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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +00007What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 2?
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-2006*
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12Core and builtins
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Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +000015- Patch #837242: ``id()`` of any Python object always gives a positive
16 number now, which might be a long integer. ``PyLong_FromVoidPtr`` and
17 ``PyLong_AsVoidPtr`` have been changed accordingly. Note that it has
18 never been correct to implement a ``hash()`` method that returns the
19 ``id()`` of an object:
Martin v. Löwis0bc2ab92006-04-10 20:28:17 +000020
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +000021 def __hash__(self):
22 return id(self) # WRONG
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24 because a hash result must be a (short) Python int but it was always
25 possible for ``id()`` to return a Python long. However, because ``id()``
26 cuold return negative values before, on a 32-bit box an ``id()`` result
27 was always usable as a hash value before this patch. That's no longer
28 necessarily so.
29
30- Python on OS X 10.3 and above now uses dlopen() (via dynload_shlib.c)
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +000031 to load extension modules and now provides the dl module. As a result,
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +000032 sys.setdlopenflags() now works correctly on these systems. (SF patch
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +000033 #1454844)
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Phillip J. Eby51dd7d92006-04-11 01:21:31 +000035- Patch #1463867: enhanced garbage collection to allow cleanup of cycles
36 involving generators that have paused outside of any ``try`` or ``with``
37 blocks. (In 2.5a1, a paused generator that was part of a reference
38 cycle could not be garbage collected, regardless of whether it was
39 paused in a ``try`` or ``with`` block.)
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +000040
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000041Extension Modules
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Gregory P. Smith7f5b6f42006-04-08 07:10:51 +000044- Fix bsddb.db.DBError derived exceptions so they can be unpickled.
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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000046Library
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Phillip J. Eby47032112006-04-11 01:07:43 +000049- The warnings, linecache, inspect, traceback, site, and doctest modules
50 were updated to work correctly with modules imported from zipfiles or
51 via other PEP 302 __loader__ objects.
52
Martin v. Löwis17de8ff2006-04-10 15:55:37 +000053- Patch #1467770: Reduce usage of subprocess._active to processes which
54 the application hasn't waited on.
55
Martin v. Löwisb04dee92006-04-10 08:34:21 +000056- Patch #1462222: Fix Tix.Grid.
57
Neal Norwitza31bf182006-04-09 03:35:43 +000058- Fix exception when doing glob.glob('anything*/')
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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000060Build
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Martin v. Löwis10acfd02006-04-10 12:39:36 +000063- Patch #1429775: Link extension modules with the shared libpython.
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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000065C API
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68Tests
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Phillip J. Eby51dd7d92006-04-11 01:21:31 +000071- The test_contextlib test in 2.5a1 wasn't actually run unless you ran
72 it separately and by hand. It also wasn't cleaning up its changes to
73 the current Decimal context.
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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000076Documentation
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Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +000081What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1?
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Anthony Baxterebed3f62006-04-03 15:03:44 +000084*Release date: 05-APR-2006*
Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +000085
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +000086Core and builtins
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Martin v. Löwisea62d252006-04-03 10:56:49 +000089- Bug #1421664: sys.stderr.encoding is now set to the same value as
90 sys.stdout.encoding.
91
Neal Norwitz92e212f2006-04-03 04:48:37 +000092- __import__ accepts keyword arguments.
93
Georg Brandlccadf842006-03-31 18:54:53 +000094- Patch #1460496: round() now accepts keyword arguments.
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Anthony Baxter262c00a2006-03-30 10:53:17 +000096- Fixed bug #1459029 - unicode reprs were double-escaped.
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Hye-Shik Changd478f342006-03-23 12:32:36 +000098- Patch #1396919: The system scope threads are reenabled on FreeBSD
99 5.4 and later versions.
100
Neal Norwitze98ccf62006-03-23 05:39:47 +0000101- Bug #1115379: Compiling a Unicode string with an encoding declaration
102 now gives a SyntaxError.
103
Georg Brandlabd1ff82006-03-18 07:59:59 +0000104- Previously, Python code had no easy way to access the contents of a
105 cell object. Now, a ``cell_contents`` attribute has been added
106 (closes patch #1170323).
107
Tim Peterscf79aac2006-03-16 01:14:46 +0000108- Patch #1123430: Python's small-object allocator now returns an arena to
109 the system ``free()`` when all memory within an arena becomes unused
110 again. Prior to Python 2.5, arenas (256KB chunks of memory) were never
111 freed. Some applications will see a drop in virtual memory size now,
112 especially long-running applications that, from time to time, temporarily
113 use a large number of small objects. Note that when Python returns an
114 arena to the platform C's ``free()``, there's no guarantee that the
115 platform C will in turn return that memory to the operating system. The
116 effect of the patch is to stop making that impossible, and in tests it
117 appears to be effective at least on Microsoft C and gcc-based systems.
118 Thanks to Evan Jones for hard work and patience.
119
Georg Brandl533ff6f2006-03-08 18:09:27 +0000120- Patch #1434038: property() now uses the getter's docstring if there is
121 no "doc" argument given. This makes it possible to legitimately use
122 property() as a decorator to produce a read-only property.
123
Guido van Rossum9aa37ab2006-03-07 18:54:08 +0000124- PEP 357, patch 1436368: add an __index__ method to int/long and a matching
125 nb_index slot to the PyNumberMethods struct. The slot is consulted instead
126 of requiring an int or long in slicing and a few other contexts, enabling
127 other objects (e.g. Numeric Python's integers) to be used as slice indices.
128
Neal Norwitz995acdf2006-03-07 05:01:00 +0000129- Fixed various bugs reported by Coverity's Prevent tool.
130
Brett Cannonbf364092006-03-01 04:25:17 +0000131- PEP 352, patch #1104669: Make exceptions new-style objects. Introduced the
132 new exception base class, BaseException, which has a new message attribute.
133 KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit to directly inherit from BaseException now.
134 Raising a string exception now raises a DeprecationWarning.
135
Thomas Woutersfb609f42006-02-28 16:37:25 +0000136- Patch #1438387, PEP 328: relative and absolute imports. Imports can now be
137 explicitly relative, using 'from .module import name' to mean 'from the same
138 package as this module is in. Imports without dots still default to the
139 old relative-then-absolute, unless 'from __future__ import
140 absolute_import' is used.
141
Brett Cannona7446e32006-02-27 23:39:10 +0000142- Properly check if 'warnings' raises an exception (usually when a filter set
143 to "error" is triggered) when raising a warning for raising string
144 exceptions.
145
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000146- CO_GENERATOR_ALLOWED is no longer defined. This behavior is the default.
Neal Norwitz0023a2f2006-02-27 23:24:48 +0000147 The name was removed from Include/code.h.
148
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000149- PEP 308: conditional expressions were added: (x if cond else y).
Neal Norwitzeb651252006-02-27 16:47:12 +0000150
Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +0000151- Patch 1433928:
152 - The copy module now "copies" function objects (as atomic objects).
153 - dict.__getitem__ now looks for a __missing__ hook before raising
154 KeyError.
155
Tim Peters84ef21c2006-02-28 20:39:06 +0000156- PEP 343: with statement implemented. Needs ``from __future__ import
157 with_statement``. Use of 'with' as a variable will generate a warning.
158 Use of 'as' as a variable will also generate a warning (unless it's
Neal Norwitz055ec242006-02-28 20:06:49 +0000159 part of an import statement).
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +0000160 The following objects have __context__ methods:
161 - The built-in file type.
162 - The thread.LockType type.
163 - The following types defined by the threading module:
164 Lock, RLock, Condition, Semaphore, BoundedSemaphore.
165 - The decimal.Context class.
Guido van Rossumc2e20742006-02-27 22:32:47 +0000166
Marc-André Lemburgfe4b34c2006-02-19 15:22:22 +0000167- Fix the encodings package codec search function to only search
168 inside its own package. Fixes problem reported in patch #1433198.
169
170 Note: Codec packages should implement and register their own
171 codec search function. PEP 100 has the details.
172
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000173- PEP 353: Using ssize_t as the index type.
174
Neal Norwitzfc76d632006-01-10 06:03:13 +0000175- Patch #1400181, fix unicode string formatting to not use the locale.
176 This is how string objects work. u'%f' could use , instead of .
177 for the decimal point. Now both strings and unicode always use periods.
178
Neal Norwitz671b9e32006-01-09 07:07:12 +0000179- Bug #1244610, #1392915, fix build problem on OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.8.
180 configure would break checking curses.h.
