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Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00001Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002+++++++++++
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Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06004What's New in Python 2.7.4
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Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02006
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06007*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02008
9Core and Builtins
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11
Antoine Pitrouff0e22b2012-05-28 22:22:34 +020012- Issue #14775: Fix a potential quadratic dict build-up due to the garbage
13 collector repeatedly trying to untrack dicts.
14
Petri Lehtinen5f397062012-05-19 18:34:06 +030015- Issue #14494: Fix __future__.py and its documentation to note that
16 absolute imports are the default behavior in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
17 Patch by Sven Marnach.
18
Antoine Pitrou284fa082012-05-09 13:24:31 +020019- Issue #14761: Fix potential leak on an error case in the import machinery.
20
Benjamin Peterson042c47b2012-05-01 09:51:09 -040021- Issue #14699: Fix calling the classmethod descriptor directly.
22
Benjamin Petersond157a4c2012-04-24 11:06:25 -040023- Issue #11603 (again): Setting __repr__ to __str__ now raises a RuntimeError
24 when repr() or str() is called on such an object.
25
26- Issue #14658: Fix binding a special method to a builtin implementation of a
27 special method with a different name.
28
Benjamin Peterson76605552012-04-18 11:14:31 -040029- Issue #14612: Fix jumping around with blocks by setting f_lineno.
30
Mark Dickinson9c0baf72012-04-15 15:19:06 +010031- Issue #13889: Check and (if necessary) set FPU control word before calling
32 any of the dtoa.c string <-> float conversion functions, on MSVC builds of
33 Python. This fixes issues when embedding Python in a Delphi app.
34
Antoine Pitrou02a38012012-04-05 14:07:52 +020035- Issue #14505: Fix file descriptor leak when deallocating file objects
36 created with PyFile_FromString().
37
Benjamin Petersonf73813a2012-04-02 11:15:17 -040038- Issue #14474: Save and restore exception state in thread.start_new_thread()
39 while writing error message if the thread leaves a unhandled exception.
40
Antoine Pitroufe941772012-04-01 16:05:46 +020041- Issue #13019: Fix potential reference leaks in bytearray.extend(). Patch
42 by Suman Saha.
43
Benjamin Petersoneff19a12012-03-22 08:19:04 -040044- Issue #14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string as
45 the module name that was not interned.
46
Gregory P. Smithfcdf04b2012-03-18 16:07:10 -070047- Issue #14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by
48 allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack.
49
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -050050- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
Benjamin Petersondbc52f82012-03-16 10:58:46 -050051 passed strings. Also fix segfaults in the __getattribute__ and __setattr__
52 methods of old-style classes.
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -050053
Ezio Melotti11f8b682012-03-12 01:17:02 +020054- Issue #14161: fix the __repr__ of file objects to escape the file name.
55
Benjamin Petersona8d45852012-03-07 18:41:11 -060056- Issue #1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be
57 collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``).
58
Antoine Pitrou6a1cd1b2012-02-27 00:45:12 +010059- Issue #13521: dict.setdefault() now does only one lookup for the given key,
60 making it "atomic" for many purposes. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
61
krisvale479c8f82012-03-22 20:17:42 +000062- Issue #10538: When using the "s*" code with PyArg_ParseTuple() to fill a
63 Py_buffer structure with data from an object supporting only the old
64 PyBuffer interface, a reference to the source objects is now properly added
65 to the Py_buffer.obj member.
66
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -060067Library
68-------
69
Meador Inge43f42fc2012-06-16 21:05:50 -050070- Issue #15054: A bug in tokenize.tokenize that caused string literals
71 with 'b' and 'br' prefixes to be incorrectly tokenized has been fixed.
72 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
73
Petri Lehtinen7cf66992012-06-15 20:50:51 +030074- Issue #15036: Allow removing or changing multiple items in
75 single-file mailboxes (mbox, MMDF, Babyl) flushing the mailbox
76 between the changes.
77
Richard Oudkerk926f58d2012-06-11 15:11:35 +010078- Issue #10133: Make multiprocessing deallocate buffer if socket read
79 fails. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
80
Richard Oudkerk2182e052012-06-06 19:01:14 +010081- Issue #13854: Make multiprocessing properly handle non-integer
82 non-string argument to SystemExit.
83
Richard Oudkerkd44a4a22012-06-06 17:52:18 +010084- Issue #12157: Make pool.map() empty iterables correctly. Initial
85 patch by mouad.
86
Ned Deily5e247b72012-05-31 09:17:29 -070087- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
88 options. Patch by Roger Serwy.
89
Ned Deily71489842012-05-29 10:42:34 -070090- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
91
Terry Jan Reedy5525eb72012-06-07 19:50:30 -040092- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes Idle.
Terry Jan Reedyd9d276b2012-05-27 21:28:42 -040093 Original patch by Roger Serwy.
94
Terry Jan Reedyeaa7e782012-05-26 20:33:32 -040095- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing
96 even when parent window is closed. Patch by Roger Serwy.
97
Terry Jan Reedy42f7b7e2012-05-26 16:55:43 -040098- Issue #14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration.
99 Patch by Roger Serwy.
100
Senthil Kumaran37484dc2012-05-24 21:54:34 +0800101- Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
102 not go in illegal range and returns None.
103
Antoine Pitroucd8799f2012-05-23 23:16:14 +0200104- Issue #14888: Fix misbehaviour of the _md5 module when called on data
105 larger than 2**32 bytes.
106
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -0600107- Issue #14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json module.
108
Ned Deily77e77a12012-05-19 23:35:05 -0700109- Issue #14572: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of
110 sqlite3, such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
111
Senthil Kumaranf439a362012-05-20 12:02:44 +0800112- Issue #14426: Correct the Date format in Expires attribute of Set-Cookie
113 Header in Cookie.py.
114
Senthil Kumaran618802d2012-05-19 16:52:21 +0800115- Issue #14721: Send proper header, Content-length: 0 when the body is an empty
116 string ''. Initial Patch contributed by Arve Knudsen.
117
Ezio Melotti6d9c1b12012-05-19 17:12:17 +0300118- Issue #14072: Fix parsing of 'tel' URIs in urlparse by making the check for
119 ports stricter.
120
Senthil Kumaranea24dda2012-05-19 08:10:40 +0800121- Issue #9374: Generic parsing of query and fragment portions of url for any
122 scheme. Supported both by RFC3986 and RFC2396.
123
Petri Lehtinen280e9f72012-05-18 21:51:11 +0300124- Issue #14798: Fix the functions in pyclbr to raise an ImportError
125 when the first part of a dotted name is not a package. Patch by
126 Xavier de Gaye.
127
R David Murray69493922012-05-16 14:01:03 -0400128- Issue #14832: fixed the order of the argument references in the error
129 message produced by unittest's assertItemsEqual.
130
Antoine Pitrou38fbd792012-05-16 15:01:40 +0200131- Issue #14829: Fix bisect issues under 64-bit Windows.
132
Ned Deily724a55c2012-05-15 18:05:57 -0700133- Issue #14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when
134 accessing the Tk clipboard. Modify clipboad_get() to first request type
135 UTF8_STRING when no specific type is requested in an X11 windowing
136 environment, falling back to the current default type STRING if that fails.
137 Original patch by Thomas Kluyver.
138
Senthil Kumaran6a2a6c22012-05-15 22:24:10 +0800139- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field with HTTP Basic
140 Authentation in urllib2.
141
Ned Deilyacdc56d2012-05-10 17:45:49 -0700142- Issue #14662: Prevent shutil failures on OS X when destination does not
143 support chflag operations. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
144
Antoine Pitrouc2b714c2012-05-10 20:17:46 +0200145- Issue #14157: Fix time.strptime failing without a year on February 29th.
146 Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
147
Jesus Ceaf2011e32012-05-10 05:01:11 +0200148- Issue #14768: os.path.expanduser('~/a') doesn't works correctly when HOME is '/'.
149
Senthil Kumaran7f6d4e12012-05-01 10:36:28 +0800150- Issue #13183: Fix pdb skipping frames after hitting a breakpoint and running
151 step. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
152
Antoine Pitrou38153162012-04-25 17:31:12 +0200153- Issue #14664: It is now possible to use @unittest.skip{If,Unless} on a
154 test class that doesn't inherit from TestCase (i.e. a mixin).
155
Lars Gustäbel231d4742012-04-24 22:42:08 +0200156- Issue #14160: TarFile.extractfile() failed to resolve symbolic links when
157 the links were not located in an archive subdirectory.
158
R David Murrayc313b1d2012-04-23 13:27:11 -0400159- Issue #14638: pydoc now treats non-string __name__ values as if they
160 were missing, instead of raising an error.
161
Senthil Kumaran4c20c4e2012-04-23 23:52:40 +0800162- Issue #13684: Fix httplib tunnel issue of infinite loops for certain sites
163 which send EOF without trailing \r\n.
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -0600164
Antoine Pitrou52849bf2012-04-19 23:55:01 +0200165- Issue #14308: Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is in the threading
166 module's active list after a fork().
167
Ezio Melottic45868e2012-04-18 19:08:41 -0600168- Issue #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain
169 a bare '/'.
170
Vinay Sajip7e9c9d52012-04-16 14:38:23 +0100171- Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
172
Mark Dickinson0407e962012-04-15 16:43:19 +0100173- Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
174 to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.
175
R David Murray9955ad42012-04-13 21:27:00 -0400176- Issue #14399: zipfile now recognizes that the archive has been modified even
177 if only the comment is changed. As a consequence of this fix, ZipFile is now
178 a new style class.
R David Murray3f4ccba2012-04-12 18:42:47 -0400179
Antoine Pitroufa1d8412012-04-09 00:47:24 +0200180- Issue #7978: SocketServer now restarts the select() call when EINTR is
181 returned. This avoids crashing the server loop when a signal is received.
182 Patch by Jerzy Kozera.
183
Andrew Svetlov8af87292012-03-31 14:34:16 +0300184- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
185 when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
186 has to use the built-in default key bindings.
187 There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
Andrew Svetlovc37db102012-03-29 19:54:58 +0300188
Giampaolo Rodola'96cb5d12012-03-22 16:06:43 +0100189- Issue #10340: asyncore - properly handle EINVAL in dispatcher constructor on
190 OSX; avoid to call handle_connect in case of a disconnected socket which
191 was not meant to connect.
192
R David Murrayb3f95d72012-03-21 15:02:30 -0400193- Issue #12757: Fix the skipping of doctests when python is run with -OO so
194 that it works in unittest's verbose mode as well as non-verbose mode.
195
Andrew Svetlov7c010ee2012-03-21 13:35:08 +0200196- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
197 (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
198
Giampaolo Rodola'3d3cf482012-03-20 16:46:57 +0100199- Issue #13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
200 attribute.
201
Senthil Kumaran51a65c92012-03-16 01:07:16 -0700202- Issue #10484: Fix the CGIHTTPServer's PATH_INFO handling problem.
203
Senthil Kumaran4c592112012-03-15 13:24:40 -0700204- Issue #11199: Fix the with urllib which hangs on particular ftp urls.
205
Martin v. Löwisf163efd2012-03-13 14:46:22 -0700206- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
207
Antoine Pitrouf60845b2012-03-11 19:29:12 +0100208- Issue #14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under
209 Windows when the child process has already exited.
210
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600211- Issue #14195: An issue that caused weakref.WeakSet instances to incorrectly
212 return True for a WeakSet instance 'a' in both 'a < a' and 'a > a' has been
213 fixed.
