00007613- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
7614 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
7615 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
7616
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00007617- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
7618
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00007619- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
7620 advertised in the docs.
7621
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007622- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00007623
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007624- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00007625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007626- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
7627 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00007628
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00007629- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
7630 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
7631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007632- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
7633 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00007634 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
7635 information as well.
7636
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007637- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
7638 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00007639
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007640- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
7641 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00007642
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007643- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
7644 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
7645 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00007646
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00007647- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
7648 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
7649 strftime.
7650
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00007651- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007652 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
7653 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00007654
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00007655- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
7656 correctly under win32
7657
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007658- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00007659
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00007660- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007661 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
7662 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
7663 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00007664
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00007665- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
7666 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
7667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007668- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
7669 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00007670
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007671- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
7672 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
7673 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00007674
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007675- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00007676 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
7677
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00007678- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
7679 from 't' to '?'.
7680
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00007681- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
7682 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007683 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
7684 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
7685 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00007686
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007687- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
7688 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00007689
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00007690Tests
7691-----
7692
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007693- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
7694 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00007695
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00007696- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
7697
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00007698- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
7699
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00007700- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
7701
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00007702- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
7703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007704- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
7705 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00007706
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00007707- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
7708
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00007709- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00007710
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007711- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
7712 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00007713
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00007714- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
7715
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00007716- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
7717
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00007718- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
7719 permission to create files in the root directory.
7720
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00007721Build
7722-----
7723
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00007724- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
7725
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007726- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
7727 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00007728
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00007729- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00007730
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00007731C API
7732-----
7733
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007734- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007735 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
7736
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00007737
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007738What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
7739=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007740
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00007741*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007742
7743Core and builtins
7744-----------------
7745
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00007746- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00007747 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00007748
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00007749- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
7750
7751- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00007752
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007753- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00007754 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00007755
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00007756- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
7757 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
7758 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
7759 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
7760 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
7761 module is:
7762 from future_builtins import hex, oct
7763
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00007764- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
7765 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
7766 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
7767 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
7768 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
7769 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
7770
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00007771- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
7772 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
7773 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
7774 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
7775 PyObject_Format().
7776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007777- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
7778 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
7779 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00007780
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007781- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007782 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
7783 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00007784
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007785- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
7786 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00007787
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007788- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
7789 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
7790 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00007791
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007792- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
7793 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
7794 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00007795
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00007796- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
7797 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
7798
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007799- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007800 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00007801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007802- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
7803 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00007804 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
7805
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007806- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
7807 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
7808 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00007809
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007810- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
7811 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00007812
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007813- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
7814 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00007815
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007816- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
7817 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00007818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007819- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
7820 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00007821
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007822- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
7823 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
7824 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00007825
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007826- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
7827 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
7828 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
7829 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00007830
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00007831- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
7832 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
7833 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
7834
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00007835- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00007836 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
7837 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
7838
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007839- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00007840 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
7841 support.
7842
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00007843- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
7844 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
7845
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00007846- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
7847
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007848- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00007849 added.
7850
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00007851- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
7852 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
7853
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007854- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
7855 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00007856
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007857- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
7858 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
7859 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00007860
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007861- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
7862 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00007863
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00007864- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
7865 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00007866
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00007867- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
7868
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007869- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
7870 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
7871 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00007872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007873- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
7874 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
7875 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00007876
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007877- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00007878
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007879- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
7880 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00007881
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00007882- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007883 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
7884 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00007885
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007886- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
7887 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
7888 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
7889 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00007890
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007891- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00007892
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007893- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
7894 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00007895
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007896- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
7897 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00007898
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00007899- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00007900 SystemError.
7901
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00007902- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
7903 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
7904 __package__ attribute.
7905
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007906- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
7907 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
7908 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00007909
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00007910- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
7911
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007912- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00007913 attribute of an empty cell object.