181
Georg Brandlcd4d1e82005-12-27 17:37:07 +0000182- Bug #959576: The pwd module is now builtin. This allows Python to be
183 built on UNIX platforms without $HOME set.
184
Neal Norwitzc10978f2005-12-19 06:07:16 +0000185- Bug #1072182, fix some potential problems if characters are signed.
186
Neal Norwitz5d0ad502005-12-19 04:27:42 +0000187- Bug #889500, fix line number on SyntaxWarning for global declarations.
188
Neal Norwitzdb83eb32005-12-18 05:29:30 +0000189- Bug #1378022, UTF-8 files with a leading BOM crashed the interpreter.
190
Neal Norwitze7214a12005-12-18 05:03:17 +0000191- Support for converting hex strings to floats no longer works.
192 This was not portable. float('0x3') now raises a ValueError.
193
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000194- Patch #1382163: Expose Subversion revision number to Python. New C API
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +0000195 function Py_GetBuildNumber(). New attribute sys.subversion. Build number
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000196 is now displayed in interactive prompt banner.
197
Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000198- Implementation of PEP 341 - Unification of try/except and try/finally.
199 "except" clauses can now be written together with a "finally" clause in
Neal Norwitz11ca77e2005-12-17 22:24:12 +0000200 one try statement instead of two nested ones. Patch #1355913.
Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000201
Hye-Shik Chang835b2432005-12-17 04:38:31 +0000202- Bug #1379994: Builtin unicode_escape and raw_unicode_escape codec
203 now encodes backslash correctly.
204
Martin v. Löwisb45b3152005-11-28 17:34:23 +0000205- Patch #1350409: Work around signal handling bug in Visual Studio 2005.
206
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000207- Bug #1281408: Py_BuildValue now works correctly even with unsigned longs
Georg Brandlf06e30a2005-11-24 15:37:42 +0000208 and long longs.
209
Neal Norwitz67715f02005-11-09 06:59:35 +0000210- SF Bug #1350188, "setdlopenflags" leads to crash upon "import"
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000211 It was possible for dlerror() to return a NULL pointer, so
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000212 it will now use a default error message in this case.
Neal Norwitz67715f02005-11-09 06:59:35 +0000213
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000214- Replaced most Unicode charmap codecs with new ones using the
215 new Unicode translate string feature in the builtin charmap
216 codec; the codecs were created from the mapping tables available
217 at ftp.unicode.org and contain a few updates (e.g. the Mac OS
218 encodings now include a mapping for the Apple logo)
219
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000220- Added a few more codecs for Mac OS encodings
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000221
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000222- Sped up some Unicode operations.
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000223
Martin v. Löwisbd260da2006-02-26 19:42:26 +0000224- A new AST parser implementation was completed. The abstract
225 syntax tree is available for read-only (non-compile) access
Martin v. Löwis577b5b92006-02-27 15:23:19 +0000226 to Python code; an _ast module was added.
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000227
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000228- SF bug #1167751: fix incorrect code being produced for generator expressions.
Neal Norwitz16af7342005-10-21 06:25:33 +0000229 The following code now raises a SyntaxError: foo(a = i for i in range(10))
230
Neal Norwitz708e51a2005-10-03 04:48:15 +0000231- SF Bug #976608: fix SystemError when mtime of an imported file is -1.
232
Neal Norwitz11bd1192005-10-03 00:54:56 +0000233- SF Bug #887946: fix segfault when redirecting stdin from a directory.
234 Provide a warning when a directory is passed on the command line.
235
Neal Norwitz40d37812005-10-02 01:48:49 +0000236- Fix segfault with invalid coding.
237
238- SF bug #772896: unknown encoding results in MemoryError.
239
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000240- All iterators now have a Boolean value of True. Formerly, some iterators
Raymond Hettinger6b27cda2005-09-24 21:23:05 +0000241 supported a __len__() method which evaluated to False when the iterator
242 was empty.
243
Guido van Rossum630db602005-09-20 18:49:54 +0000244- On 64-bit platforms, when __len__() returns a value that cannot be
245 represented as a C int, raise OverflowError.
246
Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000247- test__locale is skipped on OS X < 10.4 (only partial locale support is
Walter Dörwald6611a8b2005-10-09 19:28:35 +0000248 present).
Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000249
Georg Brandl80bbf3f2005-09-14 19:38:29 +0000250- SF bug #893549: parsing keyword arguments was broken with a few format
251 codes.
252
Guido van Rossum8ee3e5a2005-09-14 18:09:42 +0000253- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on AIX 5.3
254 with IBM's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1284289). This also closes SF
255 bug #105470: test_pwd fails on 64bit system (Opteron).
256
Guido van Rossum539c6622005-09-14 17:49:54 +0000257- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on HP-UX 11 on
258 Itanium2 with HP's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1225212).
259
Georg Brandl4550b8d2005-08-26 06:43:52 +0000260- Disallow keyword arguments for type constructors that don't use them
Georg Brandl02c42872005-08-26 06:42:30 +0000261 (fixes bug #1119418).
262
Martin v. Löwisd35edda2005-08-24 08:39:24 +0000263- Forward UnicodeDecodeError into SyntaxError for source encoding errors.
264
Barry Warsawe2eca0b2005-08-15 18:14:19 +0000265- SF bug #900092: When tracing (e.g. for hotshot), restore 'return' events for
266 exceptions that cause a function to exit.
267
Raymond Hettinger9f1a6792005-07-31 01:16:36 +0000268- The implementation of set() and frozenset() was revised to use its
269 own internal data structure. Memory consumption is reduced by 1/3
270 and there are modest speed-ups as well. The API is unchanged.
271
Tim Petersde7990b2005-07-17 23:45:23 +0000272- SF bug #1238681: freed pointer is used in longobject.c:long_pow().
273
Michael W. Hudson0edc7a02005-07-12 10:21:19 +0000274- SF bug #1229429: PyObject_CallMethod failed to decrement some
275 reference counts in some error exit cases.
276
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000277- SF bug #1185883: Python's small-object memory allocator took over
278 a block managed by the platform C library whenever a realloc specified
279 a small new size. However, there's no portable way to know then how
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000280 much of the address space following the pointer is valid, so there's no
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000281 portable way to copy data from the C-managed block into Python's
282 small-object space without risking a memory fault. Python's small-object
283 realloc now leaves such blocks under the control of the platform C
284 realloc.
285
Michael W. Hudsonb8963812005-07-05 15:21:58 +0000286- SF bug #1232517: An overflow error was not detected properly when
287 attempting to convert a large float to an int in os.utime().
288
Raymond Hettinger3296e692005-06-29 23:29:56 +0000289- SF bug #1224347: hex longs now print with lowercase letters just
290 like their int counterparts.
291
Michael W. Hudson188d4362005-06-20 16:52:57 +0000292- SF bug #1163563: the original fix for bug #1010677 ("thread Module
293 Breaks PyGILState_Ensure()") broke badly in the case of multiple
294 interpreter states; back out that fix and do a better job (see
295 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-June/054258.html
296 for a longer write-up of the problem).
297
Michael W. Hudsondf888462005-06-03 14:41:55 +0000298- SF patch #1180995: marshal now uses a binary format by default when
299 serializing floats.
300
Michael W. Hudsonda85a902005-06-01 11:34:22 +0000301- SF patch #1181301: on platforms that appear to use IEEE 754 floats,
302 the routines that promise to produce IEEE 754 binary representations
303 of floats now simply copy bytes around.
304
Skip Montanarobbf12ba2005-05-20 03:07:06 +0000305- bug #967182: disallow opening files with 'wU' or 'aU' as specified by PEP
306 278.
307
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000308- patch #1109424: int, long, float, complex, and unicode now check for the
309 proper magic slot for type conversions when subclassed. Previously the
310 magic slot was ignored during conversion. Semantics now match the way
311 subclasses of str always behaved. int/long/float, conversion of an instance
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +0000312 to the base class has been moved to the proper nb_* magic slot and out of
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000313 PyNumber_*().
314 Thanks Walter Dörwald.
315
Barry Warsawc8d907c2005-04-19 23:43:40 +0000316- Descriptors defined in C with a PyGetSetDef structure, where the setter is
317 NULL, now raise an AttributeError when attempting to set or delete the
318 attribute. Previously a TypeError was raised, but this was inconsistent
319 with the equivalent pure-Python implementation.
320
Michael W. Hudson774479c2005-04-18 08:46:17 +0000321- It is now safe to call PyGILState_Release() before
322 PyEval_InitThreads() (note that if there is reason to believe there
323 are multiple threads around you still must call PyEval_InitThreads()
324 before using the Python API; this fix is for extension modules that
325 have no way of knowing if Python is multi-threaded yet).
