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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002Python News
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Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00007What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
8================================
9
10*Release date: XX-June-2008*
11
12Core and Builtins
13-----------------
14
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000015- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
16 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
17 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
18 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +000019
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +000020- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
21
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000022- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
23 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +000024
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000025- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
26 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +000027
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000028- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
29 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
30 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +000031
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +000032Extension Modules
33-----------------
34
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000035- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
36 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +000037
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +000038- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +000039
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +000040- bsddb module updated to version 4.6.4.
41
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000042- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
43 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
44 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +000045
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000046- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +000047
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +000048Library
49-------
50
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +000051- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
52
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000053- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +000054 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
55 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
56 'm' or 'c'.
57
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000058- The Tkinter module has been made a package and renamed 'tkinter'.
59 All Tkinter-related modules (like Tix, ScrolledText, turtle etc.)
60 are now submodules of that package and have been renamed to conform
61 to PEP 8 standards.
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +000062
Alexandre Vassalotti95d97c72008-05-16 06:37:57 +000063- The repr module has been renamed 'reprlib'. The old name is now
64 deprecated.
65
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +000066- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
67
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000068- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
69 removal in Python 3.0.
70
71- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
72 3.0.
73
74- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
75 3.0.
76
77- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
78 3.0.
79
80- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +000081 Python 3.0.
82
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +000083- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
84 Python 3.0.
85
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000086- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
87 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +000088
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000089- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
90 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +000091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000092- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
93 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +000094
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000095- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
96 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +000097
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000098- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +000099 Python 3.0.
100
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000101- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
102 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +0000103
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000104- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
105 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +0000106
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000107- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
108 3.0.
109
110- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
111 removal in Python 3.0.
112
113- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
114 3.0.
115
116- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
117 3.0.
118
119- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
120 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +0000121
Alexandre Vassalottie3a23c02008-05-14 22:07:07 +0000122- The ConfigParser module has been renamed 'configparser'. The old
123 name is now deprecated.
124
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000125- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
126 removal in Python 3.0.
127
128- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +0000129 Python 3.0.
130
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000131- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
132 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +0000133
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +0000134- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
135 Python 3.0.
136
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +0000137- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
138 Python 3.0.
139
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000140- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +0000141
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +0000142- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
143
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +0000144- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
145
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +0000146- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
147
Alexandre Vassalottifb9ce652008-05-12 01:37:10 +0000148- The SocketServer module has been renamed 'socketserver'. The old
149 name is now deprecated.
150
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +0000151- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
152
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000153- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
154 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
155 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +0000156
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000157- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
158 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +0000159
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +0000160- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
161
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000162- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
163 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +0000164
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +0000165- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
166
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +0000167- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
168
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +0000169- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
170
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +0000171- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
172
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +0000173- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000175- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
176 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +0000177
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +0000178- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
179
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +0000180- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
181
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +0000182- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
183 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
184 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
185 OverflowError.
186
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +0000187- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
188
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000189- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
190 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +0000191
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +0000192- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
193
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +0000194- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
195
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +0000196- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
197
198- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +0000199
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +0000200- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
201
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +0000202- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
203
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +0000204- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
205
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +0000206- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +0000207
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000208- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
209 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +0000210
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +0000211Build
212-----
213
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +0000214- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
215
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +0000216
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000217What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +0000218=================================
219
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +0000220*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +0000221
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +0000222Core and builtins
223-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +0000224
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +0000225- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
226
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000227- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
228 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +0000229
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000230- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
231 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +0000232
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000233- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +0000234
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +0000235Extension Modules
236-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000238- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
239 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +0000240
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +0000241- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000243- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
244 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +0000245
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000246- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
247 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +0000248
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000249- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
250 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +0000251
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000252- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
253 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
254 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
255 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
256 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
257 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
258 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
259 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +0000260
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000261Library
262-------
263
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +0000264- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
265
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000266- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
267 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +0000268
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +0000269- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
270
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000271- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
272 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +0000273
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +0000274- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
275 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
276 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
277
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +0000278- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
279 data types
280
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +0000281- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +0000282 reference to themselves.