7914
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007915- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
7916 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00007917
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007918- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
7919 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
7920 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
7921 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00007922
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007923- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
7924 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
7925 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00007926
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00007927- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
7928
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00007929- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
7930
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00007931- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
7932
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007933- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007934 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
7935 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00007936
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007937- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
7938 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
7939 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
7940 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
7941 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
7942 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00007943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007944- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
7945 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
7946 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
7947 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
7948 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00007949
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007950- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
7951 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
7952 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00007953
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007954- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
7955 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00007956
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00007957- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007958 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
7959 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
7960 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
7961 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
7962 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00007963
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007964- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
7965 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00007966
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00007967- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
7968 with %G.
7969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007970- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
7971 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00007972
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007973- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00007974
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007975- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00007976
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00007977- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007978 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
7979 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00007980
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00007981- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
7982 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
7983
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00007984- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
7985 calls.
7986
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00007987- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007988 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
7989 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00007990
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00007991- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
7992
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007993- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007994 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00007995
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007996- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00007997 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
7998
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00007999- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
8000
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00008001- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
8002 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
8003 remaining characters.
8004
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00008005- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
8006 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
8007
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00008008- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
8009
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00008010- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
8011 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
8012 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
8013 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
8014 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00008015 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
8016 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00008017
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008018- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
8019 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
8020 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
8021 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
8022 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00008023
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008024- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
8025 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
8026 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00008027
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008028- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
8029 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00008030
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008031- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
8032 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
8033 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00008034
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008035- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
8036 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00008037
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00008038- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
8039
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00008040- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
8041 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
8042
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00008043- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008044 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
8045 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
8046 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00008047
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00008048- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
8049 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
8050
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008051- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
8052 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00008053
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008054- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
8055 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
8056 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00008057
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00008058- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008059 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
8060 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00008061
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00008062- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
8063 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008064 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
8065 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00008066
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008067- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
8068 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00008069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008070- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
8071 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00008072
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00008073- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
8074 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
8075
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008076- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
8077 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
8078 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00008079
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008080- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
8081 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00008082
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008083- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
8084 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00008085
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008086- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
8087 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
8088 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00008089
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00008090- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
8091 frame's thread state.
8092
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008093- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
8094 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00008095
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008096- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
8097 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00008098
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008099- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
8100 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00008101
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008102- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
8103 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00008104
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008105- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
8106 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00008107
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00008108- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
8109
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00008110- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
8111
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00008112- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
8113
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008114- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
8115 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00008116
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008117- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00008118
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00008119- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
8120 again, no longer the posix error code.
8121
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00008122- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
8123 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
8124
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008125- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
8126 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00008127
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00008128- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
8129 embedded in the string to convert.
8130
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00008131- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
8132 recognized and rejected.
8133
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00008134- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
8135
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00008136- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
8137 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
8138 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00008139
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00008140- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
8141 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
8142
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00008143- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008144 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
8145 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00008146
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008147- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
8148 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
8149 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00008150
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00008151- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
8152
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00008153- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
8154
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00008155- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
8156
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008157- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
8158 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
8159 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00008160
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00008161- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
8162 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
8163 'exceptions'.
8164
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00008165- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
8166 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
8167
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00008168- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
8169 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
8170
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00008171- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
8172
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00008173- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
8174
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00008175- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
8176 head is the original string if sep was not found.
8177
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00008178- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008179 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
8180 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
8181 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00008182
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008183- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00008184
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008185- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
8186 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00008187
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00008188- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
8189 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00008190
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008191- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00008192 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
8193 it actually exited.
8194
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008195
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00008196Library
8197-------
8198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008199- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00008200
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00008201- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
8202
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00008203- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
8204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008205- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
8206 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00008207
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008208- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00008209
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008210- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
8211 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
8212 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00008213
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008214- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
8215 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00008216
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008217- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00008218 (ignore-case)
8219
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00008220- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
8221 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
8222 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
8223 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
8224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008225- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
8226 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00008227
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008228- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
8229 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00008230
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00008231- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
8232 pickled.