326
Michael W. Hudsone3afc592005-04-07 10:11:19 +0000327- Typing Ctrl-C whilst raw_input() was waiting in a build with threads
328 disabled caused a crash.
329
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +0000330- Bug #1165306: instancemethod_new allowed the creation of a method
331 with im_class == im_self == NULL, which caused a crash when called.
332
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000333- Move exception finalisation later in the shutdown process - this
Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +0000334 fixes the crash seen in bug #1165761
335
Raymond Hettinger96229b12005-03-11 06:49:40 +0000336- Added two new builtins, any() and all().
337
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +0000338- Defining a class with empty parentheses is now allowed
Brett Cannonf4189912005-04-09 02:30:16 +0000339 (e.g., ``class C(): pass`` is no longer a syntax error).
340 Patch #1176012 added support to the 'parser' module and 'compiler' package
341 (thanks to logistix for that added support).
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +0000342
Martin v. Löwis96d743e2005-03-03 23:00:26 +0000343- Patch #1115086: Support PY_LONGLONG in structmember.
344
Raymond Hettingerb67cc802005-03-03 16:45:19 +0000345- Bug #1155938: new style classes did not check that __init__() was
346 returning None.
347
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000348- Patch #802188: Report characters after line continuation character
Martin v. Löwis4bf108d2005-03-03 11:45:45 +0000349 ('\') with a specific error message.
350
Martin v. Löwisff232d72005-03-03 09:24:38 +0000351- Bug #723201: Raise a TypeError for passing bad objects to 'L' format.
352
Michael W. Hudson8e1afab2005-02-17 14:55:21 +0000353- Bug #1124295: the __name__ attribute of file objects was
354 inadvertently made inaccessible in restricted mode.
355
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000356- Bug #1074011: closing sys.std{out,err} now causes a flush() and
Martin v. Löwis8e3ca8a2005-01-23 09:41:49 +0000357 an ferror() call.
358
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +0000359- min() and max() now support key= arguments with the same meaning as in
360 list.sort().
361
Raymond Hettingerc34f8672005-01-02 06:17:33 +0000362- The peephole optimizer now performs simple constant folding in expressions:
363 (2+3) --> (5).
364
Raymond Hettingera422c342005-01-11 03:03:27 +0000365- set and frozenset objects can now be marshalled. SF #1098985.
366
Michael W. Hudsonfaa76482005-01-31 17:09:25 +0000367- Bug #1077106: Poor argument checking could cause memory corruption
368 in calls to os.read().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000369
Jeremy Hyltonab630502005-02-04 18:44:06 +0000370- The parser did not complain about future statements in illegal
371 positions. It once again reports a syntax error if a future
372 statement occurs after anything other than a doc string.
373
Neil Schemenauercf52c072005-08-12 17:34:58 +0000374- Change the %s format specifier for str objects so that it returns a
375 unicode instance if the argument is not an instance of basestring and
376 calling __str__ on the argument returns a unicode instance.
377
Tim Petersf4e69282006-02-27 17:15:31 +0000378- Patch #1413181: changed ``PyThreadState_Delete()`` to forget about the
379 current thread state when the auto-GIL-state machinery knows about
380 it (since the thread state is being deleted, continuing to remember it
381 can't help, but can hurt if another thread happens to get created with
382 the same thread id).
383
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000384Extension Modules
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386
Georg Brandl43f08a82006-03-31 18:01:16 +0000387- Patch #1380952: fix SSL objects timing out on consecutive read()s
388
Neal Norwitz05a45592006-03-20 06:30:08 +0000389- Patch #1309579: wait3 and wait4 were added to the posix module.
390
Anthony Baxterfa869072006-03-20 05:21:58 +0000391- Patch #1231053: The audioop module now supports encoding/decoding of alaw.
392 In addition, the existing ulaw code was updated.
393
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +0000394- RFE #567972: Socket objects' family, type and proto properties are
Georg Brandl72d7a782006-03-22 06:44:14 +0000395 now exposed via new attributes.
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +0000396
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +0000397- Everything under lib-old was removed. This includes the following modules:
398 Para, addpack, cmp, cmpcache, codehack, dircmp, dump, find, fmt, grep,
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +0000399 lockfile, newdir, ni, packmail, poly, rand, statcache, tb, tzparse,
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +0000400 util, whatsound, whrandom, zmod
401
402- The following modules were removed: regsub, reconvert, regex, regex_syntax.
403
404- re and sre were swapped, so help(re) provides full help. importing sre
Neal Norwitzefbeaef2006-03-16 06:40:39 +0000405 is deprecated. The undocumented re.engine variable no longer exists.
406
Hye-Shik Changabb903f2006-03-13 10:20:08 +0000407- Bug #1448490: Fixed a bug that ISO-2022 codecs could not handle
408 SS2 (single-shift 2) escape sequences correctly.
409
Martin v. Löwis480f1bb2006-03-09 23:38:20 +0000410- The unicodedata module was updated to the 4.1 version of the Unicode
411 database. The 3.2 version is still available as unicodedata.db_3_2_0
412 for applications that require this specific version (such as IDNA).
413
Neal Norwitzb62c4332006-03-04 18:35:47 +0000414- The timing module is no longer built by default. It was deprecated
415 in PEP 4 in Python 2.0 or earlier.
416
Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +0000417- Patch 1433928: Added a new type, defaultdict, to the collections module.
418 This uses the new __missing__ hook behavior added to dict (see above).
419
Georg Brandldbd83392006-02-20 09:42:33 +0000420- Bug #854823: socketmodule now builds on Sun platforms even when
421 INET_ADDRSTRLEN is not defined.
422
Georg Brandlf4f44152006-02-18 22:29:33 +0000423- Patch #1393157: os.startfile() now has an optional argument to specify
424 a "command verb" to invoke on the file.
425
Neal Norwitz082b2df2006-02-07 07:04:46 +0000426- Bug #876637, prevent stack corruption when socket descriptor
427 is larger than FD_SETSIZE.
428
Neal Norwitz0e6bc8c2006-02-05 05:45:43 +0000429- Patch #1407135, bug #1424041: harmonize mmap behavior of anonymous memory.
430 mmap.mmap(-1, size) now returns anonymous memory in both Unix and Windows.
431 mmap.mmap(0, size) should not be used on Windows for anonymous memory.
432
Martin v. Löwis57a34e82006-02-04 19:12:37 +0000433- Patch #1422385: The nis module now supports access to domains other
434 than the system default domain.
435
Martin v. Löwis14694662006-02-03 12:54:16 +0000436- Use Win32 API to implement os.stat/fstat. As a result, subsecond timestamps
437 are reported, the limit on path name lengths is removed, and stat reports
438 WindowsError now (instead of OSError).
439
Gregory P. Smithcfc4a8d2006-01-29 19:46:23 +0000440- Add bsddb.db.DBEnv.set_tx_timestamp allowing time based database recovery.
441
Neal Norwitz62a21122006-01-25 05:21:55 +0000442- Bug #1413192, fix seg fault in bsddb if a transaction was deleted
443 before the env.
444
Martin v. Löwis11017b12006-01-14 18:12:57 +0000445- Patch #1103116: Basic AF_NETLINK support.
446
Neal Norwitz3b4fff82006-01-11 08:54:45 +0000447- Bug #1402308, (possible) segfault when using mmap.mmap(-1, ...)
448
Neal Norwitz88bbd732006-01-10 07:05:44 +0000449- Bug #1400822, _curses over{lay,write} doesn't work when passing 6 ints.
450 Also fix ungetmouse() which did not accept arguments properly.
451 The code now conforms to the documented signature.
452
Neal Norwitz5e3d8622006-01-09 06:24:35 +0000453- Bug #1400115, Fix segfault when calling curses.panel.userptr()
454 without prior setting of the userptr.
455
Neal Norwitz40c6b472006-01-05 05:43:35 +0000456- Fix 64-bit problems in bsddb.
457
Neal Norwitz8856fb72005-12-18 03:34:22 +0000458- Patch #1365916: fix some unsafe 64-bit mmap methods.
459
Hye-Shik Changc5c57e62005-12-12 11:48:32 +0000460- Bug #1290333: Added a workaround for cjkcodecs' _codecs_cn build
461 problem on AIX.