283
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +0000284- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
285 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
286 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +0000287
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +0000288- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
289 1900-01-01.
290
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +0000291- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
292 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
293
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +0000294- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
295 now implemented in C for better performance.
296
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000297- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
298 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
299 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +0000300
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000301- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +0000302 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
303 build documentation for more information.
304
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +0000305- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
306 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
307 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
308 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
309
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +0000310- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
311 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
312 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
313
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000314- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
315 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
316 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
317 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +0000318
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000319Tests
320-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +0000321
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000322- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
323 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
324 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
325 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
326 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
327 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
328 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
329 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
330 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
331 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
332 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
333 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
334 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
335 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
336 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
337 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
338 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
339 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
340 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
341 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
342
343 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
344 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
345 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
346 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
347 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
348 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
349 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
350 access to the underlying socket used.
351
352 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
353 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
354 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +0000355
356 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000357 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +0000358 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
359 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
360
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000361 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
362 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000363
364Build
365-----
366
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +0000367- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
368
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +0000369- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
370 gcc is used as compiler.
371
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +0000372- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000373 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +0000374
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000375C API
376-----
377
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000378- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
379 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
380 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
381 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +0000382
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +0000383- Added a new convenience function, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k
384 warnings.
385
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000386
387What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
388=================================
389
390*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
391
392Core and builtins
393-----------------
394
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000395- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
396 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
397 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +0000398
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +0000399- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
400 cannot be executed.
401
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +0000402- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
403 reference on the outer class name.
404
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +0000405- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000406 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +0000407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000408- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
409 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +0000410
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +0000411- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +0000412
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +0000413- Added backport of bytearray type.
414
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +0000415- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
416
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +0000417- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000418 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
419 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
420 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
421 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
422 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +0000423
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +0000424- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
425
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000426- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
427 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +0000428
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +0000429- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +0000430
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +0000431- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
432
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000433- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
434 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +0000435
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000436- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
437 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +0000438
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000439- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +0000440 exception instances.
441
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +0000442- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000443 doesn't derive from BaseException.
444
445- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
446 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +0000447
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +0000448- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
449 memory usage in some circumstances.
450
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000451- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
452 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
453 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +0000454
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +0000455- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000457- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +0000458 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
459 longer passed.
460
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +0000461- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
462
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000463- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
464 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
465 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +0000466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000467- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
468 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +0000469
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +0000470- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
471
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +0000472Extension Modules
473-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +0000474
475- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
476
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +0000477Library
478-------
479
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000480- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
481 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000482
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000483- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
484 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
485 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000486
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000487- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
488 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000489
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000490- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
491 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
492 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +0000493
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000494- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
495 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +0000496
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +0000497- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
498
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +0000499- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
500 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
501 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
502
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +0000503- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
504
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +0000505- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
506 advertised in the docs.
507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000508- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +0000509
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000510- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +0000511
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000512- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
513 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +0000514
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +0000515- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
516 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
517
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000518- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
519 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +0000520 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
521 information as well.
522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000523- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
524 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +0000525
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000526- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
527 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +0000528
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000529- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
530 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
531 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +0000532
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +0000533- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
534 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
535 strftime.
536
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +0000537- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000538 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
539 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +0000540
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +0000541- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
542 correctly under win32
543
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000544- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +0000545
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +0000546- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000547 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
548 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
549 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +0000550
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +0000551- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
552 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
553
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000554- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
555 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +0000556
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000557- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
558 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
559 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +0000560
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000561- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +0000562 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
563
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +0000564- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
565 from 't' to '?'.