214
215- Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak sets to return a better approximation
216 when some objects are dead or dying. Moreover, the implementation is now
217 O(1) rather than O(n).
218
219- Issue #2945: Make the distutils upload command aware of bdist_rpm products.
220
221- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
222 scripts found in the Tools directory.
223
224- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
225 on Windows.
226
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +0200227Tests
228-----
229
230- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
231 a test failure in test_ssl.
232
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +0200233Build
234-----
235
Martin v. Löwised11a5d2012-05-20 10:42:17 +0200236- Issue #8767: Restore building with --disable-unicode.
237 Patch by Stefano Taschini.
238
Martin v. Löwisfd0afed2012-05-15 17:26:31 +0200239- Build against bzip2 1.0.6 and openssl 0.9.8x on Windows.
240
Charles-François Natali0d3db3a2012-04-12 19:11:54 +0200241- Issue #14557: Fix extensions build on HP-UX. Patch by Adi Roiban.
242
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +0200243- Issue #14437: Fix building the _io module under Cygwin.
244
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +0300245Documentation
246-------------
247
248- Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial.
249
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600250
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -0700251What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 2?
252===============================================
253
Benjamin Petersonee933ec2012-03-15 12:25:54 -0500254*Release date: 2012-03-17*
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -0700255
256Library
257-------
258
259- Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash
260 table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a
261 denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with some
262 modifications by the expat project.
263
264
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600265What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 1?
266===============================================
267
268*Release date: 2012-02-23*
269
270Core and Builtins
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272
Antoine Pitrouc66ed452012-02-15 02:51:43 +0100273- Issue #13020: Fix a reference leak when allocating a structsequence object
274 fails. Patch by Suman Saha.
275
Barry Warsaw1e13eb02012-02-20 20:42:21 -0500276- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: add -R command-line option and PYTHONHASHSEED
277 environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of
278 service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types. Patch
279 by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
280
Antoine Pitroud1c818a2012-01-24 17:44:06 +0100281- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
282 modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.
283
Jason R. Coombs042370e2011-12-26 10:15:15 -0500284- Issue #11638: Unicode strings in 'name' and 'version' no longer cause
285 UnicodeDecodeErrors.
286
Antoine Pitrou5b4b2da2011-12-15 14:15:31 +0100287- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
288 effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for
289 noticing.
290
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4bf21e22011-12-07 21:46:48 +0100291- Issue #13546: Fixed an overflow issue that could crash the intepreter when
292 calling sys.setrecursionlimit((1<<31)-1).
293
Antoine Pitrou30402542011-11-15 01:49:40 +0100294- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
295 already accepts them).
296
Petri Lehtinen8028dc22011-10-30 20:59:10 +0200297- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
298 setobject.c.
299
Benjamin Peterson0c0d7562011-10-27 08:21:59 -0400300- Issue #13268: Fix the assert statement when a tuple is passed as the message.
301
Petri Lehtinen8ffbab82011-10-24 20:59:29 +0300302- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
303 Patch by Suman Saha.
304
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +0800305- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
306 warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
307
Mark Hammond323b5da2011-10-17 11:05:36 +1100308- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
309 longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
310 embedded situations.
311
Benjamin Petersona7b09762011-10-15 13:43:21 -0400312- Issue #13186: Fix __delitem__ on old-style instances when invoked through
313 PySequence_DelItem.
314
Charles-François Natali40ab0022011-10-12 22:29:09 +0200315- Issue #13156: Revert the patch for issue #10517 (reset TLS upon fork()),
316 which was only relevant for the native pthread TLS implementation.
317
Victor Stinner63c22fa2011-09-23 19:37:03 +0200318- Issue #7732: Fix a crash on importing a module if a directory has the same
319 name than a Python module (e.g. "__init__.py"): don't close the file twice.
320
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +0100321- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that invoked undefined behaviour in
322 int.__pow__. These overflow checks were causing int.__pow__ to produce
323 incorrect results with recent versions of Clang, as a result of the
Mark Dickinsona96b0d12011-09-24 09:01:16 +0100324 compiler optimizing the check away. Also fix similar overflow checks
325 in list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These
326 bugs caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +0100327
Ezio Melotti15d6b652011-08-15 09:22:24 +0300328- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
329 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
330
Benjamin Peterson6c18ff02011-07-22 10:41:44 -0500331- Issues #12610 and #12609: Verify that user generated AST has correct string
332 and identifier types before compiling.
333
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400334- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
335 non-exception class.
Benjamin Petersonc3349cd2011-07-15 14:15:40 -0500336
Antoine Pitrou16166452011-07-12 22:04:20 +0200337- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionnary gets
338 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
339 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
340 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
341 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
342
Florent Xiclunaa1f948b2012-01-24 21:05:10 +0100343- Issue #12501: Remove Py3k warning for callable. callable() is supported
344 again in Python 3.2.
Victor Stinnerba8b3a22011-07-08 02:07:45 +0200345
Victor Stinner59729ff2011-07-05 11:28:19 +0200346- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read(), FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write() and
347 os.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
348
Victor Stinnerd3c7e172011-05-30 23:49:13 +0200349- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200350 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
351 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
352
Łukasz Langa7a153902011-10-18 17:16:00 +0200353- Issue #10860: httplib now correctly handles an empty port after port
354 delimiter in URLs.
355
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400356- dict_proxy objects now display their contents rather than just the class
357 name.
Raymond Hettingerbf7a2662011-06-30 00:44:36 +0100358
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200359Library
360-------
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +0200361
Petri Lehtinen4ab701b2012-02-21 13:58:40 +0200362- Issue #8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions
363 on 32-bit architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer.
364
Ezio Melotti36b73612012-02-21 09:22:16 +0200365- HTMLParser is now able to handle slashes in the start tag.
366
Charles-François Natali66f3cc62012-02-18 14:15:38 +0100367- Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in
368 SimpleXMLRPCServer upon malformed POST request.
369
Gregory P. Smith14dc5102012-02-16 00:44:50 -0800370- Issue #2489: pty.spawn could consume 100% cpu when it encountered an EOF.
371
Antoine Pitroudd7e0712012-02-15 22:25:27 +0100372- Issue #13014: Fix a possible reference leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
373
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +0200374- Issue #13987: HTMLParser is now able to handle EOFs in the middle of a
Ezio Melotti65d36da2012-02-15 13:19:10 +0200375 construct and malformed start tags.
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +0200376
Antoine Pitrouc39cd782012-02-15 02:42:46 +0100377- Issue #13015: Fix a possible reference leak in defaultdict.__repr__.
378 Patch by Suman Saha.
379
Meador Ingeff337cc2012-02-13 22:22:06 -0600380- Issue #13979: A bug in ctypes.util.find_library that caused
381 the wrong library name to be returned has been fixed.
382
Éric Araujoe897a742012-02-15 16:28:20 +0100383- Issue #1326113: distutils' build_ext command --libraries option now
384 correctly parses multiple values separated by whitespace or commas.
385
Ezio Melottif1174432012-02-13 16:28:54 +0200386- Issue #13993: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken end tags.
387
Ezio Melotti4b92cc32012-02-13 16:10:44 +0200388- Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments.
389
Petri Lehtinen587209f2012-02-12 21:03:02 +0200390- Issue #9750: Fix sqlite3.Connection.iterdump on tables and fields
391 with a name that is a keyword or contains quotes. Patch by Marko
392 Kohtala.
393
Florent Xiclunac2279652012-02-12 14:49:03 +0100394- Issue #13994: Earlier partial revert of Distutils enhancements in 2.7
Ned Deilyc47a4592012-02-11 20:40:24 +0100395 has left two versions of customize_compiler, the original in
396 distutils.sysconfig and another copy in distutils.ccompiler, with some
397 parts of distutils calling one and others using the other.
398 Complete the revert back to only having one in distutils.sysconfig as
399 is the case in 3.x.
400
Ned Deily0d0ea482012-02-10 12:59:06 +0100401- Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
402 Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
403 Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
404 64-bit/32-bit Pythons. If the user does not explicitly override
405 the default C compiler by setting the CC environment variable,
406 Distutils will now attempt to compile extension modules with clang
407 if gcc-4.2 is required but not found. Also as a convenience, if
408 the user does explicitly set CC, substitute its value as the default
409 compiler in the Distutils LDSHARED configuration variable for OS X.
410 (Note, the python.org 32-bit-only Pythons use gcc-4.0 and the 10.4u
411 SDK, neither of which are available in Xcode 4. This change does not
412 attempt to override settings to support their use with Xcode 4.)
413
Senthil Kumaran59e7c8f2012-02-09 18:22:01 +0800414- Issue #9021: Add an introduction to the copy module documentation.
415
Senthil Kumaran607e31e2012-02-09 17:43:31 +0800416- Issue #6005: Examples in the socket library documentation use sendall, where
417 relevant, instead send method.
418
Petri Lehtinenc7fd5232011-05-09 12:24:09 +0200419- Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
420 raise a ProgrammingError now.
421
Ned Deily2c8bf042012-02-06 00:55:50 +0100422- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failures with OS X framework builds.
423
Terry Jan Reedyadb87e22012-02-05 15:10:55 -0500424- Issue #964437 Make IDLE help window non-modal.
425 Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
426
Ned Deily61c95342012-02-04 18:35:23 +0100427- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
428 module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
429
Ned Deilyfbc56fd2012-02-03 02:39:49 +0100430- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
431
Petri Lehtinen0518f472012-02-01 22:20:12 +0200432- Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
433
Terry Jan Reedyb98000a2012-01-31 02:09:25 -0500434- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
435 Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
436
Antoine Pitrou88c51e82012-01-28 22:01:59 +0100437- Issue #13806: The size check in audioop decompression functions was too
438 strict and could reject valid compressed data. Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
439
Antoine Pitroud358e052012-01-27 09:42:45 +0100440- Issue #13885: CVE-2011-3389: the _ssl module would always disable the CBC
441 IV attack countermeasure.
442
Senthil Kumaranb05f91d2012-01-21 11:45:12 +0800443- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
444
Nadeem Vawdad7664de2012-01-19 00:40:46 +0200445- Issue #13781: Prevent gzip.GzipFile from using the dummy filename provided by
446 file objects opened with os.fdopen().
447
Antoine Pitrou3b6a3142012-01-17 17:13:04 +0100448- Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module.
449 Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
450
Jesus Cea4a8ba192012-01-18 03:51:38 +0100451- Issue #13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness
452 in the directory name.
453
Senthil Kumaranbcd833f2012-01-11 00:09:24 +0800454- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
455 Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto and Michele Orrù.
456
Antoine Pitroud76088d2012-01-03 22:46:48 +0100457- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
458 (except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
459
Senthil Kumaran84c18aa2011-12-23 11:14:56 +0800460- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
461
Lars Gustäbel7d4d0742011-12-21 19:27:50 +0100462- Issue #13639: Accept unicode filenames in tarfile.open(mode="w|gz").
463
Antoine Pitroub8572a12011-12-21 10:16:14 +0100464- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
465
Antoine Pitrou7a3d8ae2011-12-18 19:27:45 +0100466- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances. Patch by
467 Cédric Krier.
468
Charles-François Natali41616302011-12-18 18:22:24 +0100469- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
470 condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
471
Charles-François Natalif3d35f02011-12-18 15:52:48 +0100472- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
473 redirection or an error.