462
Georg Brandla13c2442005-11-22 19:30:31 +0000463- Bug #869197: os.setgroups rejects long integer arguments
464
Neal Norwitz0f46bbf2005-11-03 05:00:25 +0000465- Bug #1346533, select.poll() doesn't raise an error if timeout > sys.maxint
466
Neal Norwitz7b631792005-11-02 05:26:07 +0000467- Bug #1344508, Fix UNIX mmap leaking file descriptors
468
Neal Norwitzf3396542005-10-28 05:52:22 +0000469- Patch #1338314, Bug #1336623: fix tarfile so it can extract
470 REGTYPE directories from tarfiles written by old programs.
471
Gregory P. Smithe101df92006-01-24 20:09:45 +0000472- Patch #1407992, fixes broken bsddb module db associate when using
473 BerkeleyDB 3.3, 4.0 or 4.1.
474
475- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 4.4
476
477- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 3.2
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000478
Neal Norwitz484d9a42005-09-30 04:46:49 +0000479- Patch #1309009, Fix segfault in pyexpat when the XML document is in latin_1,
480 but Python incorrectly assumes it is in UTF-8 format
481
Georg Brandle677adc2005-09-29 13:40:49 +0000482- Fix parse errors in the readline module when compiling without threads.
483
Hye-Shik Chang9ceebd52005-09-24 14:58:47 +0000484- Patch #1288833: Removed thread lock from socket.getaddrinfo on
485 FreeBSD 5.3 and later versions which got thread-safe getaddrinfo(3).
486
Michael W. Hudson10402a32005-09-22 09:19:01 +0000487- Patches #1298449 and #1298499: Add some missing checks for error
488 returns in cStringIO.c.
489
Neal Norwitz058bde12005-09-21 06:44:25 +0000490- Patch #1297028: fix segfault if call type on MultibyteCodec,
491 MultibyteStreamReader, or MultibyteStreamWriter
492
Neal Norwitzcfe7dd92005-09-19 06:49:27 +0000493- Fix memory leak in posix.access().
494
Martin v. Löwis8b291e22005-09-18 08:17:56 +0000495- Patch #1213831: Fix typo in unicodedata._getcode.
496
Georg Brandlfb1ef852005-09-14 20:53:32 +0000497- Bug #1007046: os.startfile() did not accept unicode strings encoded in
498 the file system encoding.
499
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +0000500- Patch #756021: Special-case socket.inet_aton('255.255.255.255') for
501 platforms that don't have inet_aton().
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +0000502
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +0000503- Bug #1215928: Fix bz2.BZ2File.seek() for 64-bit file offsets.
504
505- Bug #1191043: Fix bz2.BZ2File.(x)readlines for files containing one
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +0000506 line without newlines.
507
Georg Brandl38387b82005-08-24 07:17:40 +0000508- Bug #728515: mmap.resize() now resizes the file on Unix as it did
509 on Windows.
510
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000511- Patch #1180695: Add nanosecond stat resolution, and st_gen,
Martin v. Löwisebd9d5b2005-08-09 15:00:59 +0000512 st_birthtime for FreeBSD.
513
Michael W. Hudson8137bea2005-07-27 20:24:40 +0000514- Patch #1231069: The fcntl.ioctl function now uses the 'I' code for
515 the request code argument, which results in more C-like behaviour
516 for large or negative values.
517
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000518- Bug #1234979: For the argument of thread.Lock.acquire, the Windows
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000519 implementation treated all integer values except 1 as false.
Georg Brandlaf410b52005-07-08 22:26:13 +0000520
Georg Brandl6b95f1d2005-06-03 19:47:00 +0000521- Bug #1194181: bz2.BZ2File didn't handle mode 'U' correctly.
522
Hye-Shik Chang5f937a72005-06-02 13:09:30 +0000523- Patch #1212117: os.stat().st_flags is now accessible as a attribute
524 if available on the platform.
525
Skip Montanaro5ff14922005-05-16 02:42:22 +0000526- Patch #1103951: Expose O_SHLOCK and O_EXLOCK in the posix module if
527 available on the platform.
528
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +0000529- Bug #1166660: The readline module could segfault if hook functions
530 were set in a different thread than that which called readline.
531
Raymond Hettinger4aec61e2005-03-18 21:20:23 +0000532- collections.deque objects now support a remove() method.
533
Raymond Hettinger984f9bb2005-03-09 16:38:48 +0000534- operator.itemgetter() and operator.attrgetter() now support retrieving
535 multiple fields. This provides direct support for sorting on multiple
536 keys (primary, secondary, etc).
537
Martin v. Löwisb60ae992005-03-08 09:10:29 +0000538- os.access now supports Unicode path names on non-Win32 systems.
539
Martin v. Löwisfd78a6f2005-03-04 14:37:01 +0000540- Patches #925152, #1118602: Avoid reading after the end of the buffer
541 in pyexpat.GetInputContext.
542
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000543- Patches #749830, #1144555: allow UNIX mmap size to default to current
Martin v. Löwis7fe60c02005-03-03 11:22:44 +0000544 file size.
545
Raymond Hettinger9c323f82005-02-28 19:39:44 +0000546- Added functional.partial(). See PEP309.
547
Martin v. Löwis9533e342005-02-27 20:33:25 +0000548- Patch #1093585: raise a ValueError for negative history items in readline.
549 {remove_history,replace_history}
550
Fred Drake9c131f22005-01-23 15:16:08 +0000551- The spwd module has been added, allowing access to the shadow password
552 database.
Martin v. Löwisc3001752005-01-23 09:27:24 +0000553
Martin v. Löwisfe33d0b2005-01-16 08:57:39 +0000554- stat_float_times is now True.
555
Raymond Hettingerb0900e62004-12-16 16:23:40 +0000556- array.array objects are now picklable.
557
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +0000558- the cPickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
559 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
560
Raymond Hettingerb2594052004-12-05 09:25:51 +0000561- itertools.islice() now accepts None for the start and step arguments.
562 This allows islice() to work more readily with slices:
563 islice(s.start, s.stop, s.step)
564
Skip Montanaro0af3ade2005-01-13 04:12:31 +0000565- datetime.datetime() now has a strptime class method which can be used to
566 create datetime object using a string and format.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000567
Matthias Klosed77f8b32006-04-03 16:34:56 +0000568- Patch #1117961: Replace the MD5 implementation from RSA Data Security Inc
Matthias Klose8e39ec72006-04-03 16:27:50 +0000569 with the implementation from http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmd5-rfc/.
570
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000571Library
572-------
573
Anthony Baxter93f5b932006-04-03 08:05:07 +0000574- The email module's parsedate_tz function now sets the daylight savings
575 flag to -1 (unknown) since it can't tell from the date whether it should
576 be set.
577
Fred Drakead5177c2006-04-01 22:14:43 +0000578- Patch #624325: urlparse.urlparse() and urlparse.urlsplit() results
579 now sport attributes that provide access to the parts of the result.
580
Georg Brandl7f6b67c2006-04-01 08:35:18 +0000581- Patch #1462498: sgmllib now handles entity and character references
582 in attribute values.
583
Anthony Baxterc51ee692006-04-01 00:57:31 +0000584- Added the sqlite3 package. This is based on pysqlite2.1.3, and provides
Georg Brandl828fdef2006-04-01 08:59:03 +0000585 a DB-API interface in the standard library. You'll need sqlite 3.0.8 or
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000586 later to build this - if you have an earlier version, the C extension
Anthony Baxterc51ee692006-04-01 00:57:31 +0000587 module will not be built.
588
Tim Petersc17976e2006-04-01 00:26:53 +0000589- Bug #1460340: ``random.sample(dict)`` failed in various ways. Dicts
590 aren't officially supported here, and trying to use them will probably
591 raise an exception some day. But dicts have been allowed, and "mostly
592 worked", so support for them won't go away without warning.
593
Georg Brandl338ef7d2006-03-31 18:42:16 +0000594- Bug #1445068: getpass.getpass() can now be given an explicit stream
595 argument to specify where to write the prompt.
596
Georg Brandl22ec80b2006-03-31 18:25:44 +0000597- Patch #1462313, bug #1443328: the pickle modules now can handle classes
598 that have __private names in their __slots__.
599
Neal Norwitz6974a512006-04-10 00:25:01 +0000600- Bug #1250170: mimetools now handles socket.gethostname() failures gracefully.
Georg Brandldd2245f2006-03-31 17:18:06 +0000601
Phillip J. Eby59821cf2006-03-30 02:16:40 +0000602- patch #1457316: "setup.py upload" now supports --identity to select the
603 key to be used for signing the uploaded code.
604
Raymond Hettingerfd3fcf02006-03-24 20:43:29 +0000605- Queue.Queue objects now support .task_done() and .join() methods
606 to make it easier to monitor when daemon threads have completed
607 processing all enqueued tasks. Patch #1455676.