566
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +0000567- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
568 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000569 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
570 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
571 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +0000572
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000573- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
574 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +0000575
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +0000576Tests
577-----
578
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000579- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
580 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +0000581
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +0000582- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
583
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +0000584- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
585
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +0000586- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
587
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +0000588- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
589
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000590- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
591 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +0000592
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +0000593- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
594
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +0000595- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
596
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000597- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
598 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +0000599
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +0000600- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
601
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +0000602- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
603
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +0000604- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
605 permission to create files in the root directory.
606
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +0000607Build
608-----
609
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +0000610- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
611
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000612- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
613 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +0000614
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +0000615- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +0000616
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +0000617C API
618-----
619
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000620- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000621 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
622
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +0000623
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +0000624What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
625=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +0000626
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +0000627*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +0000628
629Core and builtins
630-----------------
631
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +0000632- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +0000633 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +0000634
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +0000635- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
636
637- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +0000638
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000639- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +0000640 issue 215555 for a discussion.
641
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +0000642- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
643 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
644 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
645 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
646 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
647 module is:
648 from future_builtins import hex, oct
649
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +0000650- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
651 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
652 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
653 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
654 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
655 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
656
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +0000657- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
658 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
659 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
660 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
661 PyObject_Format().
662
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000663- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
664 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
665 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +0000666
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000667- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000668 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
669 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +0000670
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000671- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
672 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +0000673
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000674- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
675 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
676 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +0000677
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000678- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
679 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
680 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +0000681
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +0000682- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
683 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
684
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000685- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
686 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +0000687
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000688- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
689 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +0000690 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
691
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000692- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
693 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
694 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +0000695
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000696- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
697 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +0000698
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000699- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
700 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +0000701
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000702- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
703 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +0000704
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000705- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
706 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +0000707
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000708- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
709 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
710 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +0000711
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000712- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
713 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
714 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
715 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +0000716
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +0000717- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
718 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
719 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
720
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +0000721- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +0000722 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
723 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
724
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000725- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +0000726 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
727 support.
728
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +0000729- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
730 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
731
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +0000732- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
733
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +0000734- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +0000735 added.
736
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +0000737- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
738 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
739
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000740- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
741 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +0000742
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000743- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
744 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
745 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +0000746
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000747- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
748 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +0000749
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +0000750- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
751 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +0000752
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +0000753- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
754
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000755- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
756 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
757 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +0000758
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000759- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
760 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
761 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +0000762
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000763- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +0000764
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000765- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
766 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +0000767
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +0000768- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000769 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
770 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +0000771
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000772- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
773 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
774 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
775 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +0000776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000777- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +0000778
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000779- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
780 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +0000781
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000782- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
783 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +0000784
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +0000785- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +0000786 SystemError.
787
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +0000788- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
789 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
790 __package__ attribute.
791
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000792- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
793 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
794 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +0000795
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +0000796- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
797
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000798- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +0000799 attribute of an empty cell object.
800
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000801- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
802 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +0000803
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000804- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
805 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
806 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
807 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +0000808
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000809- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
810 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
811 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +0000812
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +0000813- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
814
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +0000815- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
816
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +0000817- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000819- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
820 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
821 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +0000822
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000823- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
824 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
825 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
826 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
827 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
828 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +0000829
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000830- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
831 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
832 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
833 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
834 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +0000835
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000836- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
837 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
838 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +0000839
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000840- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
841 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +0000842
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +0000843- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000844 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
845 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
846 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
847 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
848 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +0000849
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000850- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
851 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +0000852
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +0000853- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
854 with %G.
855
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000856- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
857 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +0000858
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000859- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +0000860
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000861- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +0000862
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +0000863- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000864 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
865 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +0000866
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +0000867- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
868 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
869
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +0000870- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
871 calls.
872
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +0000873- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000874 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
875 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +0000876
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +0000877- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
878
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000879- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +0000880 inherited from a builtin base.
881
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +0000882- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +0000883 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
884
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +0000885- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
886
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +0000887- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
888 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
889 remaining characters.