8233
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00008234- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
8235 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
8236
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00008237- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
8238 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
8239 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
8240
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008241- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
8242 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00008243
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008244- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
8245 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
8246 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00008247
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008248- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
8249 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00008250
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008251- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
8252 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00008253
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008254- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
8255 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
8256 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
8257 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00008258
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008259- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
8260 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00008261 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
8262
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00008263- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
8264
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008265- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
8266 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00008267
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008268- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00008269
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008270- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
8271 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008272
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008273- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
8274 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008276- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
8277 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008278
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008279- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
8280 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008281
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008282- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
8283 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
8284 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00008285
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008286- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
8287 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00008288
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008289- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
8290 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00008291
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008292- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
8293 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00008294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008295- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
8296 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00008297
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008298- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
8299 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00008300
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008301- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
8302 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00008303
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00008304- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
8305 with extended local headers.
8306
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008307- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
8308 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00008309
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008310- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00008311 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
8312 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
8313
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008314- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
8315 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00008316
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008317- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
8318 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00008319
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008320- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
8321 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00008322
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008323- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
8324 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00008325
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008326- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
8327 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00008328
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00008329- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008330 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00008331 Textbox.gather().
8332
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00008333- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
8334 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00008335 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
8336 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00008337
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00008338- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
8339 that array types do not live longer than needed.
8340
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00008341- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
8342 and when creating a recursive instance.
8343
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008344- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
8345 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
8346 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00008347
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00008348- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
8349 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
8350 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
8351
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008352- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
8353 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00008354
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008355- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00008356 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
8357
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008358- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00008359 good for long regular expression matches.
8360
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008361- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
8362 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00008363
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00008364- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
8365 the current context.
8366
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00008367- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
8368 zipfile module.
8369
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00008370- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
8371
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008372- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
8373 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00008374
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00008375- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
8376
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00008377- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
8378
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008379- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
8380 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00008381
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00008382- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
8383
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008384- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
8385 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00008386
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008387- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
8388 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00008389
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00008390- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
8391
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00008392- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
8393 Tcl objects.
8394
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00008395- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
8396
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008397- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
8398 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
8399 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
8400 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00008401
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008402- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
8403 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00008404
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008405- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
8406 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00008407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008408- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
8409 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00008410
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008411- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
8412 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00008413
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00008414- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
8415 method used universal newlines.
8416
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00008417- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
8418 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
8419
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00008420- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
8421 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
8422
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00008423- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
8424 files are updated.
8425
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008426- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
8427 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00008428
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00008429- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
8430 configured with --with-system-ffi.
8431
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00008432- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00008433 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00008434
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00008435- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
8436
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008437- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
8438 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
8439 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00008440
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008441- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
8442 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00008443
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00008444- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00008445
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00008446- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
8447
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008448- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
8449 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00008450
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00008451- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
8452 to be orderable to properly represent them.
8453
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00008454- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
8455
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00008456- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
8457
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008458- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
8459 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
8460 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00008461
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00008462- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
8463 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
8464
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008465- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
8466 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00008467
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008468- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
8469 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00008470
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00008471- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
8472
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00008473- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
8474
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00008475- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
8476 syllables.
8477
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008478- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
8479 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00008480
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00008481- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
8482
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00008483- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
8484 represent the result in a single character.
8485
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00008486- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
8487
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00008488- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
8489
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00008490- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
8491 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
8492 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
8493
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00008494- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
8495
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008496- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
8497 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00008498
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008499- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
8500 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
8501 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00008502
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008503- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
8504 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
8505 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00008506
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00008507- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008508 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
8509 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00008510
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008511- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
8512 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00008513
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008514- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
8515 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00008516
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00008517- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
8518
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00008519- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
8520
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008521- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
8522 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
8523 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00008524
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00008525- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
8526
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00008527- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
8528
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00008529- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
8530 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
8531
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00008532- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
8533
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00008534- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
8535
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00008536- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8537
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008538- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
8539 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00008540
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008541- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
8542 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00008543
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00008544- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
8545 the directories).
8546
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00008547- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
8548 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
8549 injecting HTML into the error page.
8550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008551- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
8552 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00008553
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008554- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
8555 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00008556
8557- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
8558
8559- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
8560
8561- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
8562 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
8563 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
8564
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00008565- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
8566 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
8567 ".cpp" too.