474
Ned Deilyd8fdbad2011-12-14 15:05:42 -0800475- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint
476 files, display a message popup and continue rather than crash.
477 (original patch by Roger Serwy)
478
Lars Gustäbel9a388632011-12-06 13:07:09 +0100479- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
480 other than 900k.
481
Raymond Hettingerf5377022011-12-11 22:31:09 -0800482- Issue #13573: The csv.writer now uses the repr() for floats rather than str().
483 This allows floats to round-trip without loss of precision.
484
Petri Lehtinen49e49a22011-12-02 21:09:30 +0200485- Issue #13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.
486
Antoine Pitroua5d5bb92011-11-25 21:28:15 +0100487- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
488 seed for filename generation in the tempfile module. Patch by Brian
489 Harring.
490
Antoine Pitrouaa1c9672011-11-23 01:39:19 +0100491- Issue #13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a
492 certificate with a subjectAltName. Patch by Robert Xiao.
493
Victor Stinner53853c32011-11-22 22:20:13 +0100494- Issue #13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.
495
Antoine Pitrou5aa7df32011-11-21 20:16:44 +0100496- Issue #13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
497 raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would block.
498 Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise BlockingIOError, but
499 RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when the call would block.
500 Patch by sbt.
501
Ezio Melotti00dc60b2011-11-18 18:00:40 +0200502- Issue #13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.
503
Ezio Melotti93bbb6a2011-11-18 17:30:28 +0200504- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
505 node when it is the only child of an element. Initial patch by Dan
506 Kenigsberg.
507
Ned Deily174c4f82011-11-15 18:29:02 -0800508- Issue #8793: Prevent IDLE crash when given strings with invalid hex escape
509 sequences.
510
Ezio Melotti0f1571c2011-11-14 18:04:05 +0200511- Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
512 handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.
513
Antoine Pitrou6a570d62011-11-10 00:33:50 +0100514- Issue #13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
515 when called with a timeout. Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.
516
Petri Lehtinen416ecff2011-11-05 10:18:50 +0200517- Issue #3067: Enhance the documentation and docstring of
518 locale.setlocale().
519
Petri Lehtinen49aa72e2011-11-05 09:50:37 +0200520- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
521 are read correctly.
522
Florent Xicluna5f761d72011-11-04 10:15:57 +0100523- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
524
Florent Xiclunac4a11bd2011-11-01 23:47:46 +0100525- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
526
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +0200527- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
528 ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
529
530- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
Senthil Kumaran87e58552011-11-01 02:44:45 +0800531 when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
532
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +0200533- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
Ned Deily86d669b2011-10-30 19:58:04 -0700534 (Patch by Roger Serwy)
535
Florent Xicluna67d5d0e2011-10-29 03:38:56 +0200536- Issue #7334: close source files on ElementTree.parse and iterparse.
537
Vinay Sajipc515eba2011-10-24 23:26:00 +0100538- Issue #13232: logging: Improved logging of exceptions in the presence of
539 multiple encodings.
540
Charles-François Natali46f990e2011-10-24 18:43:51 +0200541- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
542 before all tasks have completed.
543
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +0200544- Issue #1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
545 arguments with the system default encoding just like the write() method
Éric Araujob21f51a2011-10-23 04:37:51 +0200546 does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer. This also fixes handling of
547 unicode input in the shlex module (#6988, #1170).
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +0200548
Florent Xicluna47fb1922011-10-20 23:21:58 +0200549- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
550
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +0800551- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
552 semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
553
Senthil Kumaranddd40312011-10-20 01:38:35 +0800554- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
555 earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
556
Nadeem Vawdadeb1ce72011-10-17 19:33:38 +0200557- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
558 now available on Windows.
559
Éric Araujo017e5352011-10-09 07:11:19 +0200560- Issue #13114: Fix the distutils commands check and register when the
561 long description is a Unicode string with non-ASCII characters.
562
Ned Deilybd9d07c2011-10-06 14:29:49 -0700563- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
564 contents cannot be read.
565
566- Issue #7425: Prevent pydoc -k failures due to module import errors.
567 (Backport to 2.7 of existing 3.x fix)
568
Antoine Pitrouace2ccf2011-10-04 13:38:04 +0200569- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
570 Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
571
Antoine Pitrou561a8212011-10-04 09:34:48 +0200572- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
573 metaclass is registered with copy_reg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and
574 Craig Citro.
575
Charles-François Natali564f8902011-09-29 19:43:01 +0200576- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
577 Thomas Jarosch.
578
Victor Stinner51b71982011-09-23 01:15:32 +0200579- Issue #12931: xmlrpclib now encodes Unicode URI to ISO-8859-1, instead of
580 failing with a UnicodeDecodeError.
581
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +0200582- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files will now correctly report
583 Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or Download-URL field is
584 present.
585
Éric Araujo0f2dbf32011-09-03 00:47:07 +0200586- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
587 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200588
Lars Gustäbel8babfdf2011-09-05 17:04:18 +0200589- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
590 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
591 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
592 information was lost.
593
Éric Araujo429b8902011-08-30 01:48:59 +0200594- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
595 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
596
Charles-François Natalifda7b372011-08-28 16:22:33 +0200597- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
598 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
599
Nadeem Vawdabbabbae2011-08-28 11:23:57 +0200600- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
601 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
602
Charles-François Natali2a34eb32011-08-25 21:20:54 +0200603- Issue #12786: Set communication pipes used by subprocess.Popen CLOEXEC to
604 avoid them being inherited by other subprocesses.
605
Antoine Pitrou77657e42011-08-24 22:41:05 +0200606- Issue #4106: Fix occasional exceptions printed out by multiprocessing on
607 interpreter shutdown.
608
Antoine Pitroua1a8da82011-08-23 19:54:20 +0200609- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
610 Pipe.
611
Antoine Pitrou808cec52011-08-20 15:40:58 +0200612- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
613 could appear on io.BufferedRandom streams.
614
Victor Stinneracacbaa2011-08-20 14:02:38 +0200615- Issue #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python
616 is compiled on Linux 3.
617
Jesus Cead256ca12011-09-19 16:57:18 +0200618- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
619
Éric Araujoe7329f42011-08-19 03:07:39 +0200620- Issue #9173: Let shutil._make_archive work if the logger argument is None.
621
Charles-François Natalib02302c2011-08-18 17:18:28 +0200622- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
623 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
624
Barry Warsaw39935f42011-08-15 19:50:35 -0400625- Issue #12752: Fix regression which prevented locale.normalize() from
626 accepting unicode strings.
627
Senthil Kumaranf432aec2011-08-03 18:31:59 +0800628- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
629 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
630
Éric Araujo33af2632011-08-02 03:16:12 +0200631- Issue #11933: Fix incorrect mtime comparison in distutils.
632
Éric Araujo560bf852011-07-31 02:04:00 +0200633- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
634 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
635
Éric Araujo9a528302011-07-29 17:34:35 +0200636- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
637 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
638
Charles-François Natali0cf7e252011-07-27 19:36:40 +0200639- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
640
Raymond Hettinger55e5e272011-07-28 23:56:38 -0700641- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
642 collections when it is done.
643
Ross Lagerwalld8e39012011-07-27 18:54:53 +0200644- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
645 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
646
Ross Lagerwall528c4ad2011-07-25 07:23:58 +0200647- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
648 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
649
Charles-François Natali3de8c732011-07-24 22:33:35 +0200650- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
651
Antoine Pitrou4cfae022011-07-24 02:51:01 +0200652- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup and setting/getting locales under Turkish
653 locales.
654
Nadeem Vawda0d2889f2011-07-23 16:13:01 +0200655- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib when using FTP.
Nadeem Vawdab42c53e2011-07-23 15:51:16 +0200656
Charles-François Natali97781b02011-07-22 23:43:42 +0200657- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
658
Charles-François Natali4929eb92011-07-21 19:41:04 +0200659- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
660
Antoine Pitrou495ee8f2011-07-20 00:26:23 +0200661- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
662 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
663 Linux 3.0.
664
R David Murray95225952011-07-18 21:34:04 -0400665- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
666 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
667
Antoine Pitrou304f0f92011-07-15 21:22:50 +0200668- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
669 Andreas Stührk.
670
Charles-François Natali26591402011-07-14 19:49:02 +0200671- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
672
Victor Stinnerbf547fd2011-07-13 21:47:31 +0200673- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
674 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
675
Victor Stinnere7901312011-07-05 14:08:01 +0200676- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
677 if the process has only one pipe.
678
Victor Stinner65c15352011-07-04 03:05:37 +0200679- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
680 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
681
Charles-François Natali414d0fa2011-07-02 13:56:19 +0200682- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
683 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
684
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -0700685- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
686 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
687 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
688 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
689 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
690 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
691 still possible to globally override the default by setting
692 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
693 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
694 was built.
695
Raymond Hettinger2c316a32011-06-25 17:14:53 +0200696- Issue #11802: The cache in filecmp now has a maximum size of 100 so that
697 it won't grow without bound.
698
Ross Lagerwallffa8e2f2011-06-25 09:55:10 +0200699- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
700 Kitada.
701
R David Murrayf1138bb2011-06-17 22:23:04 -0400702- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
703 times without error, and _ProxyFile now closes the wrapped file.
704
Victor Stinnerc74a6ba2011-06-17 14:06:27 +0200705- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
706 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
707 written by Ezio Melotti.
708
Benjamin Peterson0eb4ac42011-06-11 15:53:11 -0500709- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
710 functions.
711
R David Murray873c5832011-06-09 16:01:09 -0400712- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
713
Brian Curtincaea7e82011-06-08 19:29:53 -0500714- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
715 instead of os.stat.
716
Mark Dickinsona493ca32011-06-04 18:24:15 +0100717- Issue #12080: Fix a performance issue in Decimal._power_exact that caused
718 some corner-case Decimal.__pow__ calls to take an unreasonably long time.
719
Raymond Hettinger45b08292011-06-02 20:40:35 -0700720- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
721
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400722- sys.setcheckinterval() now updates the current ticker count as well as
723 updating the check interval, so if the user decreases the check interval,
724 the ticker doesn't have to wind down to zero from the old starting point
725 before the new interval takes effect. And if the user increases the
726 interval, it makes sure the new limit takes effect right away rather have an
727 early task switch before recognizing the new interval.
Raymond Hettinger19b851d2011-06-01 18:21:42 -0700728
Victor Stinner776e69b2011-06-01 01:03:00 +0200729- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
730 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
731 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
732
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400733Extension Modules
734-----------------
735
Meador Ingefe7aa492012-05-28 13:52:59 -0500736- Issue #9041: An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and
737 ctypes.c_float that caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the
738 case of overflow has been fixed.
739
Jesus Cea23fbd8c2012-01-17 00:17:10 +0100740- bsddb module: Erratic behaviour of "DBEnv->rep_elect()" because a typo.
741 Possible crash.
742
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdee76e62012-01-13 22:53:25 +0100743- Issue #13774: json: Fix a SystemError when a bogus encoding is passed to
744 json.loads().
745
Charles-François Natali3aa59e32012-01-02 15:38:27 +0100746- Issue #9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
747 Vilmos Nebehaj.
748
Nadeem Vawda36248152011-10-13 13:52:46 +0200749- Issue #13159: FileIO, BZ2File, and the built-in file class now use a
750 linear-time buffer growth strategy instead of a quadratic one.