890
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +0000891- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
892 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
893
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +0000894- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
895
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +0000896- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
897 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
898 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
899 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
900 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +0000901 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
902 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +0000903
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000904- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
905 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
906 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
907 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
908 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +0000909
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000910- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
911 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
912 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +0000913
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000914- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
915 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +0000916
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000917- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
918 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
919 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +0000920
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000921- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
922 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +0000923
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +0000924- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
925
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +0000926- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
927 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
928
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +0000929- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000930 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
931 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
932 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +0000933
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +0000934- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
935 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
936
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000937- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
938 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +0000939
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000940- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
941 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
942 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +0000943
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +0000944- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000945 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
946 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +0000947
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +0000948- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
949 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000950 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
951 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +0000952
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000953- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
954 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +0000955
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000956- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
957 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +0000958
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +0000959- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
960 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
961
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000962- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
963 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
964 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +0000965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000966- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
967 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +0000968
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000969- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
970 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +0000971
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000972- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
973 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
974 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +0000975
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +0000976- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
977 frame's thread state.
978
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000979- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
980 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +0000981
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000982- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
983 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +0000984
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000985- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
986 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +0000987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000988- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
989 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +0000990
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000991- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
992 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +0000993
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +0000994- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
995
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +0000996- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
997
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +0000998- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
999
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001000- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
1001 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00001002
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001003- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00001004
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00001005- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
1006 again, no longer the posix error code.
1007
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00001008- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
1009 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
1010
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001011- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
1012 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00001013
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00001014- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
1015 embedded in the string to convert.
1016
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00001017- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
1018 recognized and rejected.
1019
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00001020- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
1021
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00001022- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
1023 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
1024 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00001025
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00001026- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
1027 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
1028
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00001029- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001030 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
1031 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00001032
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001033- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
1034 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
1035 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00001036
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00001037- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
1038
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00001039- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
1040
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00001041- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
1042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001043- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
1044 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
1045 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00001046
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00001047- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
1048 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
1049 'exceptions'.
1050
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00001051- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
1052 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
1053
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00001054- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
1055 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
1056
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00001057- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
1058
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00001059- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
1060
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00001061- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
1062 head is the original string if sep was not found.
1063
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00001064- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001065 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
1066 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
1067 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00001068
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001069- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00001070
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001071- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
1072 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00001073
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00001074- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
1075 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00001076
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001077- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00001078 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
1079 it actually exited.
1080
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001081
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00001082Library
1083-------
1084
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001085- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00001086
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00001087- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
1088
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00001089- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
1090
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001091- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
1092 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00001093
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001094- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00001095
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001096- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
1097 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
1098 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00001099
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001100- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
1101 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00001102
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001103- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00001104 (ignore-case)
1105
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00001106- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
1107 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
1108 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
1109 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
1110
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001111- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
1112 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00001113
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001114- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
1115 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00001116
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00001117- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
1118 pickled.
1119
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00001120- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
1121 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
1122
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00001123- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
1124 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
1125 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
1126
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001127- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
1128 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00001129
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001130- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
1131 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
1132 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00001133
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001134- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
1135 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00001136
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001137- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
1138 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00001139
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001140- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
1141 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
1142 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
1143 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00001144
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001145- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
1146 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00001147 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
1148
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00001149- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
1150
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001151- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
1152 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00001153
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001154- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00001155
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001156- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
1157 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001158
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001159- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
1160 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001161
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001162- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
1163 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001164
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001165- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
1166 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001168- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
1169 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
1170 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00001171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001172- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
1173 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00001174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001175- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
1176 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00001177
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001178- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
1179 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00001180
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001181- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
1182 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00001183
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001184- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
1185 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00001186
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001187- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
1188 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00001189
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00001190- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
1191 with extended local headers.
1192
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001193- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
1194 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00001195
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001196- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00001197 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
1198 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
1199
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001200- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
1201 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00001202
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001203- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
1204 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00001205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001206- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
1207 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00001208
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001209- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
1210 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00001211
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001212- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
1213 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00001214
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00001215- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001216 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00001217 Textbox.gather().