608
Martin v. Löwisbd8dbab2006-03-23 18:18:35 +0000609- popen2.Popen objects now preserve the command in a .cmd attribute.
610
Thomas Hellerc61c0492006-03-22 10:09:27 +0000611- Added the ctypes ffi package.
612
Barry Warsaw4d90bbd2006-03-22 02:45:50 +0000613- email 4.0 package now integrated. This is largely the same as the email 3.0
614 package that was included in Python 2.3, except that PEP 8 module names are
615 now used (e.g. mail.message instead of email.Message). The MIME classes
616 have been moved to a subpackage (e.g. email.mime.text instead of
617 email.MIMEText). The old names are still supported for now. Several
618 deprecated Message methods have been removed and lots of bugs have been
619 fixed. More details can be found in the email package documentation.
620
Walter Dörwald40108c92006-03-27 08:15:44 +0000621- Patches #1436130/#1443155: codecs.lookup() now returns a CodecInfo object
622 (a subclass of tuple) that provides incremental decoders and encoders
623 (a way to use stateful codecs without the stream API). Python functions
624 codecs.getincrementaldecoder() and codecs.getincrementalencoder() as well
625 as C functions PyCodec_IncrementalEncoder() and PyCodec_IncrementalDecoder()
626 have been added.
Walter Dörwaldabb02e52006-03-15 11:35:15 +0000627
Walter Dörwald067db482006-03-15 22:17:27 +0000628- Patch #1359365: Calling next() on a closed StringIO.String object raises
629 a ValueError instead of a StopIteration now (like file and cString.String do).
630 cStringIO.StringIO.isatty() will raise a ValueError now if close() has been
631 called before (like file and StringIO.StringIO do).
Walter Dörwald197e8322006-03-15 22:13:13 +0000632
Martin v. Löwis04824ce2006-03-10 21:26:16 +0000633- A regrtest option -w was added to re-run failed tests in verbose mode.
634
Georg Brandle2b46772006-03-09 23:22:43 +0000635- Patch #1446372: quit and exit can now be called from the interactive
636 interpreter to exit.
637
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +0000638- The function get_count() has been added to the gc module, and gc.collect()
639 grew an optional 'generation' argument.
640
Martin v. Löwisfbab90e2006-03-05 13:36:04 +0000641- A library msilib to generate Windows Installer files, and a distutils
642 command bdist_msi have been added.
643
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +0000644- PEP 343: new module contextlib.py defines decorator @contextmanager
645 and helpful context managers nested() and closing().
646
Martin v. Löwis415ed932006-02-27 19:56:30 +0000647- The compiler package now supports future imports after the module docstring.
648
Georg Brandl8f7c54e2006-02-20 08:40:38 +0000649- Bug #1413790: zipfile now sanitizes absolute archive names that are
650 not allowed by the specs.
651
Georg Brandlc98eeed2006-02-19 14:57:47 +0000652- Patch #1215184: FileInput now can be given an opening hook which can
653 be used to control how files are opened.
654
Georg Brandlc029f872006-02-19 14:12:34 +0000655- Patch #1212287: fileinput.input() now has a mode parameter for
656 specifying the file mode input files should be opened with.
657
Georg Brandl67e9fb92006-02-19 13:56:17 +0000658- Patch #1215184: fileinput now has a fileno() function for getting the
659 current file number.
660
Georg Brandl602b9ba2006-02-19 13:26:36 +0000661- Patch #1349274: gettext.install() now optionally installs additional
662 translation functions other than _() in the builtin namespace.
663
Georg Brandle4662172006-02-19 09:51:27 +0000664- Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames.
665
Georg Brandl7b4e7c22006-02-18 21:10:56 +0000666- Patch #1373643: The chunk module can now read chunks larger than
667 two gigabytes.
668
Georg Brandl21dd1af2006-02-17 13:35:13 +0000669- Patch #1417555: SimpleHTTPServer now returns Last-Modified headers.
670
Georg Brandlbd3bc4d2006-02-17 09:52:53 +0000671- Bug #1430298: It is now possible to send a mail with an empty
672 return address using smtplib.
673
Georg Brandl0e1abe22006-02-17 09:48:14 +0000674- Bug #1432260: The names of lambda functions are now properly displayed
675 in pydoc.
Georg Brandl501dd0d2006-02-17 09:45:40 +0000676
Martin v. Löwis00756902006-02-05 17:09:41 +0000677- Patch #1412872: zipfile now sets the creator system to 3 (Unix)
678 unless the system is Win32.
679
Tim Petersda1329b2006-02-27 16:50:01 +0000680- Patch #1349118: urllib now supports user:pass@ style proxy
Martin v. Löwis3e865952006-01-24 15:51:21 +0000681 specifications, raises IOErrors when proxies for unsupported protocols
682 are defined, and uses the https proxy on https redirections.
683
Georg Brandl531ceba2006-01-21 07:20:56 +0000684- Bug #902075: urllib2 now supports 'host:port' style proxy specifications.
685
686- Bug #1407902: Add support for sftp:// URIs to urlparse.
Georg Brandl89f35ac2006-01-20 17:24:23 +0000687
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000688- Bug #1371247: Update Windows locale identifiers in locale.py.
689
Neal Norwitzf60cd472006-01-14 07:05:13 +0000690- Bug #1394565: SimpleHTTPServer now doesn't choke on query parameters
Georg Brandl45ab2332006-01-13 17:05:56 +0000691 any more.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000692
Georg Brandl4edd9892006-01-13 16:59:46 +0000693- Bug #1403410: The warnings module now doesn't get confused
694 when it can't find out the module name it generates a warning for.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000695
Martin v. Löwis412ed3b2006-01-08 10:45:39 +0000696- Patch #1177307: Added a new codec utf_8_sig for UTF-8 with a BOM signature.
697
Neal Norwitzab86f8e2005-12-23 21:44:36 +0000698- Patch #1157027: cookielib mishandles RFC 2109 cookies in Netscape mode
699
Neal Norwitz338e7862005-12-23 21:27:46 +0000700- Patch #1117398: cookielib.LWPCookieJar and .MozillaCookieJar now raise
701 LoadError as documented, instead of IOError. For compatibility,
702 LoadError subclasses IOError.
703
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +0000704- Added the hashlib module. It provides secure hash functions for MD5 and
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000705 SHA1, 224, 256, 384, and 512. Note that recent developments make the
706 historic MD5 and SHA1 unsuitable for cryptographic-strength applications.
707 In <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058850.html>
708 Ronald L. Rivest offered this advice for Python:
709
710 "The consensus of researchers in this area (at least as
711 expressed at the NIST Hash Function Workshop 10/31/05),
712 is that SHA-256 is a good choice for the time being, but
713 that research should continue, and other alternatives may
714 arise from this research. The larger SHA's also seem OK."
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +0000715
Fredrik Lundh7e0aef02005-12-12 18:54:55 +0000716- Added a subset of Fredrik Lundh's ElementTree package. Available
717 modules are xml.etree.ElementTree, xml.etree.ElementPath, and
718 xml.etree.ElementInclude, from ElementTree 1.2.6.
719
Martin v. Löwis307021f2005-11-27 16:59:04 +0000720- Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles.
721
Georg Brandl1f663572005-11-26 16:50:44 +0000722- Bug #1365984: urllib now opens "data:" URLs again.
723
Brett Cannonad07ff22005-11-23 02:15:50 +0000724- Patch #1314396: prevent deadlock for threading.Thread.join() when an exception
725 is raised within the method itself on a previous call (e.g., passing in an
726 illegal argument)
727
Brett Cannon5d0bf942005-11-02 23:04:26 +0000728- Bug #1340337: change time.strptime() to always return ValueError when there
729 is an error in the format string.
730
Georg Brandle8f24432005-10-03 14:16:44 +0000731- Patch #754022: Greatly enhanced webbrowser.py (by Oleg Broytmann).
732
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000733- Bug #729103: pydoc.py: Fix docother() method to accept additional
Georg Brandl8b813db2005-10-01 16:32:31 +0000734 "parent" argument.
735
Georg Brandlaa935172005-09-29 20:49:16 +0000736- Patch #1300515: xdrlib.py: Fix pack_fstring() to really use null bytes
737 for padding.
738
Georg Brandl80ba8e82005-09-29 20:16:07 +0000739- Bug #1296004: httplib.py: Limit maximal amount of data read from the
740 socket to avoid a MemoryError on Windows.