751
Charles-François Natali9ffcbf72011-10-06 19:09:45 +0200752- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
753 would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
754 writer got cleared by the GC.
755
Meador Ingead349a12011-10-03 21:34:04 -0500756- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
757
Meador Ingefe150032011-09-27 20:35:28 -0500758- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
759 Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
760
Jesus Ceac23484b2011-09-21 03:47:39 +0200761- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
762 file descriptor was actually received.
763
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc439c25e2011-09-12 20:12:09 +0200764- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
765 object triggers the garbage collector.
766
Jesus Cea6ebaca12011-09-10 04:35:18 +0200767- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
768 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
769
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccf316a12011-09-02 20:32:23 +0200770- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
771 a string.
772
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3d7f2362011-08-30 21:04:35 +0200773- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
774 some functions like file.write().
775
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400776- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
777 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
778 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
779
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700780Build
781-----
782
Martin v. Löwisa1b2af82012-02-21 18:12:02 +0100783- Issue #6807: Run msisupport.mak earlier.
784
Martin v. Löwisef281bd2012-02-21 17:07:32 +0100785- Issue #10580: Minor grammar change in Windows installer.
786
Ned Deilyc5df5632012-02-19 02:19:12 +0100787- Issue #12627: Implement PEP 394 for Python 2.7 ("python2").
788
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700789- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
790 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
791 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
792 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
793
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -0400794Tools/Demos
795-----------
796
Nadeem Vawdaf00011a2012-02-22 11:40:09 +0200797- Issue #14053: patchcheck.py ("make patchcheck") now works with MQ patches.
798 Patch by Francisco Martín Brugué.
799
Gregory P. Smith12426992012-02-12 15:51:21 -0800800- Issue #13930: 2to3 is now able to write its converted output files to another
801 directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
802 suffix. See its new -o, -W and --add-suffix options. This makes it more
803 useful in many automated code translation workflows.
804
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -0400805- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
806 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
807
Victor Stinner99cff3f2011-12-19 13:59:58 +0100808- Issue #13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
809 traceback if Python is optimized.
810
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +0200811Tests
812-----
813
Petri Lehtinen437b1492012-02-17 21:34:41 +0200814- Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test.
815 Initial patch by Torsten Landschoff.
816
Ned Deily1aacd7b2011-10-31 16:14:52 -0700817- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
818 PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
819
Barry Warsawbf0cafa2011-10-28 16:16:58 -0400820- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
821
Charles-François Natalicdaafe02011-08-23 19:42:02 +0200822- Issue #12821: Fix test_fcntl failures on OpenBSD 5.
823
Éric Araujo498da2c2011-07-31 17:59:28 +0200824- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
825 Python.
826
Ned Deily0ab67ee2011-07-13 15:05:31 -0700827- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
828 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
829
Antoine Pitrou4a4a0fe2011-07-09 02:34:05 +0200830- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
831 failure in name resolution.
832
Jesus Ceacb65f322011-11-08 16:06:44 +0100833- Issue #11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'
834 in test_telnetlib.py.
835
Jesus Cea71094b52011-11-08 15:54:42 +0100836- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
837
Antoine Pitrou29603082011-07-08 19:40:15 +0200838- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
839 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
840 Web site.
841
Antoine Pitroua4d58d22011-07-08 19:14:19 +0200842- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
843 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
844 is now skipped instead.
845
Ned Deily46268c42011-07-03 21:52:35 -0700846- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
847 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
848 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
849
Ned Deily63144c62011-06-28 00:39:19 -0700850- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that
851 test_build_ext of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when
852 run outside of a build directory.
853
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700854- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
855 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
856
Ned Deily64e59952011-06-27 23:09:31 -0700857- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
858 on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
859
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +0200860- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
861 iso2022_kr).
862
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +0200863Documentation
864-------------
865
Petri Lehtinena15a8d22012-03-01 21:28:00 +0200866- Issues #13491 and #13995: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation.
867 Initial patch for #13491 by Johannes Vogel.
Petri Lehtinen002b2022012-02-16 21:42:34 +0200868
Petri Lehtinenfe6f9d02012-02-02 21:11:28 +0200869- Issue #13402: Document absoluteness of sys.executable.
870
Brett Cannon64b2b6a2012-01-26 18:32:24 -0500871- Issue #13883: PYTHONCASEOK also works on OS X, OS/2, and RiscOS.
872
Meador Ingeda747c32012-01-19 00:17:44 -0600873- Issue #2134: The tokenize documentation has been clarified to explain why
874 all operator and delimiter tokens are treated as token.OP tokens.
875
Meador Inge52957182011-12-03 12:13:42 -0600876- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
877 io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
878
Nick Coghlan86711572011-10-24 22:19:40 +1000879- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
880 functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
881
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +0200882- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for SocketServer examples.
883
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200884
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000885What's New in Python 2.7.2?
886===========================
887
Benjamin Peterson9843ba52011-06-11 09:42:44 -0500888*Release date: 2011-06-11*
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -0500889
Benjamin Peterson43ee1a52011-06-10 11:32:52 -0500890Library
891-------
892
893- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
894
Benjamin Peterson4ba009d2011-05-31 18:59:49 -0500895Extension Modules
896-----------------
897
898- Issue #1221: Make pyexpat.__version__ equal to the Python version.
899
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -0500900
901What's New in Python 2.7.2 release candidate 1?
902===============================================
903
Benjamin Petersoncd207052011-05-29 16:50:27 -0500904*Release date: 2011-05-29*
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000905
906Core and Builtins
907-----------------
908
Ned Deily482f9082011-05-28 00:11:54 -0700909- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
910 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
911 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
912 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
913
Benjamin Petersonef1122c2011-06-03 16:17:22 -0500914- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. This allows old-style classes to have
915 __dir__. It also causes errors besides AttributeError found on lookup to be
916 propagated.
Benjamin Peterson8de87a62011-05-23 16:11:05 -0500917
Victor Stinner2c585f62011-05-10 00:22:59 +0200918- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
919 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
920
Victor Stinner0a92d182011-05-03 15:09:24 +0200921- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
922 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
923 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
924
Victor Stinner645b9f62011-05-03 15:06:11 +0200925- Issue #8651: Fix "z#" format of PyArg_Parse*() function: the size was not
926 written if PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
927
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +0200928- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
929 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
930 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner97cf5852011-05-01 23:51:11 +0200931 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +0200932
Antoine Pitrou1f9eb152011-04-27 19:26:06 +0200933- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
934 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
935 by Charles-François Natali.
936
Ezio Melottie3685f62011-04-26 05:12:51 +0300937- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
938 accepted too.
939
Ezio Melottic283a852011-04-15 16:14:04 +0300940- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
941 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
942 chars (e.g. u"\U00012345"[0]).
943
Victor Stinner5de51ac2011-04-09 16:09:08 +0200944- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
945 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
946 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
947
Mark Dickinson874d59e2011-03-26 12:18:00 +0000948- Issue #11144: Ensure that int(a_float) returns an int whenever possible.
949 Previously, there were some corner cases where a long was returned even
950 though the result was within the range of an int.
951
Antoine Pitrou2ddaaff2011-03-09 12:54:00 +0100952- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
953 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
954
Antoine Pitrou3013b162011-01-18 19:06:19 +0000955- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
956 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
957
Benjamin Peterson9b911ca2011-01-12 15:49:47 +0000958- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
959 class.
960
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +0000961- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
962 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
963 Patch by Matt Bandy.
964
Raymond Hettinger57a86892011-01-25 21:43:29 +0000965- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
966
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcac514c82011-01-03 00:50:57 +0000967- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
968 can now handle dates after 2038.
969
R. David Murray64a1e7c2010-12-15 01:36:03 +0000970- Issue #4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly
971 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
972 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
973
Jesus Cea44e81682011-04-20 16:39:15 +0200974- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
975 Patch by Torsten Becker.
976
Benjamin Peterson07f54512010-12-11 04:25:57 +0000977- Issue #10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
978
Mark Dickinsonecf8ec62010-12-04 12:30:41 +0000979- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
980 float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be
981 0.0, not -0.0.
982
Eli Bendersky680e6eb2011-03-04 06:14:56 +0000983- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
984 empty, instead of OverflowError.
985
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000986Library
987-------
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +0000988
Ned Deilyd8b17232011-07-26 18:16:08 -0700989- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
990 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
991
Benjamin Peterson4fa68ab2011-05-26 09:56:41 -0500992- Issue #12161: Cause StringIO.getvalue() to raise a ValueError when used on a
993 closed StringIO instance.
994
Victor Stinnerdbfba162011-05-26 13:37:25 +0200995- Issue #12182: Fix pydoc.HTMLDoc.multicolumn() if Python uses the new (true)
996 division (python -Qnew). Patch written by Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve.
997
Victor Stinnerdaf17e92011-05-25 22:52:37 +0200998- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
999
Victor Stinner5100a402011-05-25 22:15:36 +02001000- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
1001 if the file is closed.
1002
Charles-François Natalib94e0cd2011-05-24 23:10:54 +02001003- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, use makefile() to wrap the SSL socket to avoid
1004 heap fragmentation and MemoryError with some malloc implementations.
1005
Victor Stinner40b41e12011-05-24 22:29:13 +02001006- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
1007 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
1008 final argument is True.
1009
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02001010- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
1011 to be able to unload the module.
1012
Ronald Oussorenb13cacf2011-05-17 15:13:46 +02001013- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
1014 with Tk 8.5.
1015
Ronald Oussoren372954e2011-05-17 13:22:30 +02001016- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
1017 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
1018
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02001019- Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is
Ronald Oussoren53b6a5f2011-05-15 16:51:10 +02001020 set in shell.
1021
Nadeem Vawda0cc4fd92011-05-14 14:29:07 +02001022- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
1023 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
1024
Antoine Pitrouee46a7b2011-05-13 00:31:52 +02001025- Issue #12062: In the `io` module, fix a flushing bug when doing a certain
1026 type of I/O sequence on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading,
1027 seeking a bit forward, writing, then seeking before the previous write but
1028 still within buffered data, and writing again).
1029
Antoine Pitrou47d1d0d2011-05-10 19:16:03 +02001030- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
1031 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
1032
Victor Stinnerb1241f92011-05-10 01:52:03 +02001033- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
1034
Martin v. Löwis591c2df2011-05-09 08:19:13 +02001035- Issue #11164: Remove obsolete allnodes test from minidom test.
1036
Antoine Pitrou21ce8f02011-05-07 19:59:33 +02001037- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
1038 by Kasun Herath.
1039
R David Murray8b26c4b2011-05-06 21:56:22 -04001040- Issue 11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
1041 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
1042 previous value of the mtime.
1043
Ronald Oussoren58d6b1b2011-05-06 11:31:33 +02001044- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
1045 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
1046 for the case.
1047
Ezio Melottidf8a8f72011-05-04 14:40:53 +03001048- Issue #11982: fix json.loads('""') to return u'' rather than ''.
1049
Victor Stinner112d48a2011-05-03 14:36:36 +02001050- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
1051 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
1052
Senthil Kumaran011525e2011-04-28 15:30:31 +08001053- Issue #10761: Fix tarfile.extractall failure when symlinked files are
1054 present. Initial patch by Scott Leerssen.