8568
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00008569- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008570 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
8571 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
8572 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00008573
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008574- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
8575 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00008576
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008577- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
8578 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00008579
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00008580- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
8581 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
8582 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
8583 closes patch #723312.
8584
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00008585- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
8586 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00008587 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00008588
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00008589- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
8590
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00008591- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
8592 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
8593
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00008594- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
8595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008596- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
8597 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00008598 directories.
8599
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00008600- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
8601 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
8602 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
8603 trying Mozilla variants.
8604
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00008605- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
8606
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00008607- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
8608 initialization failed.
8609
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00008610- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008611 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
8612 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00008613
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008614- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
8615 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
8616 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00008617
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008618- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
8619 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00008620 correctly now.
8621
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00008622- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
8623
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008624- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
8625 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00008626
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00008627- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
8628
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008629- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
8630 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
8631 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00008632
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008633- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
8634 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
8635 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
8636 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00008637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008638- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
8639 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
8640 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00008641
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00008642- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
8643 whitespace while wrapping.
8644
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00008645- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008646 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
8647 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00008648
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008649- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
8650 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
8651 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00008652
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00008653- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
8654 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
8655
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008656- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
8657 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00008658
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00008659- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
8660 concatenation in robotparser.
8661
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00008662- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008663 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
8664 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00008665
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00008666- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
8667 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
8668
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00008669- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
8670
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008671- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
8672 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
8673 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00008674
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008675- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
8676 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
8677 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00008678
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008679- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
8680 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00008681 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00008682
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00008683- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
8684 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
8685
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00008686- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
8687 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
8688
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00008689- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
8690 returned string up to the first NUL character.
8691
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00008692- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
8693
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00008694- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
8695
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008696- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
8697 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
8698 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00008699
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00008700- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
8701
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008702- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
8703 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
8704 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
8705 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
8706 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
8707 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00008708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008709- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
8710 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00008711
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00008712- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
8713 comprehensive test suite for the module.
8714
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00008715- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
8716 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
8717
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008718- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
8719 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
8720 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00008721
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00008722- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00008723 in HTMLParser.
8724
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00008725- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
8726 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
8727
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00008728- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
8729
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00008730- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
8731
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00008732- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
8733
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00008734- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00008735
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00008736- Added itertools.izip_longest().
8737
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008738- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
8739 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00008740
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00008741- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
8742
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00008743- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
8744 doesn't exist.
8745
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00008746- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
8747
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00008748- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
8749
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008750- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00008751
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008752- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
8753 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00008754
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008755- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
8756 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00008757
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008758- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
8759 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00008760
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00008761- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00008762 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00008763
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00008764- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
8765 iso8859_16.
8766
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008767- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
8768 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
8769 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
8770 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00008771
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00008772- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
8773
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00008774- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
8775 directories.
8776
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00008777- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
8778
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008779- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
8780 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00008781
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008782- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00008783 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008784
8785- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00008786 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008787
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00008788- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008789
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008790- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
8791 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00008792
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00008793- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
8794
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00008795- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
8796 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
8797 parameterless foreign function calls work.
8798
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00008799- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
8800
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00008801- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
8802 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
8803 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
8804
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00008805- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
8806 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
8807
8808- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
8809 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
8810
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008811- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
8812 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
8813 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00008814
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008815- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
8816 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00008817
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00008818- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
8819
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008820- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
8821 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00008822
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008823- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
8824 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00008825
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008826- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
8827 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00008828
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008829- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
8830 separated lists read from logging config files.
8831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008832- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
8833 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
8834 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008835
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008836- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
8837 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00008838
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00008839- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
8840
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008841- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
8842 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00008843
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00008844- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
8845
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00008846- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
8847
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008848- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
8849 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00008850
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00008851- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
8852 regular files.
8853
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00008854- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
8855
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008856- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
8857 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00008858
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008859- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
8860 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00008861
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00008862- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
8863 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
8864
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00008865- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
8866 file name mangling.
8867
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008868- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
8869 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00008870
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00008871- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
8872
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008873- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00008874 HTTPConnection.request().
8875
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00008876- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
8877 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
8878 objects.