741
Matthias Klosef3f231f2005-09-20 07:02:49 +0000742- Patch #1166948: locale.py: Prefer LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG over LANGUAGE
743 to get the correct encoding.
744
745- Patch #1166938: locale.py: Parse LANGUAGE as a colon separated list of
746 languages.
747
Martin v. Löwis4ed67382005-09-18 08:34:39 +0000748- Patch #1268314: Cache lines in StreamReader.readlines for performance.
749
Brett Cannona783d062005-09-15 02:34:56 +0000750- Bug #1290505: Fix clearing the regex cache for time.strptime().
751
Martin v. Löwis5dbdc592005-08-27 10:07:56 +0000752- Bug #1167128: Fix size of a symlink in a tarfile to be 0.
753
Georg Brandl5a650a22005-08-26 08:51:34 +0000754- Patch #810023: Fix off-by-one bug in urllib.urlretrieve reporthook
755 functionality.
756
Martin v. Löwis8b595142005-08-25 11:03:38 +0000757- Bug #1163178: Make IDNA return an empty string when the input is empty.
758
Georg Brandl532efab2005-08-24 22:34:21 +0000759- Patch #848017: Make Cookie more RFC-compliant. Use CRLF as default output
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000760 separator and do not output trailing semicolon.
Georg Brandl532efab2005-08-24 22:34:21 +0000761
Georg Brandlb9256022005-08-24 18:46:39 +0000762- Patch #1062060: urllib.urlretrieve() now raises a new exception, named
763 ContentTooShortException, when the actually downloaded size does not
764 match the Content-Length header.
765
Martin v. Löwis0a5d4a22005-08-24 14:55:22 +0000766- Bug #1121494: distutils.dir_utils.mkpath now accepts Unicode strings.
767
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +0000768- Bug #1178484: Return complete lines from codec stream readers
769 even if there is an exception in later lines, resulting in
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000770 correct line numbers for decoding errors in source code.
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +0000771
Georg Brandl6d2b3462005-08-24 07:36:17 +0000772- Bug #1192315: Disallow negative arguments to clear() in pdb.
773
Martin v. Löwisb813c532005-08-07 20:51:04 +0000774- Patch #827386: Support absolute source paths in msvccompiler.py.
775
Georg Brandl649f8e72005-08-03 07:30:12 +0000776- Patch #1105730: Apply the new implementation of commonprefix in posixpath
777 to ntpath, macpath, os2emxpath and riscospath.
778
Guido van Rossum755149f2005-07-27 00:00:44 +0000779- Fix a problem in Tkinter introduced by SF patch #869468: delete bogus
780 __hasattr__ and __delattr__ methods on class Tk that were breaking
781 Tkdnd.
782
Georg Brandl5dbda752005-07-17 20:27:41 +0000783- Bug #1015140: disambiguated the term "article id" in nntplib docs and
784 docstrings to either "article number" or "message id".
785
Georg Brandla4a8b822005-07-15 09:13:21 +0000786- Bug #1238170: threading.Thread.__init__ no longer has "kwargs={}" as a
787 parameter, but uses the usual "kwargs=None".
788
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000789- textwrap now processes text chunks at O(n) speed instead of O(n**2).
Raymond Hettinger8bfa8932005-07-15 06:53:35 +0000790 Patch #1209527 (Contributed by Connelly).
791
Georg Brandl5c5fe2f2005-07-14 06:40:47 +0000792- urllib2 has now an attribute 'httpresponses' mapping from HTTP status code
793 to W3C name (404 -> 'Not Found'). RFE #1216944.
794
Georg Brandl9e43acf2005-07-04 17:16:07 +0000795- Bug #1177468: Don't cache the /dev/urandom file descriptor for os.urandom,
796 as this can cause problems with apps closing all file descriptors.
797
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000798- Bug #839151: Fix an attempt to access sys.argv in the warnings module;
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000799 it can be missing in embedded interpreters
Georg Brandl5284b532005-06-26 22:54:58 +0000800
Georg Brandl2f210b62005-06-26 22:09:06 +0000801- Bug #1155638: Fix a bug which affected HTTP 0.9 responses in httplib.
802
Georg Brandlfbff1bc2005-06-26 21:36:25 +0000803- Bug #1100201: Cross-site scripting was possible on BaseHTTPServer via
804 error messages.
805
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +0000806- Bug #1108948: Cookie.py produced invalid JavaScript code.
807
Raymond Hettingerda99d1c2005-06-21 07:43:58 +0000808- The tokenize module now detects and reports indentation errors.
809 Bug #1224621.
810
Raymond Hettinger68c04532005-06-10 11:05:19 +0000811- The tokenize module has a new untokenize() function to support a full
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000812 roundtrip from lexed tokens back to Python source code. In addition,
Raymond Hettinger68c04532005-06-10 11:05:19 +0000813 the generate_tokens() function now accepts a callable argument that
814 terminates by raising StopIteration.
815
Georg Brandl9166e1a2005-06-04 09:20:03 +0000816- Bug #1196315: fix weakref.WeakValueDictionary constructor.
817
Georg Brandl268e61c2005-06-03 14:28:50 +0000818- Bug #1213894: os.path.realpath didn't resolve symlinks that were the first
819 component of the path.
820
Skip Montanaro174dd222005-05-14 20:54:16 +0000821- Patch #1120353: The xmlrpclib module provides better, more transparent,
822 support for datetime.{datetime,date,time} objects. With use_datetime set
823 to True, applications shouldn't have to fiddle with the DateTime wrapper
824 class at all.
825
Martin v. Löwis55f1bb82005-03-21 20:56:35 +0000826- distutils.commands.upload was added to support uploading distribution
827 files to PyPI.
828
Walter Dörwalda6e8a4a2005-03-31 13:57:38 +0000829- distutils.commands.register now encodes the data as UTF-8 before posting
830 them to PyPI.
831
Raymond Hettinger267b8682005-03-27 10:47:39 +0000832- decimal operator and comparison methods now return NotImplemented
833 instead of raising a TypeError when interacting with other types. This
834 allows other classes to implement __radd__ style methods and have them
835 work as expected.
836
Raymond Hettingerbea3f6f2005-03-15 04:59:17 +0000837- Bug #1163325: Decimal infinities failed to hash. Attempting to
838 hash a NaN raised an InvalidOperation instead of a TypeError.
839
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000840- Patch #918101: Add tarfile open mode r|* for auto-detection of the
Martin v. Löwis78be7df2005-03-05 12:47:42 +0000841 stream compression; add, for symmetry reasons, r:* as a synonym of r.
842
Martin v. Löwis00a73e72005-03-04 19:40:34 +0000843- Patch #1043890: Add extractall method to tarfile.
844
Martin v. Löwisc72dd382005-03-04 13:50:17 +0000845- Patch #1075887: Don't require MSVC in distutils if there is nothing
846 to build.
847
Martin v. Löwis637431b2005-03-03 23:12:42 +0000848- Patch #1103407: Properly deal with tarfile iterators when untarring
849 symbolic links on Windows.
850
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000851- Patch #645894: Use getrusage for computing the time consumption in
Martin v. Löwisa4dac402005-03-03 11:39:45 +0000852 profile.py if available.
853
Martin v. Löwisdf37c8c2005-03-03 11:08:03 +0000854- Patch #1046831: Use get_python_version where appropriate in sysconfig.py.
855
Martin v. Löwisc5574e82005-03-03 10:57:37 +0000856- Patch #1117454: Remove code to special-case cookies without values
857 in LWPCookieJar.
858
Martin v. Löwis4ea3ead2005-03-03 10:48:12 +0000859- Patch #1117339: Add cookielib special name tests.
860
Martin v. Löwise869eb12005-03-03 09:46:07 +0000861- Patch #1112812: Make bsddb/__init__.py more friendly for modulefinder.
862
Martin v. Löwisf2a8d632005-03-03 08:35:22 +0000863- Patch #1110248: SYNC_FLUSH the zlib buffer for GZipFile.flush.
864
Martin v. Löwisdf241532005-03-03 08:17:42 +0000865- Patch #1107973: Allow to iterate over the lines of a tarfile.ExFileObject.
866
Martin v. Löwis8ed338a2005-03-03 08:12:27 +0000867- Patch #1104111: Alter setup.py --help and --help-commands.
868
Martin v. Löwis4afe1542005-03-01 08:09:28 +0000869- Patch #1121234: Properly cleanup _exit and tkerror commands.
870
Martin v. Löwisc2a0ac22005-02-24 20:22:10 +0000871- Patch #1049151: xdrlib now unpacks booleans as True or False.