1218
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00001219- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
1220 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00001221 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
1222 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00001223
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00001224- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
1225 that array types do not live longer than needed.
1226
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00001227- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
1228 and when creating a recursive instance.
1229
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001230- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
1231 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
1232 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00001233
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00001234- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
1235 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
1236 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
1237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001238- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
1239 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00001240
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001241- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00001242 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
1243
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001244- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00001245 good for long regular expression matches.
1246
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001247- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
1248 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00001249
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00001250- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
1251 the current context.
1252
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00001253- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
1254 zipfile module.
1255
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00001256- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
1257
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001258- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
1259 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00001260
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00001261- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
1262
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00001263- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
1264
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001265- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
1266 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00001267
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00001268- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
1269
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001270- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
1271 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00001272
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001273- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
1274 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00001275
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00001276- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
1277
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00001278- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
1279 Tcl objects.
1280
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00001281- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
1282
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001283- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
1284 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
1285 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
1286 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00001287
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001288- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
1289 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00001290
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001291- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
1292 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00001293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001294- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
1295 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00001296
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001297- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
1298 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00001299
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00001300- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
1301 method used universal newlines.
1302
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00001303- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
1304 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
1305
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00001306- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
1307 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
1308
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00001309- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
1310 files are updated.
1311
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001312- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
1313 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00001314
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00001315- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
1316 configured with --with-system-ffi.
1317
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00001318- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00001319 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00001320
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00001321- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
1322
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001323- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
1324 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
1325 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00001326
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001327- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
1328 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00001329
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00001330- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00001331
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00001332- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
1333
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001334- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
1335 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00001336
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00001337- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
1338 to be orderable to properly represent them.
1339
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00001340- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
1341
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00001342- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
1343
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001344- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
1345 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
1346 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00001347
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00001348- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
1349 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
1350
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001351- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
1352 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00001353
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001354- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
1355 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00001356
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00001357- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
1358
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00001359- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
1360
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00001361- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
1362 syllables.
1363
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001364- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
1365 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00001366
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00001367- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
1368
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00001369- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
1370 represent the result in a single character.
1371
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00001372- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
1373
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00001374- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
1375
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00001376- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
1377 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
1378 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
1379
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00001380- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
1381
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001382- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
1383 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00001384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001385- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
1386 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
1387 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00001388
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001389- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
1390 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
1391 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00001392
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00001393- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001394 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
1395 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00001396
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001397- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
1398 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00001399
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001400- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
1401 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00001402
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00001403- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
1404
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00001405- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
1406
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001407- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
1408 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
1409 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00001410
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00001411- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
1412
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00001413- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
1414
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00001415- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
1416 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
1417
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00001418- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
1419
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00001420- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
1421
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00001422- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
1423
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001424- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
1425 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00001426
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001427- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
1428 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00001429
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00001430- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
1431 the directories).
1432
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00001433- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
1434 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
1435 injecting HTML into the error page.
1436
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001437- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
1438 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00001439
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001440- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
1441 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00001442
1443- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
1444
1445- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
1446
1447- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
1448 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
1449 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
1450
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00001451- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
1452 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
1453 ".cpp" too.
1454
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00001455- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001456 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
1457 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
1458 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00001459
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001460- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
1461 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00001462
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001463- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
1464 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00001465
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00001466- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
1467 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
1468 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
1469 closes patch #723312.
1470
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00001471- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
1472 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00001473 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00001474
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00001475- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
1476
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00001477- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
1478 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
1479
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00001480- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
1481
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001482- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
1483 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00001484 directories.
1485
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00001486- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
1487 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
1488 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
1489 trying Mozilla variants.
1490
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00001491- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
1492
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00001493- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
1494 initialization failed.
1495
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00001496- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001497 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
1498 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00001499
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001500- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
1501 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
1502 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00001503
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001504- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
1505 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00001506 correctly now.