8879
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008880- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
8881 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
8882 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00008883
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008884- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
8885 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
8886 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00008887
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00008888- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00008889
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00008890- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00008891
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00008892- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
8893
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00008894- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00008895 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00008896
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00008897- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
8898
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00008899- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
8900 GNU modes.
8901
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00008902- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008903 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00008904 opcode.
8905
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00008906- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
8907 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
8908 statement (bug #1586513).
8909
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00008910- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
8911 correctly.
8912
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00008913- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
8914
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008915- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
8916 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00008917
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00008918- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
8919 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
8920 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
8921
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008922- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
8923 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
8924 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00008925
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00008926- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
8927
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00008928- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
8929
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008930- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
8931 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00008932
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008933- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
8934 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00008935
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00008936- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
8937 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
8938
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00008939- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
8940 with a slash.
8941
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00008942- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
8943 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
8944
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00008945- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008946 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00008947
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00008948- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
8949 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
8950 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
8951
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008952- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
8953 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00008954
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008955- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
8956 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00008957
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008958- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
8959 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00008960
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00008961- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
8962
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00008963- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00008964 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00008965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008966- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
8967 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00008968
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008969- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
8970 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00008971
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00008972- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
8973
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008974- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
8975 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
8976 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00008977
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008978- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
8979 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
8980 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00008981
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008982- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
8983 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
8984 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
8985 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00008986
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008987- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00008988 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
8989 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008990 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
8991 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
8992 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00008993
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008994- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
8995 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00008996
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008997Extension Modules
8998-----------------
8999
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00009000- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00009001
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00009002- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
9003
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00009004- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
9005
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00009006- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00009007
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009008- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
9009 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00009010
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009011- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
9012 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00009013
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009014- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
9015 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00009016
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00009017- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
9018
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00009019- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
9020
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009021- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
9022 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00009023
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00009024- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
9025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009026- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
9027 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00009028
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00009029- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
9030
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009031- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
9032 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00009033
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009034- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00009035 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
9036 parameter.
9037
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009038- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
9039 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
9040 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
9041 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00009042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009043- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
9044 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00009045
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009046- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
9047 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00009048
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009049- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
9050 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
9051 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00009052
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009053- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
9054 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00009055
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00009056- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
9057
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00009058- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
9059
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009060- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
9061 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
9062 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00009063
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009064- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
9065 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00009066
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00009067- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
9068
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00009069- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
9070
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009071- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
9072 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
9073 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
9074 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00009075
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00009076- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
9077 get_completion_type to readline.
9078
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00009079- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
9080 structure.
9081
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00009082- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
9083
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00009084- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
9085
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00009086- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
9087 intended for RECNO databases.
9088
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00009089- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009090 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
9091 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
9092 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
9093 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
9094 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
9095 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00009096
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00009097- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
9098
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00009099- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
9100
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009101- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
9102 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
9103 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
9104 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
9105 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00009106
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00009107- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
9108 error in spite of a succesful compression.
9109
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00009110- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
9111 of Py_ssize_t.
9112
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00009113- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
9114 fractional times. With unittest.
9115
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009116- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
9117 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
9118 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00009119
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00009120- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
9121
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00009122- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
9123
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00009124- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
9125
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00009126- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
9127
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009128- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00009129 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00009130
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009131- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
9132 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00009133
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009134- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
9135 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00009136
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00009137- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
9138 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
9139
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009140- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
9141 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
9142 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00009143
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00009144- Speed up function calls into the math module.
9145
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00009146- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
9147 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
9148 does.
9149
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00009150- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
9151
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00009152- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
9153
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00009154- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
9155
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00009156- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
9157
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00009158- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
9159 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
9160
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00009161- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
9162 datetime's strftime function.
9163
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00009164- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
9165
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00009166- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
9167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009168- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
9169 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00009170
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00009171- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
9172
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00009173- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009174 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
9175 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00009176
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009177- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
9178 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00009179
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00009180- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009181 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
9182 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00009183 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
9184 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00009185 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00009186 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009187
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00009188- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
9189 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
9190 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
9191 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
9192
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00009193- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
9194 were transposed.