1055
Ezio Melotti34b32d62011-04-27 09:45:46 +03001056- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
1057 strings are too long.
1058
Senthil Kumaran5dc68682011-04-26 21:17:45 +08001059- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
1060
Victor Stinner33feeab2011-04-18 16:33:28 +02001061- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
1062 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
1063 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
1064
Raymond Hettingere0156c42011-04-19 09:48:39 -07001065- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
1066 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
1067
Martin v. Löwis2d253dd2011-04-17 22:29:40 +02001068- Issue #11442: Add a charset parameter to the Content-type in SimpleHTTPServer
1069 to avoid XSS attacks.
1070
Senthil Kumaranddaea1c2011-04-15 18:07:33 +08001071- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
1072 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1073
Raymond Hettinger37c0fe52011-04-15 13:12:21 -07001074- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
1075
Senthil Kumarana99b7612011-04-14 12:54:35 +08001076- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
1077 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1078
Ezio Melotti2b96f092011-04-13 05:37:29 +03001079- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
1080 _json is not available.
1081
1082- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran0531d6f2011-04-13 09:47:20 +08001083 url contains #fragment.
1084
R David Murrayea8b6ef2011-04-12 21:00:26 -04001085- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
1086 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
1087
brian.curtin16f98b72011-04-11 18:05:33 -05001088- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
1089 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
1090
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03001091- Issue #4877: Fix a segfault in xml.parsers.expat while attempting to parse
1092 a closed file.
1093
Raymond Hettingere4579c32011-04-11 17:27:42 -07001094- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
1095 It was causing a failed import in the Turkish locale where the locale
1096 sensitive str.upper() method caused a name mismatch.
1097
Antoine Pitrou7dfc8742011-04-11 00:26:42 +02001098- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
1099 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
1100 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1101
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03001102- Issue #7311: Fix HTMLParser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
Ezio Melotti9f1ffb22011-04-05 20:40:52 +03001103
Ross Lagerwall104c3f12011-04-05 15:24:34 +02001104- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
1105
guido@google.com2bc23b82011-03-24 10:44:17 -07001106- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
guido@google.comdb3080e2011-03-28 13:53:40 -07001107 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001108
Benjamin Peterson77d46602011-03-28 17:32:31 -05001109- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
1110 arguments.
1111
Martin v. Löwis03f7e232011-03-27 20:58:52 +02001112- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
1113
Mark Dickinsond687be02011-03-27 16:15:24 +01001114- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
1115 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
1116
Mark Dickinson1829e8f2011-03-27 15:32:05 +01001117- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
1118 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
1119 documentation.
1120
Martin v. Löwis49b0ce02011-03-27 10:10:46 +02001121- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi.
1122
Raymond Hettinger9aa5a342011-03-25 16:00:13 -07001123- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
1124 that start with a leading underscore.
1125
Mark Dickinsonf9e9a6f2011-03-25 22:01:06 +00001126- Issue #11673: Fix multiprocessing Array and RawArray constructors to accept a
1127 size of type 'long', rather than only accepting 'int'.
1128
Éric Araujo374274d2011-03-19 04:29:36 +01001129- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
1130 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
1131
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04001132- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
1133 setup and teardown.
1134
Ronald Oussoren2ab59942011-03-16 09:47:15 -04001135- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
1136 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
1137 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
1138
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04001139- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
1140 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussoren1aa999c2011-03-14 18:53:59 -04001141
Mark Dickinson2c8c62e2011-03-12 11:05:32 +00001142- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when
1143 the context rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
1144
Ned Deily9d4836e2011-03-09 02:31:55 -08001145- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
1146 initialization fails.
1147
Antoine Pitroud6f3a3e2011-03-06 02:03:34 +01001148- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
1149 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
1150 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1151
R. David Murray1a337902011-03-03 18:17:40 +00001152- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
1153 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
1154 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
1155
Giampaolo Rodolàd65224f2011-03-03 14:17:51 +00001156- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
1157 on accept(), send() and recv().
1158
Antoine Pitroud3f6ea12011-02-26 23:35:27 +00001159- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
1160 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
1161
Antoine Pitrou6439c002011-02-25 21:35:47 +00001162- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
1163 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
1164
Georg Brandl28046022011-02-25 11:01:04 +00001165- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
1166 argparse.
1167
Antoine Pitrouf4d2b3d2011-02-21 23:59:20 +00001168- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
1169 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
1170 32-bit Windows.
1171
Georg Brandl52f83952011-02-25 10:39:23 +00001172- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
1173 membership of non-weakrefable objects.
1174
1175- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
1176
1177- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
1178
Barry Warsaw42bb7ca2011-02-14 20:04:00 +00001179- Issue #11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix !=
1180 --exec-prefix, which caused Python to not start.
1181
R. David Murray008c0442011-02-11 23:03:13 +00001182- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
1183 a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
1184
Antoine Pitrou820021e2011-01-31 21:47:45 +00001185- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
1186 Patch by Stan Mihai.
1187
Ned Deily60651532011-01-31 00:52:49 +00001188- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
1189 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
1190 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
1191
Ned Deily2a6f4b32011-01-30 00:18:47 +00001192- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
1193 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
1194 64-/32-bit installer variant.
1195
Ned Deilyefc527a2011-01-29 19:30:39 +00001196- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
1197 commands.
1198
Vinay Sajipcdb83882011-01-21 23:35:57 +00001199- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
1200
Antoine Pitrou8a0eede2011-01-20 21:20:18 +00001201- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
1202 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1203
Antoine Pitrou63a3f152011-01-19 15:27:24 +00001204- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
1205 a symbol named FSTAT.
1206
Ned Deily4a705502011-01-18 04:33:22 +00001207- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
1208 Cocoa AquaTk.
1209
Antoine Pitrou9989d852011-01-15 16:18:57 +00001210- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
1211 length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
1212 is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1213
Terry Reedyf7dd7992011-01-10 22:15:19 +00001214- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
1215
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00001216- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime
1217 function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
1218 false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range
1219 accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
1220 dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
1221 by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
1222
Georg Brandl6adb9792011-01-09 07:53:14 +00001223- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
1224 node twice.
1225
Antoine Pitrou1f1613f2011-01-06 18:30:26 +00001226- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
1227 on an existing file.
1228
Antoine Pitrou77c1b382011-01-06 17:19:05 +00001229- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
1230 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
1231
Antoine Pitrou91ce0d92011-01-03 18:45:09 +00001232- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
1233 file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
1234 patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1235
Antoine Pitroub0614612011-01-02 20:04:52 +00001236- Issue #4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
1237 DeprecationWarning.
1238
Raymond Hettinger8ebebd82011-01-02 01:03:26 +00001239- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
1240
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001241- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
Senthil Kumaran559395f2010-12-29 06:30:19 +00001242 variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's
1243 request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
1244 params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
1245
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001246- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
Terry Reedy0df73672010-12-28 19:53:32 +00001247
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001248- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murray08fc7012010-12-28 19:11:03 +00001249 browsers actually parse cookies.
1250
R. David Murray5360d002010-12-27 19:17:17 +00001251- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
1252 email.header.Header.encode.
1253
R. David Murray5874ed62010-12-26 22:29:53 +00001254- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
1255 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
1256 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
1257
Antoine Pitroufc9ead62010-12-21 21:26:55 +00001258- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
1259
Daniel Stutzbach57cf0af2011-01-04 18:47:17 +00001260- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
Michael Foorde6e0e262010-12-19 15:52:56 +00001261 about input.
1262
Michael Foorda17f0762010-12-19 14:53:19 +00001263- Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
1264
Antoine Pitroud7b6ac62010-12-18 18:18:21 +00001265- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
1266 to avoid denial of services from the other party.
1267
R. David Murray3f752ab2010-12-18 17:22:18 +00001268- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
1269
1270- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray7a697252010-12-18 03:52:09 +00001271 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
1272
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001273- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
1274 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
1275
Senthil Kumaran5c7fd6e2010-12-17 04:56:02 +00001276- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
1277 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001278
Antoine Pitrou47d9b0e2010-12-16 17:11:34 +00001279- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
1280 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1281
Éric Araujoe04c13c2010-12-15 21:15:25 +00001282- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
1283
R. David Murraydacb8042010-12-14 14:34:16 +00001284- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
1285 causes debug mode to fail.
1286
Ronald Oussoren8ec374c2010-12-07 16:02:59 +00001287- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
1288
Ronald Oussoren517858a2010-12-07 16:13:17 +00001289- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
1290 platforms).
1291
Antoine Pitrou4cb64ad2010-12-03 19:31:52 +00001292- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
1293 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
1294 current process.
1295
Éric Araujofb3de6b2010-12-03 19:24:49 +00001296- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
1297
R. David Murrayd75cc912010-12-02 03:16:23 +00001298- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
1299
Gregory P. Smith312efbc2010-12-14 15:02:53 +00001300- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
1301 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
1302 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
1303
Steven Bethardf8583ac2011-01-24 20:40:15 +00001304- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
1305 argparse.FileType.
1306
Steven Bethard3f69a052011-03-26 19:59:02 +01001307- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
1308
1309- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
1310
Steven Bethard5e0062d2011-03-26 21:50:38 +01001311- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
1312 their children.
1313
Steven Bethardbc3b1042011-03-27 13:57:55 +02001314- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
1315
Steven Betharde3c11b42011-04-04 01:47:52 +02001316- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
1317
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00001318Extension Modules
1319-----------------
1320
Benjamin Peterson6116d4a2011-05-17 18:31:20 -05001321- Stop using the old interface for providing methods and attributes in the _sre
1322 module. Among other things, this gives these classes ``__class__``
1323 attributes. (See #12099)
1324
Ezio Melotti0639be62011-05-07 19:21:22 +03001325- Issue #10169: Fix argument parsing in socket.sendto() to avoid error masking.
1326
Ezio Melottic1ec7b52011-05-11 00:55:35 +03001327- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
1328 objects using the C accelerations.
1329
Ezio Melotticec46492011-05-07 17:40:23 +03001330- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
1331 objects using the C accelerations.
1332
Benjamin Petersonf21ad922011-03-26 17:56:28 -05001333- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
1334 to an instance of the class.
1335
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00001336- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
1337
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00001338Build
1339-----
1340
Ned Deily22f63b52011-05-28 05:56:14 -07001341- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
1342 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
1343 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
1344
Thomas Wouters5edae7e2011-03-06 11:48:05 -08001345- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
1346
Georg Brandl94800df2011-02-25 11:09:02 +00001347- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
1348
1349- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
1350
Georg Brandl71f4fbb2011-02-25 11:04:50 +00001351- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
1352
Ned Deilye6cc7d62011-02-21 21:00:09 +00001353- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
1354 package had previously been installed.
1355
Ned Deily68adfdc2011-02-07 16:52:25 +00001356- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac
1357 OS X installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
1358
Ned Deily53c460d2011-01-30 01:43:40 +00001359- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
1360 the system-provided Python.
1361
1362- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X
1363 32-bit installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
1364 (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
1365 support enabled).
1366
Antoine Pitrou9828b562011-01-03 19:11:32 +00001367- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
1368
Antoine Pitrou31e85952011-01-03 18:57:14 +00001369- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
1370 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
1371
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00001372- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
1373 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
1374
David Malcolm4c29e1c2011-01-06 17:39:24 +00001375- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
1376 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
1377 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
1378 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
1379
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04001380- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
1381 using GCC 4.0.