1507
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00001508- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
1509
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001510- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
1511 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00001512
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00001513- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
1514
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001515- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
1516 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
1517 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00001518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001519- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
1520 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
1521 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
1522 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00001523
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001524- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
1525 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
1526 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00001527
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00001528- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
1529 whitespace while wrapping.
1530
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00001531- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001532 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
1533 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00001534
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001535- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
1536 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
1537 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00001538
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00001539- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
1540 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
1541
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001542- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
1543 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00001544
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00001545- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
1546 concatenation in robotparser.
1547
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00001548- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001549 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
1550 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00001551
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00001552- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
1553 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
1554
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00001555- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
1556
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001557- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
1558 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
1559 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00001560
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001561- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
1562 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
1563 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00001564
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001565- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
1566 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00001567 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00001568
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00001569- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
1570 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
1571
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00001572- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
1573 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
1574
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00001575- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
1576 returned string up to the first NUL character.
1577
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00001578- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
1579
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00001580- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
1581
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001582- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
1583 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
1584 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00001585
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00001586- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
1587
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001588- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
1589 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
1590 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
1591 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
1592 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
1593 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00001594
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001595- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
1596 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00001597
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00001598- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
1599 comprehensive test suite for the module.
1600
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00001601- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
1602 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
1603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001604- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
1605 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
1606 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00001607
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00001608- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00001609 in HTMLParser.
1610
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00001611- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
1612 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
1613
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00001614- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
1615
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00001616- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
1617
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00001618- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
1619
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00001620- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00001621
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00001622- Added itertools.izip_longest().
1623
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001624- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
1625 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00001626
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00001627- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
1628
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00001629- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
1630 doesn't exist.
1631
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00001632- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
1633
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00001634- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
1635
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001636- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00001637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001638- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
1639 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00001640
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001641- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
1642 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00001643
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001644- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
1645 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00001646
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00001647- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00001648 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00001649
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00001650- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
1651 iso8859_16.
1652
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001653- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
1654 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
1655 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
1656 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00001657
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00001658- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
1659
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00001660- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
1661 directories.
1662
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00001663- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
1664
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001665- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
1666 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00001667
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00001668- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00001669 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00001670
1671- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00001672 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00001673
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00001674- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00001675
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001676- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
1677 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00001678
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00001679- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
1680
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00001681- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
1682 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
1683 parameterless foreign function calls work.
1684
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00001685- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
1686
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00001687- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
1688 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
1689 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
1690
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00001691- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
1692 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
1693
1694- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
1695 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
1696
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001697- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
1698 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
1699 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00001700
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001701- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
1702 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00001703
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00001704- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
1705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001706- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
1707 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00001708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001709- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
1710 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00001711
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001712- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
1713 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00001714
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00001715- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
1716 separated lists read from logging config files.
1717
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001718- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
1719 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
1720 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00001721
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001722- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
1723 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00001724
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00001725- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
1726
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001727- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
1728 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00001729
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00001730- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
1731
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00001732- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
1733
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001734- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
1735 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00001736
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00001737- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
1738 regular files.
1739
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00001740- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
1741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001742- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
1743 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00001744
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001745- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
1746 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00001747
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00001748- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
1749 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
1750
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00001751- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
1752 file name mangling.
1753
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001754- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
1755 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00001756
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00001757- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
1758
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00001759- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00001760 HTTPConnection.request().
1761
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00001762- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
1763 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
1764 objects.
1765
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001766- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
1767 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
1768 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00001769
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001770- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
1771 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
1772 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00001773
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00001774- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00001775
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00001776- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00001777
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00001778- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
1779
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00001780- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00001781 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00001782
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00001783- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
1784
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00001785- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
1786 GNU modes.
1787
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00001788- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
1789 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
1790 opcode.
1791
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00001792- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
1793 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
1794 statement (bug #1586513).
1795
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00001796- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
1797 correctly.