872
Raymond Hettingerbab41432005-02-05 01:31:19 +0000873- Fixed bug in a NameError bug in cookielib. Patch #1116583.
874
Guido van Rossumd0641422005-02-03 15:01:24 +0000875- Applied a security fix to SimpleXMLRPCserver (PSF-2005-001). This
876 disables recursive traversal through instance attributes, which can
877 be exploited in various ways.
878
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000879- Bug #1222790: in SimpleXMLRPCServer, set the reuse-address and close-on-exec
Andrew M. Kuchling3a976052005-12-04 15:07:41 +0000880 flags on the HTTP listening socket.
881
Andrew M. Kuchlinge63fde72005-12-04 15:36:57 +0000882- Bug #792570: SimpleXMLRPCServer had problems if the request grew too large.
883 Fixed by reading the HTTP body in chunks instead of one big socket.read().
884
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000885- Patches #893642, #1039083: add allow_none, encoding arguments to constructors of
Andrew M. Kuchling10a16de2005-12-04 16:34:40 +0000886 SimpleXMLRPCServer and CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler.
887
Martin v. Löwis1d11de62005-01-29 13:29:23 +0000888- Bug #1110478: Revert os.environ.update to do putenv again.
889
Thomas Hellerd6c6e222005-01-20 19:20:16 +0000890- Bug #1103844: fix distutils.install.dump_dirs() with negated options.
891
Martin v. Löwis22b457e2005-01-16 08:40:58 +0000892- os.{SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END} have been added for convenience.
893
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000894- Enhancements to the csv module:
895
896 + Dialects are now validated by the underlying C code, better
Georg Brandl7eb4b7d2005-07-22 21:49:32 +0000897 reflecting its capabilities, and improving its compliance with
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000898 PEP 305.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000899 + Dialect parameter parsing has been re-implemented to improve error
900 reporting.
901 + quotechar=None and quoting=QUOTE_NONE now work the way PEP 305
902 dictates.
903 + the parser now removes the escapechar prefix from escaped characters.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +0000904 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the writer now tests for numeric
Andrew McNamaraf69d94f2005-01-13 11:30:54 +0000905 types, rather than any object than can be represented as a numeric.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +0000906 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the reader now casts unquoted fields
907 to floats.
Andrew McNamaraf69d94f2005-01-13 11:30:54 +0000908 + reader now allows \r characters to be quoted (previously it only allowed
909 \n to be quoted).
Andrew McNamarac89f2842005-01-12 07:44:42 +0000910 + writer doublequote handling improved.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000911 + Dialect classes passed to the module are no longer instantiated by
912 the module before being parsed (the former validation scheme required
913 this, but the mechanism was unreliable).
914 + The dialect registry now contains instances of the internal
915 C-coded dialect type, rather than references to python objects.
916 + the internal c-coded dialect type is now immutable.
917 + register_dialect now accepts the same keyword dialect specifications
918 as the reader and writer, allowing the user to register dialects
919 without first creating a dialect class.
920 + a configurable limit to the size of parsed fields has been added -
921 previously, an unmatched quote character could result in the entire
922 file being read into the field buffer before an error was reported.
Andrew McNamara31d88962005-01-12 03:45:10 +0000923 + A new module method csv.field_size_limit() has been added that sets
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000924 the parser field size limit (returning the former limit). The initial
925 limit is 128kB.
Andrew McNamara7f2053e2005-01-12 11:17:16 +0000926 + A line_num attribute has been added to the reader object, which tracks
927 the number of lines read from the source iterator. This is not
928 the same as the number of records returned, as records can span
929 multiple lines.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000930 + reader and writer objects were not being registered with the cyclic-GC.
931 This has been fixed.
932
Brett Cannone6539c42005-01-08 02:43:53 +0000933- _DummyThread objects in the threading module now delete self.__block that is
934 inherited from _Thread since it uses up a lock allocated by 'thread'. The
935 lock primitives tend to be limited in number and thus should not be wasted on
936 a _DummyThread object. Fixes bug #1089632.
937
Raymond Hettinger97db05d2005-01-07 08:15:41 +0000938- The imghdr module now detects Exif files.
939
Raymond Hettinger6065d322004-12-20 23:51:53 +0000940- StringIO.truncate() now correctly adjusts the size attribute.
941 (Bug #951915).
942
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +0000943- locale.py now uses an updated locale alias table (built using
944 Tools/i18n/makelocalealias.py, a tool to parse the X11 locale
945 alias file); the encoding lookup was enhanced to use Python's
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000946 encoding alias table.
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +0000947
Raymond Hettinger3557f422004-12-07 12:02:02 +0000948- moved deprecated modules to Lib/lib-old: whrandom, tzparse, statcache.
949
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +0000950- the pickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
951 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
952
Brett Cannon84667c02004-12-07 03:25:18 +0000953- optparse now optionally imports gettext. This allows its use in setup.py.
954
Raymond Hettinger3489cad2004-12-05 05:20:42 +0000955- the pickle module no longer uses the deprecated bin parameter.
956
Raymond Hettinger1bc82f82004-12-05 03:58:17 +0000957- the shelve module no longer uses the deprecated binary parameter.
958
Raymond Hettinger6c92d762004-12-05 03:28:00 +0000959- the pstats module no longer uses the deprecated ignore() method.
960
Raymond Hettingerf3fa9462004-12-05 01:58:09 +0000961- the filecmp module no longer uses the deprecated use_statcache argument.
962
Raymond Hettinger664347b2004-12-04 21:21:53 +0000963- unittest.TestCase.run() and unittest.TestSuite.run() can now be successfully
964 extended or overridden by subclasses. Formerly, the subclassed method would
965 be ignored by the rest of the module. (Bug #1078905).
966
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000967- heapq.nsmallest() and heapq.nlargest() now support key= arguments with
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +0000968 the same meaning as in list.sort().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000969
Walter Dörwald36733692004-12-22 12:50:50 +0000970- Bug #1076985: ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` now calls ``read()`` only
971 once when a size argument is given. This prevents a buffer overflow in the
972 tokenizer with very long source lines.
973
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +0000974- Bug #1083110: ``zlib.decompress.flush()`` would segfault if called
975 immediately after creating the object, without any intervening
976 ``.decompress()`` calls.
Andrew M. Kuchling3b585b32004-12-28 20:10:48 +0000977
Skip Montanaro05885812005-01-16 20:48:27 +0000978- The reconvert.quote function can now emit triple-quoted strings. The
979 reconvert module now has some simple documentation.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000980
Walter Dörwaldaf3b39a2005-02-18 13:22:43 +0000981- ``UserString.MutableString`` now supports negative indices in
982 ``__setitem__`` and ``__delitem__``
983
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +0000984- Bug #1149508: ``textwrap`` now handles hyphenated numbers (eg. "2004-03-05")
985 correctly.
986
Walter Dörwaldbc8e6422005-04-21 21:32:03 +0000987- Partial fixes for SF bugs #1163244 and #1175396: If a chunk read by
988 ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` has a trailing "\r", read one more
989 character even if the user has passed a size parameter to get a proper
990 line ending. Remove the special handling of a "\r\n" that has been split
991 between two lines.
992
Walter Dörwalda47d1c02005-08-30 10:23:14 +0000993- Bug #1251300: On UCS-4 builds the "unicode-internal" codec will now complain
994 about illegal code points. The codec now supports PEP 293 style error
995 handlers.
996
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +0000997- Bug #1235646: ``codecs.StreamRecoder.next()`` now reencodes the data it reads
Walter Dörwaldc5238b82005-09-01 11:56:53 +0000998 from the input stream, so that the output is a byte string in the correct
999 encoding instead of a unicode string.
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +00001000
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +00001001- Bug #1202493: Fixing SRE parser to handle '{}' as perl does, rather than
1002 considering it exactly like a '*'.
1003
Walter Dörwald007f8df2005-10-09 19:42:27 +00001004- Bug #1245379: Add "unicode-1-1-utf-7" as an alias for "utf-7" to
1005 ``encodings.aliases``.
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +00001006
Walter Dörwald09f0dd52005-11-21 19:10:07 +00001007- ` uu.encode()`` and ``uu.decode()`` now support unicode filenames.
1008
Gustavo Niemeyer548148812006-01-31 18:34:13 +00001009- Patch #1413711: Certain patterns of differences were making difflib
1010 touch the recursion limit.
1011
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +00001012- Bug #947906: An object oriented interface has been added to the calendar
1013 module. It's possible to generate HTML calendar now and the module can be
Walter Dörwald48d5e502006-04-01 07:57:00 +00001014 called as a script (e.g. via ``python -mcalendar``). Localized month and
1015 weekday names can be ouput (even if an exotic encoding is used) using
1016 special classes that use unicode.