1382
Raymond Hettinger179816d2011-04-12 18:54:46 -07001383IDLE
1384----
1385
1386- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
1387 file in a package.
1388
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00001389Tests
1390-----
1391
Ned Deilyc4f97f42011-05-29 02:36:17 -07001392- Issue #12205: Fix test_subprocess failure due to uninstalled test data.
1393
Ezio Melottie3992eb2011-05-14 06:24:53 +03001394- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
1395
Ezio Melotti5c5d7e22011-05-09 06:54:53 +03001396- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
1397
Nadeem Vawdabafc6a92011-04-19 01:35:58 +02001398- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
1399
Ross Lagerwallfe2f1ad2011-04-09 20:39:50 +02001400- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
1401 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1402
Ned Deily5f511822011-04-05 17:16:09 -07001403- Issue #7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@'
1404 or '.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
1405
R David Murraycdd5fc92011-03-13 22:37:18 -04001406- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
1407 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
1408
Antoine Pitrou8bc59fa2011-01-12 18:56:09 +00001409- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
1410 by Ross Lagerwall.
1411
Antoine Pitrou8c688be2011-01-03 20:49:01 +00001412- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
1413 in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
1414 explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
1415
R. David Murrayf8a63912010-12-14 16:26:30 +00001416- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
1417 encountering them.
1418
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00001419- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
1420 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
1421
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001422
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001423What's New in Python 2.7.1?
1424===========================
1425
Benjamin Peterson3e0fa422010-11-27 14:40:29 +00001426*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001427
1428Library
1429-------
1430
Éric Araujo54274ad2011-02-03 00:12:18 +00001431- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
1432
1433- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
1434
Raymond Hettinger061bf7a2010-11-30 03:15:35 +00001435- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
1436 inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
1437 iterator was undefined.
1438
Alexander Belopolsky1fea5c42010-11-30 01:18:17 +00001439- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
1440 ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
1441
Georg Brandl79f096a2010-11-26 07:57:57 +00001442- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
1443
Martin v. Löwise03c7782010-11-22 10:53:46 +00001444- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
1445
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00001446- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
1447
Senthil Kumaran9a5897b2010-11-29 12:41:03 +00001448- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
1449
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00001450- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
1451 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
1452
Georg Brandl86e0c892010-11-26 07:22:28 +00001453- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
1454 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
1455 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
1456
Senthil Kumaran0b7cac12010-11-22 05:04:33 +00001457- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
1458 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
1459
Brian Curtin2d011ed2010-11-21 23:50:51 +00001460- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
1461 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
1462
Éric Araujo4fadd532010-11-20 20:02:41 +00001463- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
1464
Georg Brandl839c1132010-11-20 11:29:38 +00001465- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
1466 is called without data.
1467
Benjamin Peterson4fec9ce2010-11-20 17:31:08 +00001468- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
1469 end of the file.
1470
Senthil Kumaran501bfd82010-11-14 03:31:52 +00001471- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
1472
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00001473Build
1474-----
1475
Brian Curtin69a106a2010-11-22 02:08:49 +00001476- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
1477
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00001478- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
1479
Ezio Melotti2623a372010-11-21 13:34:58 +00001480Tests
1481-----
1482
1483- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
1484
Ezio Melottibf8484e2010-11-24 21:54:47 +00001485Documentation
1486-------------
1487
1488- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
1489
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001490
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00001491What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
1492===============================================
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001493
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00001494*Release date: 2010-11-13*
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001495
1496Core and Builtins
1497-----------------
1498
Raymond Hettinger2ad17e12010-10-30 08:17:46 +00001499- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
1500 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
1501
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001502- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
1503 ``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +00001504
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001505- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
1506 length of the offending line.
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +00001507
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +00001508- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
1509 resolution.
1510
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +00001511- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
1512 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
1513
Jesus Cea33c722b2010-11-04 21:39:52 +00001514- Issue #9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
1515 warning.
1516
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +00001517- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
1518 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
1519
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +00001520- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
1521 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
1522 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
1523 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
1524
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +00001525- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
1526
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +00001527- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
1528 thread-local storage key.
1529
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00001530- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
1531 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
1532 the same behaviour than the print statement.
1533
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +00001534- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
1535 a memoryview object.
1536
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +00001537- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
1538
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +00001539- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
1540
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00001541- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
1542 of an array.
1543
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +00001544- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
1545
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +00001546- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
1547 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
1548
1549 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
1550 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
1551
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +00001552- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
1553 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001554
1555Library
1556-------
1557
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001558- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00001559
Antoine Pitrou7eaa4482010-11-09 23:15:18 +00001560- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
1561 Lorenzo M. Catucci.
1562
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00001563- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
1564 --enable-shared.
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00001565
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00001566- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
1567
1568- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
1569
1570- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
1571 not in build_clib.
1572
Éric Araujoe9954b52010-11-06 04:53:42 +00001573- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
1574 Arfrever.
1575
Éric Araujoe28665a2010-11-06 04:36:28 +00001576- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
1577
Éric Araujod1feff72010-11-06 04:06:18 +00001578- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
1579 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
1580
Antoine Pitrou6b1167c2010-11-05 19:55:02 +00001581- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
1582 its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1583
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001584- Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
1585 from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
Michael Foorde5dc24e2010-11-01 22:11:53 +00001586
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001587- Issue #120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
1588
1589- Issue #6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
1590 EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
1591 instead.
Giampaolo Rodolà19e9fef2010-11-01 15:07:14 +00001592
Antoine Pitrou61d14b72010-10-31 16:17:36 +00001593- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
1594 as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1595
Antoine Pitrou3917c092010-10-31 13:12:48 +00001596- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
1597 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1598
Antoine Pitrou594a0462010-10-31 13:05:48 +00001599- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
1600 for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1601
Raymond Hettingercbba8d42010-10-30 07:29:44 +00001602- Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
1603
Antoine Pitrou638cee62010-10-28 14:50:57 +00001604- Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file
1605 object with custom buffering from two threads at once.
1606
Antoine Pitrou7f081022010-10-27 18:43:21 +00001607- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
1608 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
1609 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
1610
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +00001611- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
1612 initialization.
1613
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +00001614- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
1615 ntpath.relpath().
1616
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001617- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +00001618 debugging in doctests.
1619
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001620- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
1621 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
1622
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +00001623- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
1624 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
1625
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +00001626- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
1627
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +00001628- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
1629
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +00001630- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
1631 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
1632
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +00001633- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
1634 gettext.
1635
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +00001636- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
1637 gname field.
1638
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +00001639- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
1640 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
1641
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +00001642- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
1643 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
1644
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +00001645- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
1646 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
1647 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
1648 with a timeout.
1649
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +00001650- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
1651
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +00001652- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
1653
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +00001654- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
1655
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +00001656- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
1657
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +00001658- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
1659 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
1660
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +00001661- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
1662 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
1663 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
1664 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
1665 by Andrew Bennetts.
1666
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +00001667- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
1668 values: d['x'] = d.
1669
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +00001670- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +00001671
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +00001672- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
1673 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
1674
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +00001675- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
1676 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
1677 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
1678 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
1679 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
1680 to zero.
1681
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00001682- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001683 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00001684 value.
1685
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +00001686- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
1687 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
1688 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
1689 original error is re-raised.
1690
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +00001691- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
1692 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
1693 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
1694
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +00001695- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
1696 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
1697
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +00001698- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
1699 ConfigParser.write.
1700
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +00001701- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
1702 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
1703
Terry Reedyd2d2ae92010-11-11 23:22:19 +00001704- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
1705 can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
1706 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
1707
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +00001708- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
1709 falling into recursion.
1710
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +00001711- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
1712 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
1713
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +00001714- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
1715 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
1716
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00001717- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +00001718 error handling when accepting a new connection.
1719
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +00001720- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
1721 errors.
1722
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +00001723- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
1724
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +00001725- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
1726 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
1727
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +00001728- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
1729 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
1730
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00001731- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
1732 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
1733
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +00001734- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
1735 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
1736 overridden to provide ordered views.
1737
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +00001738- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
1739 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
1740 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
1741
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +00001742- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
1743 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
1744 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
1745
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +00001746- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
1747 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
1748 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
1749 patch by Jason V. Miller.
1750
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +00001751- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
1752 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
1753
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +00001754- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
1755 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
1756
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +00001757- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
1758 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
1759 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
1760
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +00001761- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
1762 current node.
1763
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +00001764- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
1765
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +00001766- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
1767 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
1768
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +00001769- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
1770 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
1771 behavior was wrong.
1772
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +00001773- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
1774
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +00001775- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
1776 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
1777
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +00001778- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
1779 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
1780 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
1781
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00001782- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
1783
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00001784- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
1785 the command line.
1786
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +00001787- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
1788 interactive browser.
1789
1790- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
1791 regular expressions.
1792
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +00001793- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
1794 data generated with the profile module.
1795
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +00001796- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
1797 entries, consider the first one.
1798
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +00001799- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
1800 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
1801
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +00001802- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
1803 in the top-level debugged frame.
1804
1805- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
1806 in doctests.
1807
1808- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
1809 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
1810
1811- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
1812 been reassigned.
1813
1814- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
1815 a breakpoint command.
1816
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +00001817- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
1818 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
1819
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +00001820- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
1821 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
1822
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +00001823- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
1824
1825- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
1826 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
1827
1828- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
1829 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
1830
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +00001831- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
1832
1833- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
1834
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +00001835- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
1836 across devices.
1837
1838- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
1839
1840- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
1841
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +00001842- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
1843 string when Unicode was previously output.
1844
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +00001845- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
1846 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
1847
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +00001848- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
1849 utf-16 incremental encoders.
1850
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +00001851- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
1852
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +00001853- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
1854 parameters.
1855
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +00001856- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
1857 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
1858 XML-RPC request.
1859
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +00001860- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
1861
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +00001862- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
1863 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
1864 options).
1865
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +00001866- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
1867
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +00001868- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
1869 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
1870 (Jan Hosang).
1871
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +00001872- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
1873
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +00001874- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
1875 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
1876 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
1877
1878- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
1879 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
1880 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
1881
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +00001882- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
1883 strings in add_option calls.
1884
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +00001885- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
1886
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +00001887- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001888
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +00001889- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
1890
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00001891- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
1892 for tracing methods.
1893
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001894Extension Modules
1895-----------------
1896
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +00001897- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
1898 with expat version 2.0.1.
1899
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00001900- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001901 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00001902
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +00001903- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
1904 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
1905
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +00001906- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
1907 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
1908
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00001909- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
1910 interpreter by default.
1911
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +00001912- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
1913 to prevent crashes.
1914
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +00001915- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
1916 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
1917 2**31 elements.
1918
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +00001919- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
1920
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +00001921- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
1922 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
1923
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +00001924- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
1925 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
1926
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +00001927- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
1928
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +00001929- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
1930
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +00001931- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
1932
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +00001933- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
1934 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
1935 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
1936 returns the same information as the id command.
1937
1938 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
1939
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +00001940- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
1941 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
1942 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
1943 char is unsigned.