1798
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00001799- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
1800
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001801- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
1802 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00001803
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00001804- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
1805 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
1806 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
1807
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001808- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
1809 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
1810 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00001811
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001812- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
1813 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00001814
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00001815- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
1816
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00001817- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
1818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001819- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
1820 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00001821
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001822- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
1823 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00001824
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00001825- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
1826 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
1827
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00001828- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
1829 with a slash.
1830
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00001831- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
1832 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
1833
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001834- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data data and
1835 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00001836
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00001837- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
1838 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
1839 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
1840
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001841- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
1842 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00001843
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001844- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
1845 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00001846
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001847- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
1848 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00001849
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00001850- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
1851
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00001852- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00001853 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00001854
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001855- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
1856 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00001857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001858- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
1859 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00001860
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00001861- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
1862
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001863- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
1864 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00001865
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001866- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
1867 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
1868 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00001869
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001870- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
1871 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
1872 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00001873
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001874- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
1875 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
1876 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
1877 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00001878
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001879- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00001880 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
1881 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001882 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
1883 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
1884 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00001885
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001886- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
1887 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00001888
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001889Extension Modules
1890-----------------
1891
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00001892- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue
1893
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00001894- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
1895
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00001896- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
1897
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00001898- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3)
1899
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001900- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
1901 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00001902
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001903- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
1904 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00001905
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001906- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
1907 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00001908
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00001909- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
1910
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00001911- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
1912
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001913- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
1914 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00001915
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00001916- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
1917
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001918- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
1919 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00001920
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00001921- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
1922
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001923- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
1924 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00001925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001926- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00001927 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
1928 parameter.
1929
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001930- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
1931 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
1932 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
1933 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00001934
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001935- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
1936 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00001937
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001938- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
1939 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00001940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001941- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
1942 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
1943 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00001944
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001945- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
1946 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00001947
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00001948- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
1949
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00001950- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
1951
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001952- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
1953 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
1954 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00001955
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001956- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
1957 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00001958
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00001959- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
1960
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00001961- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
1962
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001963- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
1964 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
1965 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
1966 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00001967
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00001968- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
1969 get_completion_type to readline.
1970
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00001971- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
1972 structure.
1973
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00001974- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
1975
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00001976- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
1977
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00001978- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
1979 intended for RECNO databases.
1980
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00001981- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001982 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
1983 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
1984 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
1985 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
1986 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
1987 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00001988
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00001989- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
1990
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00001991- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
1992
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001993- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
1994 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
1995 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
1996 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
1997 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00001998
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00001999- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
2000 error in spite of a succesful compression.
2001
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00002002- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
2003 of Py_ssize_t.
2004
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00002005- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
2006 fractional times. With unittest.
2007
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002008- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
2009 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
2010 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00002011
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00002012- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
2013
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00002014- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
2015
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00002016- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
2017
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00002018- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
2019
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002020- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
2021 builtin types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00002022
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002023- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
2024 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00002025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002026- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
2027 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00002028
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00002029- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
2030 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
2031
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002032- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
2033 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
2034 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00002035
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00002036- Speed up function calls into the math module.
2037
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00002038- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
2039 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
2040 does.
2041
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00002042- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
2043
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00002044- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
2045
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00002046- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
2047
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00002048- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
2049
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00002050- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
2051 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
2052
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00002053- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
2054 datetime's strftime function.
2055
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00002056- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
2057
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00002058- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
2059
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002060- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
2061 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00002062
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00002063- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
2064
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00002065- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002066 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
2067 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00002068
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002069- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
2070 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00002071
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00002072- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002073 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
2074 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00002075 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
2076 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00002077 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00002078 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002079
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00002080- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
2081 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
2082 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
2083 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
2084
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00002085- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
2086 were transposed.