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +00001017
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001018Build
1019-----
1020
Neal Norwitz602d3392006-03-31 08:21:40 +00001021- Fix test_float, test_long, and test_struct failures on Tru64 with gcc
1022 by using -mieee gcc option.
1023
Martin v. Löwis86d66262006-02-17 08:40:11 +00001024- Patch #1432345: Make python compile on DragonFly.
1025
Martin v. Löwis856bf9a2006-02-14 20:42:55 +00001026- Build support for Win64-AMD64 was added.
1027
Martin v. Löwisa55e55e2006-02-11 15:55:14 +00001028- Patch #1428494: Prefer linking against ncursesw over ncurses library.
1029
Martin v. Löwisfd9a72a2006-01-08 10:07:33 +00001030- Patch #881820: look for openpty and forkpty also in libbsd.
1031
Martin v. Löwis64c33dd2006-01-03 07:42:14 +00001032- The sources of zlib are now part of the Python distribution (zlib 1.2.3).
1033 The zlib module is now builtin on Windows.
1034
Martin v. Löwisd5845ec2005-12-30 12:31:38 +00001035- Use -xcode=pic32 for CCSHARED on Solaris with SunPro.
1036
Martin v. Löwis147fbe52005-08-07 21:09:30 +00001037- Bug #1189330: configure did not correctly determine the necessary
1038 value of LINKCC if python was built with GCC 4.0.
1039
Trent Mick8321b422005-07-26 02:29:21 +00001040- Upgrade Windows build to zlib 1.2.3 which eliminates a potential security
1041 vulnerability in zlib 1.2.1 and 1.2.2.
1042
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +00001043- EXTRA_CFLAGS has been introduced as an environment variable to hold compiler
1044 flags that change binary compatibility. Changes were also made to
1045 distutils.sysconfig to also use the environment variable when used during
Martin v. Löwisd7c795e2005-04-25 07:14:03 +00001046 compilation of the interpreter and of C extensions through distutils.
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +00001047
Bob Ippolitoed233462005-03-29 13:47:59 +00001048- SF patch 1171735: Darwin 8's headers are anal about POSIX compliance,
1049 and linking has changed (prebinding is now deprecated, and libcc_dynamic
1050 no longer exists). This configure patch makes things right.
1051
Martin v. Löwise2713be2005-03-08 15:03:08 +00001052- Bug #1158607: Build with --disable-unicode again.
1053
Brett Cannon46d96232005-02-16 00:07:19 +00001054- spwdmodule.c is built only if either HAVE_GETSPNAM or HAVE_HAVE_GETSPENT is
1055 defined. Discovered as a result of not being able to build on OS X.
1056
Brett Cannon516592f2004-12-07 00:42:59 +00001057- setup.py now uses the directories specified in LDFLAGS using the -L option
1058 and in CPPFLAGS using the -I option for adding library and include
1059 directories, respectively, for compiling extension modules against. This has
1060 led to the core being compiled using the values in CPPFLAGS. It also removes
1061 the need for the special-casing of both DarwinPorts and Fink for darwin since
1062 the proper directories can be specified in LDFLAGS (``-L/sw/lib`` for Fink,
1063 ``-L/opt/local/lib`` for DarwinPorts) and CPPFLAGS (``-I/sw/include`` for
1064 Fink, ``-I/opt/local/include`` for DarwinPorts).
1065
Brett Cannon43802422005-02-10 20:48:03 +00001066- Test in configure.in that checks for tzset no longer dependent on tm->tm_zone
1067 to exist in the struct (not required by either ISO C nor the UNIX 2 spec).
1068 Tests for sanity in tzname when HAVE_TZNAME defined were also defined.
1069 Closes bug #1096244. Thanks Gregory Bond.
1070
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001071C API
1072-----
1073
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +00001074- ``PyMem_{Del, DEL}`` and ``PyMem_{Free, FREE}`` no longer map to
1075 ``PyObject_{Free, FREE}``. They map to the system ``free()`` now. If memory
1076 is obtained via the ``PyObject_`` family, it must be released via the
1077 ``PyObject_`` family, and likewise for the ``PyMem_`` family. This has
1078 always been officially true, but when Python's small-object allocator was
1079 introduced, an attempt was made to cater to a few extension modules
1080 discovered at the time that obtained memory via ``PyObject_New`` but
1081 released it via ``PyMem_DEL``. It's years later, and if such code still
1082 exists it will fail now (probably with segfaults, but calling wrong
1083 low-level memory management functions can yield many symptoms).
1084
Raymond Hettingerbeb31012005-08-16 03:47:52 +00001085- Added a C API for set and frozenset objects.
1086
Raymond Hettinger66517482004-12-03 11:45:13 +00001087- Removed PyRange_New().
1088
Walter Dörwaldd1c1e102005-10-06 20:29:57 +00001089- Patch #1313939: PyUnicode_DecodeCharmap() accepts a unicode string as the
1090 mapping argument now. This string is used as a mapping table. Byte values
1091 greater than the length of the string and 0xFFFE are treated as undefined
1092 mappings.
1093
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001094
1095Tests
1096-----
1097
Martin v. Löwis4d394df2005-01-23 09:19:22 +00001098- In test_os, st_?time is now truncated before comparing it with ST_?TIME.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001099
Hye-Shik Changaaa2f1d2005-12-10 17:44:27 +00001100- Patch #1276356: New resource "urlfetch" is implemented. This enables
1101 even impatient people to run tests that require remote files.
1102
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00001103
1104Documentation
1105-------------
1106
Georg Brandl8cb30772006-01-20 09:34:29 +00001107- Bug #1402224: Add warning to dl docs about crashes.
1108
Georg Brandla3a93ae2006-01-20 09:14:36 +00001109- Bug #1396471: Document that Windows' ftell() can return invalid
1110 values for text files with UNIX-style line endings.
1111
Georg Brandl32252422005-09-14 20:42:00 +00001112- Bug #1274828: Document os.path.splitunc().
1113
Georg Brandl79c122f2005-08-24 07:31:33 +00001114- Bug #1190204: Clarify which directories are searched by site.py.
1115
Georg Brandl6f2bbd32005-08-24 07:26:55 +00001116- Bug #1193849: Clarify os.path.expanduser() documentation.
1117
Georg Brandlf13c4ba2005-08-02 10:28:08 +00001118- Bug #1243192: re.UNICODE and re.LOCALE affect \d, \D, \s and \S.
1119
Georg Brandl150db732005-07-18 08:53:17 +00001120- Bug #755617: Document the effects of os.chown() on Windows.
1121
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001122- Patch #1180012: The documentation for modulefinder is now in the library reference.
1123
1124- Patch #1213031: Document that os.chown() accepts argument values of -1.
1125
1126- Bug #1190563: Document os.waitpid() return value with WNOHANG flag.
1127
1128- Bug #1175022: Correct the example code for property().
1129
Georg Brandl40c71652005-06-25 21:08:46 +00001130- Document the IterableUserDict class in the UserDict module.
1131 Closes bug #1166582.
1132
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00001133- Remove all latent references for "Macintosh" that referred to semantics for
1134 Mac OS 9 and change to reflect the state for OS X.
1135 Closes patch #1095802. Thanks Jack Jansen.
1136
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001137Mac
1138---
1139
1140
Hye-Shik Chang4e422812005-07-17 02:36:59 +00001141New platforms
1142-------------
1143
1144- FreeBSD 7 support is added.
1145
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001146
1147Tools/Demos
1148-----------
1149
Brett Cannonacde7342006-03-01 04:28:00 +00001150- Created Misc/Vim/vim_syntax.py to auto-generate a python.vim file in that
1151 directory for syntax highlighting in Vim. Vim directory was added and placed
1152 vimrc to it (was previous up a level).
1153
Georg Brandl56897312005-08-24 18:32:30 +00001154- Added two new files to Tools/scripts: pysource.py, which recursively
1155 finds Python source files, and findnocoding.py, which finds Python
1156 source files that need an encoding declaration.
1157 Patch #784089, credits to Oleg Broytmann.
1158
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001159- Bug #1072853: pindent.py used an uninitialized variable.
1160
Martin v. Löwisab9ec162005-04-09 10:53:34 +00001161- Patch #1177597: Correct Complex.__init__.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001162
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +00001163- Fixed a display glitch in Pynche, which could cause the right arrow to
1164 wiggle over by a pixel.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001165
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00001166----
1167
1168**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**