1944
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +00001945- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
1946
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04001947
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00001948Tools/Demos
1949-----------
1950
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +00001951- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
1952
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00001953- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
1954 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
1955 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
1956
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00001957Build
1958-----
1959
Antoine Pitroue0c5f3c2010-10-27 20:35:26 +00001960- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
1961
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +00001962- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
1963 Akira Kitada.
1964
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +00001965- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
1966
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +00001967- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
1968
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +00001969- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
1970 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
1971
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +00001972- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
1973 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
1974
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +00001975- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
1976 Sablé.
1977
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +00001978- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
1979 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
1980 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +00001981
1982- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
1983 Sébastien Sablé.
1984
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00001985- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
1986
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001987- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
1988 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +00001989
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001990- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
1991 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
1992 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +00001993
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00001994- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
1995 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
1996 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
1997
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +00001998- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
1999 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00002000
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00002001Tests
2002-----
2003
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +00002004- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
2005 in test_os)
2006
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +00002007- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
2008
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002009- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
2010 case when running profile or trace, for example.
2011
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00002012- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002013
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +00002014- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
2015
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +00002016- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
2017
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00002018- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
2019
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +00002020- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
2021
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +00002022- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
2023 Michele Orrù.
2024
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00002025- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
2026
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +00002027- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
2028
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00002029Documentation
2030-------------
2031
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +00002032- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
2033 to Doc/license.rst.
2034
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +00002035- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
2036 with os.kill.
2037
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002038- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
2039 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +00002040
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002041- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00002042
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002043
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002044What's New in Python 2.7?
2045=========================
2046
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +00002047*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002048
2049Core and Builtins
2050-----------------
2051
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +00002052- Prevent assignment to set literals.
2053
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002054Library
2055-------
2056
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +00002057- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
2058 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
2059
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +00002060- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
2061
2062Extension Modules
2063-----------------
2064
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +00002065- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
2066 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00002067
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +00002068- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
2069 on an OpenSSL structure.
2070
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +00002071
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00002072What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
2073=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002074
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +00002075*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002076
2077Core and Builtins
2078-----------------
2079
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +00002080- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
2081
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +00002082- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
2083 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
2084 See tracker issue for details.
2085
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +00002086- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
2087 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
2088 (higher than 0x10000).
2089
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +00002090- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
2091 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +00002092
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +00002093Build
2094-----
2095
2096- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
2097
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002098Library
2099-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00002100
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00002101- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +00002102 raises an exception.
2103
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +00002104- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
2105 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
2106 and after calling foreign functions.
2107
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +00002108- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
2109 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
2110
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00002111- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
2112 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
2113
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +00002114- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002115
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00002116- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
2117 now honored in unittest debug methods.
2118
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +00002119Documentation
2120-------------
2121
2122- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
2123 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
2124
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002125Misc
2126----
2127
2128- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
2129
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002130
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +00002131What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
2132=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002133
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +00002134*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002135
2136Core and Builtins
2137-----------------
2138
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +00002139- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
2140 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
2141 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
2142 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
2143 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
2144 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
2145 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
2146
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00002147- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +00002148 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
2149 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
2150 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
2151 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00002152
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +00002153- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
2154 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
2155 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
2156 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
2157 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
2158 in sets or dicts.
2159
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +00002160- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
2161 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
2162 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
2163
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +00002164- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
2165 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
2166
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002167- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
2168 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +00002169
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002170- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
2171 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +00002172
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002173- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +00002174 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
2175
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00002176C-API
2177-----
2178
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002179- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
2180 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
2181 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00002182 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
2183
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002184Library
2185-------
2186
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +00002187- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
2188 reported as a skip rather than an error.
2189
2190- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
2191 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
2192 reports.
2193
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +00002194- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
2195
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +00002196- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
2197 accepted by the codecs module.
2198
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +00002199- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
2200
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +00002201- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
2202 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
2203
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +00002204- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
2205 mistake.
2206
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +00002207- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
2208 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
2209
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +00002210- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
2211 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
2212
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +00002213- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
2214 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +00002215
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +00002216- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
2217
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +00002218- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
2219
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +00002220- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
2221 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
2222 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +00002223
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00002224- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002225 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00002226
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +00002227- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
2228 of files without one.
2229
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002230- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +00002231 comparing to a non-mapping.
2232
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002233- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +00002234
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002235- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
2236 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +00002237
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +00002238- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
2239
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002240- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
2241 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
2242 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +00002243
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00002244Extension Modules
2245-----------------
2246
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +00002247- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
2248 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
2249 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
2250
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +00002251- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
2252 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
2253
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00002254- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002255 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002256
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002257Tests
2258-----
2259
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +00002260- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
2261 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
2262
2263- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +00002264 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
2265
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +00002266- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
2267
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002268- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
2269 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
2270 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002271
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +00002272Build
2273-----
2274
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +00002275- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
2276 releases.
2277
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002278- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +00002279 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002280
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +00002281Tools/Demos
2282-----------
2283
2284- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
2285
2286
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002287What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
2288================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002289
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +00002290*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002291
2292Core and Builtins
2293-----------------
2294
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002295- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +00002296
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002297- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
2298 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
2299 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
2300 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
2301 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +00002302
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002303- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
2304 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +00002305
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +00002306- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
2307
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00002308- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002309 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00002310 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
2311 Charles-François Natali.
2312
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +00002313- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
2314 passed to bytearray.
2315
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002316- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +00002317
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002318- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +00002319
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002320- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
2321 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
2322 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +00002323
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002324Library
2325-------
2326
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002327- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
2328 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +00002329
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002330- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
2331 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +00002332
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002333- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00002334
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002335- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
2336 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
2337 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
2338 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00002339
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002340- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
2341 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +00002342
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +00002343- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
2344
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002345- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
2346 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +00002347
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002348- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
2349 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +00002350
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002351- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
2352 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
2353 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
2354 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
2355 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +00002356
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00002357- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002358 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
2359 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00002360
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +00002361- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
2362
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00002363- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
2364 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
2365
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002366- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
2367 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +00002368
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002369- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
2370 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +00002371
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002372- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +00002373 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
2374 "Include".
2375
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002376- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
2377 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +00002378
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002379- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
2380 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +00002381
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002382- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
2383 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +00002384
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002385- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
2386 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
2387 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +00002388
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002389- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
2390 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +00002391
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002392- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +00002393
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002394- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
2395 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +00002396
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002397- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +00002398
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002399- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
2400 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
2401 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
2402 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +00002403
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +00002404- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
2405 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
2406
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002407- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
2408 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +00002409
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +00002410- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
2411
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002412- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
2413 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +00002414
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002415- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
2416 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +00002417
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002418- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
2419 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
2420 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +00002421
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002422- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
2423 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002424 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
2425 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
2426
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002427- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
2428 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
2429 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +00002430
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +00002431- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
2432
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002433- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
2434 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +00002435
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002436- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +00002437
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002438- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
2439 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +00002440
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002441- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
2442 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +00002443
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +00002444- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
2445
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +00002446- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
2447 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
2448
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002449- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +00002450 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
2451
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00002452- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002453 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
2454 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00002455
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00002456- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002457 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
2458 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00002459
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +00002460- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
2461
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002462- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
2463 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002464
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00002465Extension Modules
2466-----------------
2467
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002468- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +00002469
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +00002470- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
2471
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00002472- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
2473
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002474- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
2475 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +00002476
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002477Tests
2478-----
2479
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002480- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
2481 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
2482 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +00002483
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002484- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
2485 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +00002486
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +00002487- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
2488 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
2489
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002490- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
2491 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +00002492
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002493- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
2494 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002495
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00002496Build
2497-----
2498
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002499- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +00002500 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
2501 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
2502 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
2503
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00002504- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
2505
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002506- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
2507 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +00002508
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002509- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +00002510
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +00002511Misc
2512----
2513
2514- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
2515
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002516
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002517What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
2518================================
2519
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +00002520*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002521
2522Core and Builtins
2523-----------------
2524
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +00002525- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
2526
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +00002527- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
2528 changed.
2529
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002530- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +00002531 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
2532 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
2533
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +00002534- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
2535
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002536- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +00002537
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +00002538- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
2539
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002540- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
2541 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
2542 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
2543 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
Antoine Pitrou01a196a2011-01-02 20:05:11 +00002544 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002545 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +00002546
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +00002547- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
2548 references.
2549
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002550- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
2551 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00002552
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00002553- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00002554
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00002555- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
2556 arguments to a function correct.
2557
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00002558- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
2559
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00002560- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002561 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
2562 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00002563 module.
2564
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00002565- Code objects now support weak references.
2566
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002567Library
2568-------
2569
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00002570- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
2571
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00002572- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002573 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
2574 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00002575
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00002576- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
2577
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002578- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
2579 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00002580
2581 >>> Decimal(1.1)
2582 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
2583
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00002584- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
2585
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002586- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
2587 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00002588
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002589- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
2590 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00002591
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002592- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
2593 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00002594
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002595- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
2596 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
2597 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
2598 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00002599
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002600- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
2601 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
2602 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
2603 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00002604
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00002605- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002606 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
2607 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
2608 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00002609
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002610- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
2611 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00002612
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00002613- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
2614 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002615 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00002616
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002617- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
2618 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
2619 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
2620 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00002621
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00002622- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
2623
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00002624- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
2625
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00002626- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
2627 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
2628
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00002629- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
2630
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00002631- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002632 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
2633 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00002634
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00002635- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
2636 deprecated.
2637
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002638- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
2639 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00002640
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002641- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
2642 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00002643
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002644- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
2645 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
2646 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00002647
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002648- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
2649 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00002650
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00002651- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
2652 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
2653 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00002654
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00002655- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
2656
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00002657- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
2658
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002659- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
2660 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
2661 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00002662
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00002663- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
2664 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
2665
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002666- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00002667
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002668- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
2669 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00002670
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002671- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
2672 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002673 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00002674
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00002675- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002676 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
2677 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
2678 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00002679
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002680- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00002681 cElementTree module is updated too.
2682
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00002683- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
2684
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002685- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00002686 classes.
2687
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002688- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
2689 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
2690 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
2691 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00002692
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00002693- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
2694 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
2695
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00002696- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
2697
2698- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
2699 during test runs.
2700
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00002701- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00002702 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
2703
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002704Extension Modules
2705-----------------
2706
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00002707- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
2708
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00002709- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
2710
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00002711- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002712 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
2713 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00002714
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00002715- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
2716
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00002717- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
2718
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00002719- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
2720 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
2721 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
2722 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
2723
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002724- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
2725 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
2726 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002727 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
2728 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
2729 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
2730 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002731
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002732- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
2733 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00002734
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00002735Tools/Demos
2736-----------
2737
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002738- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
2739 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
2740 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002741
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00002742- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
2743
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00002744Build
2745-----
2746
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002747- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
2748 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00002749
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002750- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
2751 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
2752 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00002753
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00002754- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
2755
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00002756- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
2757
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00002758- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
2759 assembly file.
2760
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00002761C-API
2762-----
2763
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00002764- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002765 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
2766 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00002767
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002768- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
2769 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
2770 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
2771 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00002772
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00002773Tests
2774-----
2775
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002776- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
2777 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00002778
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002779- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
2780
2781- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
2782
2783- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
2784
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00002785- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
2786
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00002787- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
2788
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00002789- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
2790 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
2791
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00002792- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
2793 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00002794
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002795- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
2796 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00002797
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00002798
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002799What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
2800=================================
2801
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00002802*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002803
2804Core and Builtins
2805-----------------
2806
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002807- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
2808 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00002809
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002810- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
2811 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00002812
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00002813- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002814 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00002815
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00002816- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002817 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
2818 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00002819
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002820- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
2821 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00002822
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002823- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00002824 Parser/myreadline.c.