2087
Matthias Klose691632f2007-09-03 23:33:04 +00002088- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x
2089 and 4.6.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00002090
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002091- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
2092 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
2093 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00002094
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00002095- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
2096
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00002097- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
2098
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00002099- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
2100
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00002101- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00002102
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00002103- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
2104 databases without a DBEnv.
2105
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00002106- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
2107
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002108Tests
2109-----
2110
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00002111- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00002112
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002113- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
2114 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00002115
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002116- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
2117 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
2118 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00002119
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00002120- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
2121 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00002122
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002123- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
2124 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00002125
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002126- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
2127 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
2128 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00002129
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00002130- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
2131
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002132- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
2133 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
2134 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00002135
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00002136- Added some tests for modulefinder.
2137
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00002138- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
2139
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00002140- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
2141 number properly.
2142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002143- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
2144 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002145
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002146Tools
2147-----
2148
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002149- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
2150 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
2151 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
2152 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00002153
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002154- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
2155 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
2156 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00002157
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00002158- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
2159 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
2160
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002161- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
2162 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002163
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002164- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
2165 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002166
2167- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002168 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
2169 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002170
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002171
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002172Documentation
2173-------------
2174
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00002175- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
2176 include new optional delay argument.
2177
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002178- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
2179 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
2180 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002181
2182- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
2183 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
2184
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00002185- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
2186 Python tutorial.
2187
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00002188- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
2189
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002190- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
2191 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00002192
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00002193- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
2194 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
2195
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00002196- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
2197 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
2198
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00002199- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
2200
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00002201- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
2202 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
2203
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00002204- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
2205 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
2206
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00002207- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
2208 docs.
2209
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00002210- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
2211
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00002212- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
2213 string pointed to by its parameter.
2214
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00002215- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
2216
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00002217- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002218 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
2219 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
2220 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00002221
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002222
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00002223Tools/Demos
2224-----------
2225
2226- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00002227
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00002228- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002229 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
2230 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00002231
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00002232- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
2233 file not to get reported properly.
2234
2235
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002236Build
2237-----
2238
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002239- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
2240 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
2241 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00002242
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00002243- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
2244 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
2245
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00002246- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
2247
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002248- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002249
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002250- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
2251 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
2252 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
2253 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002254
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002255- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
2256 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002257
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00002258- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
2259
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00002260- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
2261 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
2262 without this option!
2263
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00002264- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
2265
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00002266- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002267 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
2268 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
2269 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00002270
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002271- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
2272 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00002273
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00002274- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
2275
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00002276- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
2277
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002278- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
2279 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00002280
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002281- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
2282 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00002283
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00002284- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
2285 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
2286 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
2287
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00002288- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
2289 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
2290
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00002291- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
2292
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00002293- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
2294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002295- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
2296 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00002297
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00002298- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00002299 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
2300
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002301- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
2302 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00002303
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00002304- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
2305
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002306- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00002307
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00002308- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
2309
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00002310- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
2311
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00002312- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002313
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002314- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
2315 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
2316 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00002317
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002318
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002319C API
2320-----
2321
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002322- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
2323 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
2324 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
2325 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00002326
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002327- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
2328 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
2329 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00002330
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002331- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00002332
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002333- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
2334 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
2335 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002336
2337- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
2338
2339- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
2340 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
2341
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002342- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
2343 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
2344 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
2345 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002347- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
2348 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002350- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
2351 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
2352 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002353
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002354- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
2355 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002356
2357- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
2358
2359- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
2360
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002361- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
2362
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002363- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
2364
2365- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
2366 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
2367
2368- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
2369 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
2370
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002371- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
2372 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
2373 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002374
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002375- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
2376 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002377
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002378- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
2379 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00002380
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002381
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00002382Windows
2383-------
2384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002385- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
2386 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
2387 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
2388 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00002389
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002390- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
2391 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00002392
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00002393- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
2394
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00002395
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002396Mac
2397---
2398
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00002399- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
2400
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00002401- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
2402
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002403- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
2404 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
2405 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00002406
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002407----
2408
2409**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**