9195
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00009196- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
9197 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00009198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009199- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
9200 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
9201 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00009202
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00009203- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
9204
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00009205- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
9206
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00009207- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
9208
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00009209- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00009210
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00009211- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
9212 databases without a DBEnv.
9213
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00009214- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
9215
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03009216IDLE
9217----
9218
9219- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
9220 started with that option.
9221
9222- IDLE: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
9223 #299092).
9224
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009225Tests
9226-----
9227
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00009228- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00009229
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009230- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
9231 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00009232
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009233- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
9234 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
9235 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00009236
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00009237- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
9238 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00009239
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009240- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
9241 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00009242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009243- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
9244 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
9245 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00009246
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00009247- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
9248
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009249- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
9250 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
9251 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00009252
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00009253- Added some tests for modulefinder.
9254
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00009255- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
9256
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00009257- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
9258 number properly.
9259
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009260- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
9261 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009262
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00009263Tools
9264-----
9265
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009266- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
9267 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
9268 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00009269 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00009270
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009271- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
9272 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
9273 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00009274
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00009275- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
9276 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
9277
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009278- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
9279 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00009280
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009281- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
9282 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00009283
9284- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009285 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
9286 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00009287
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009288
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009289Documentation
9290-------------
9291
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00009292- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
9293 include new optional delay argument.
9294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009295- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
9296 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
9297 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00009298
9299- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
9300 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
9301
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00009302- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
9303 Python tutorial.
9304
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00009305- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
9306
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009307- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
9308 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00009309
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00009310- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
9311 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
9312
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00009313- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
9314 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
9315
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00009316- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
9317
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00009318- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
9319 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
9320
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00009321- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00009322 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
9323
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00009324- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
9325 docs.
9326
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00009327- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
9328
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00009329- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
9330 string pointed to by its parameter.
9331
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00009332- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
9333
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00009334- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009335 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
9336 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
9337 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00009338
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009339
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00009340Tools/Demos
9341-----------
9342
9343- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00009344
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00009345- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009346 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
9347 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00009348
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00009349- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
9350 file not to get reported properly.
9351
9352
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009353Build
9354-----
9355
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009356- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
9357 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
9358 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00009359
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00009360- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
9361 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
9362
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00009363- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
9364
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009365- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009366
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009367- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
9368 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
9369 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
9370 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009371
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009372- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
9373 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009374
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00009375- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
9376
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00009377- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
9378 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
9379 without this option!
9380
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00009381- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
9382
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00009383- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009384 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
9385 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
9386 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00009387
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009388- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
9389 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00009390
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00009391- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
9392
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00009393- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
9394
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009395- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
9396 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00009397
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009398- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
9399 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00009400
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00009401- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
9402 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
9403 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
9404
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00009405- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
9406 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
9407
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00009408- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
9409
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00009410- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
9411
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009412- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
9413 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00009414
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00009415- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00009416 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
9417
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009418- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
9419 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00009420
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00009421- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
9422
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009423- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00009424
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00009425- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
9426
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00009427- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
9428
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00009429- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009430
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009431- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
9432 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
9433 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00009434
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009435
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009436C API
9437-----
9438
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009439- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
9440 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
9441 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
9442 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00009443
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009444- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
9445 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
9446 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00009447
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00009448- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00009449
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009450- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
9451 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
9452 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009453
9454- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
9455
9456- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
9457 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
9458
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009459- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
9460 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
9461 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
9462 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009463
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009464- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
9465 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009467- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
9468 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
9469 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009470
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009471- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
9472 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009473
9474- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
9475
9476- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
9477
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009478- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
9479
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009480- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
9481
9482- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
9483 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
9484
9485- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
9486 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
9487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009488- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
9489 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
9490 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009491
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009492- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
9493 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009494
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009495- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
9496 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00009497
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009498
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00009499Windows
9500-------
9501
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009502- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
9503 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
9504 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
9505 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00009506
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009507- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
9508 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00009509
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00009510- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
9511
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00009512
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009513Mac
9514---
9515
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00009516- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
9517
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00009518- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
9519
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009520- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
9521 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
9522 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00009523
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00009524----
9525
9526**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**