2825
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00002826- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002827 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00002828
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002829- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
2830 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00002831
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002832Library
2833-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00002834
Senthil Kumaranc1d0ed22010-12-04 09:58:29 +00002835- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
2836 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
2837 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
2838
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00002839- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
2840 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002841
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00002842- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
2843
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002844- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00002845 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00002846
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002847- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00002848 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
2849
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002850- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
2851 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00002852
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00002853- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002854 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00002855
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00002856- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00002857
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002858- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
2859 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00002860
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002861- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00002862
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002863- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
2864 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00002865
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002866- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
2867 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00002868
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00002869- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
2870
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002871- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
2872 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
2873 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
2874 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00002875
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002876- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
2877 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002878
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00002879- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
2880 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
2881 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002882
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00002883- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00002884 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00002885
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002886- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00002887
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002888- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00002889
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002890- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00002891
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002892- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
2893 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00002894
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00002895- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002896 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00002897
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002898- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00002899
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00002900- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
2901
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00002902Extension Modules
2903-----------------
2904
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002905- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00002906 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
2907
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00002908- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
2909
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002910- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00002911 handling.
2912
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00002913- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
2914 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002915
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002916- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00002917 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
2918 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
2919
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002920- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
2921 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00002922
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002923Tests
2924-----
2925
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002926- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
2927 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
2928 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00002929
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00002930- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
2931 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
2932
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002933- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
2934 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00002935
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002936- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00002937 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00002938
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002939- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00002940 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
2941
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002942- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
2943 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
2944 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
2945 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002946
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00002947Build
2948-----
2949
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00002950- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00002951
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002952
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002953What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
2954=================================
2955
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00002956*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002957
2958Core and Builtins
2959-----------------
2960
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00002961- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
2962 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002963 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
2964 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00002965
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00002966- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002967 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00002968
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002969- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
2970 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00002971
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002972- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00002973
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002974- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
2975 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00002976
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002977- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
2978 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
2979 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
2980 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00002981
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002982- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
2983 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
2984 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
2985 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00002986
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00002987- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
2988 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
2989 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
2990
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002991- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
2992 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00002993
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002994 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
2995 strings,
2996 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
2997 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
2998 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
2999 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
3000
3001- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
3002 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00003003
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00003004- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
3005
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00003006- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
3007
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00003008- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
3009
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003010Library
3011-------
3012
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00003013- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
3014 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
3015
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00003016- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
3017 interpreter shutdown.
3018
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003019- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
3020 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
3021 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
3022 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00003023
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003024- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00003025
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003026- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00003027
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003028- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00003029
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00003030- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003031 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00003032 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
3033 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
3034
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00003035- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
3036
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00003037- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003038 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
3039 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00003040 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3041
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003042- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
3043 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
3044 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
3045 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
3046 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
3047 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00003048
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00003049- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
3050
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003051- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
3052 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00003053
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003054- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
3055 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00003056
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003057- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
3058 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
3059 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
3060 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00003061
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003062- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00003063 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
3064 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
3065
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003066- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00003067 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
3068
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003069- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
3070 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00003071
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003072- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
3073 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00003074
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003075- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
3076 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00003077
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003078- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
3079 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00003080
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00003081- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003082 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
3083 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00003084
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00003085Extension Modules
3086-----------------
3087
3088- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
3089 (CVE_2009_3560).
3090
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00003091Build
3092-----
3093
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003094- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
3095 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
3096 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00003097
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00003098- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
3099
3100- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
3101 MacOSX.
3102
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00003103- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
3104 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3105
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00003106Tools/Demos
3107-----------
3108
3109- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003110 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00003111 sandbox.
3112
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00003113Tests
3114-----
3115
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003116- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00003117 instead of a hard coded port.
3118
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00003119Documentation
3120-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00003121
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003122- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
3123 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00003124
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003125- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00003126 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
3127
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003128
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003129What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
3130=================================
3131
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00003132*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003133
3134Core and Builtins
3135-----------------
3136
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003137- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
3138 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00003139
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00003140- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
3141 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3142
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003143- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003144 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
3145 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
3146 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
3147 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
3148 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003149
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00003150- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
3151 AttributeError.
3152
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003153- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
3154 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00003155
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003156- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00003157
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00003158- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
3159 used to drop the time part of the result.
3160
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003161- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
3162 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
3163 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
3164 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00003165
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003166- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
3167 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
3168 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00003169
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003170- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00003171 executables on OSX.
3172
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003173 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
3174 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
3175 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00003176
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003177- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
3178 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00003179
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00003180- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
3181
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003182- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
3183 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00003184
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003185
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003186Library
3187-------
3188
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003189- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
3190 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
3191 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00003192
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003193- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
3194 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
3195 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00003196
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00003197- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003198 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
3199 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00003200 Xicluna.
3201
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003202- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
3203 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00003204
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003205- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
3206 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00003207
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003208- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
3209 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
3210 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00003211
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003212- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00003213 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
3214
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003215- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
3216 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00003217
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003218- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00003219 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
3220
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003221- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
3222 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00003223
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003224- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
3225 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00003226
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003227- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
3228 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
3229 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00003230
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003231- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
3232 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00003233
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00003234- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
3235 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
3236 the same as passing no argument.
3237
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003238- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
3239 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00003240
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003241- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00003242
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003243- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00003244
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003245- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
3246 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00003247
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003248- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
3249 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003250
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003251- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
3252 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00003253
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00003254C-API
3255-----
3256
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003257- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
3258 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00003259
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003260- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
3261 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
3262 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
3263 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
3264 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
3265 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
3266 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003267
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003268- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00003269
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00003270Build
3271-----
3272
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00003273- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
3274
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00003275- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003276 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00003277
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003278- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
3279 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
3280 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00003281
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00003282- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
3283 found.
3284
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00003285- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00003286
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003287- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
3288 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00003289
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003290Tests
3291-----
3292
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003293- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00003294 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
3295
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003296- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00003297
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003298- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
3299 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
3300
3301
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003302What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
3303================================
3304
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00003305*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003306
3307Core and Builtins
3308-----------------
3309
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003310- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
3311 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00003312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003313- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
3314 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
3315 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00003316
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003317- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
3318 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00003319
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003320- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
3321 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
3322 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00003323
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003324- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00003325
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003326- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00003327
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003328- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
3329 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00003330
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003331- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
3332 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
3333 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
3334 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
3335 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
3336 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003337
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003338- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
3339 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
3340 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
3341 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
3342 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
3343 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
3344 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003345
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003346 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
3347 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
3348 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
3349 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
3350 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
3351 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
3352 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
3353 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
3354 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
3355 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003356
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003357- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
3358 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
3359 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
3360 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
3361 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
3362 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
3363 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
3364 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00003365
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00003366- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
3367
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003368- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
3369 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00003370
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003371- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
3372 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00003373
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003374- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
3375 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00003376
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00003377- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
3378
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003379- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
3380 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
3381 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00003382
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003383- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
3384 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00003385
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003386- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
3387 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003388
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003389- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
3390 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00003391
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003392- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
3393 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
3394 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00003395
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003396- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
3397 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00003398
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00003399- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
3400 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
3401 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
3402 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
3403
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00003404- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
3405 assignment.
3406
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003407- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
3408 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00003409
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003410- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
3411 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00003412
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003413- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
3414 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00003415
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00003416- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00003417 take keyword arguments.
3418
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003419- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
3420 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00003421
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003422- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
3423 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00003424
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00003425- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
3426
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00003427- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
3428 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
3429
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00003430- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
3431
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003432- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00003433
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003434- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00003435 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
3436
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003437- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
3438 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00003439
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003440- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00003441
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003442- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00003443
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003444- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00003445 occurred in the argument chain.
3446
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00003447- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
3448
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003449- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
3450 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00003451
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003452- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00003453 separator and end should be unicode also.
3454
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003455- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
3456 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00003457
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003458- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
3459 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
3460 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00003461
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00003462- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
3463
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00003464- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
3465 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
3466
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00003467- Removed the ipaddr module.
3468
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00003469- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
3470 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
3471
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003472- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00003473
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00003474- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
3475 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
3476
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00003477- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
3478
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003479- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
3480 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00003481
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00003482- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003483 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00003484
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003485- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
3486 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00003487
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00003488- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003489 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00003490
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00003491- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
3492 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
3493
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003494- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
3495 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
3496 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00003497
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00003498- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
3499
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003500- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
3501 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00003502
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003503- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00003504
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00003505- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00003506
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003507 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
3508 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
3509 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00003510
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003511- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
3512 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
3513 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
3514 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
3515 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
3516 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
3517 complex.__format__ in the same way.
3518
3519- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
3520 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
3521 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00003522
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00003523- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003524 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00003525
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003526- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
3527 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00003528
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003529- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
3530 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00003531
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003532- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
3533 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00003534
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003535- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
3536 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00003537
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00003538- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
3539 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
3540
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00003541- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
3542
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003543- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
3544 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00003545
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003546- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
3547 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003549- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
3550 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003551
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003552- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
3553 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003554
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003555- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
3556 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00003557
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003558- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003559 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00003560
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003561- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
3562 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00003563
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00003564- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
3565
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003566- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00003567
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003568- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
3569 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00003570
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003571- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00003572
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00003573- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
3574 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
3575
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00003576- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
3577
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003578- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
3579 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00003580
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00003581- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003582 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
3583 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
3584 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00003585
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003586- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
3587 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
3588 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00003589
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003590- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
3591 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
3592 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
3593 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
3594 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00003595
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00003596- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
3597 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
3598
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003599- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
3600 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
3601 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00003602
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003603- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
3604 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00003605
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003606- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00003607 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
3608
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003609- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
3610 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00003611
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003612- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
3613 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00003614
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003615- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
3616 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00003617
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00003618- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
3619 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
3620
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003621- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
3622 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00003623
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00003624- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
3625
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00003626- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00003627 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
3628 zip(), and bytearray().
3629
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00003630- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
3631 functions.
3632
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00003633- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
3634 OSError.
3635
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00003636- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
3637
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003638- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
3639 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
3640 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00003641
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00003642- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
3643 __next__ method.
3644
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00003645- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
3646
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00003647- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
3648
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00003649- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
3650 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
3651 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00003652 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00003653 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
3654
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00003655- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
3656
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003657- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
3658 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
3659 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
3660 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
3661 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00003662
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003663- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00003664
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00003665- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
3666 file with `str' filename on Windows.
3667
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00003668- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
3669 did not get collected.
3670
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003671- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
3672 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00003673
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00003674- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
3675 directory on POSIX systems.
3676
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00003677- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
3678 systems.
3679
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00003680- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003681 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00003682
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00003683- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
3684 fail.
3685
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003686- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
3687 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
3688 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00003689
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00003690- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
3691
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003692- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
3693 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00003694
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003695- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
3696 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00003697
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003698- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00003699
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003700- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
3701 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
3702 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
3703 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00003704
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00003705- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
3706 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
3707 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
3708
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003709- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
3710 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00003711
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00003712- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
3713 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
3714
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003715- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
3716 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
3717 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
3718 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00003719
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00003720- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
3721 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
3722
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003723- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00003724
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00003725- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
3726
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00003727- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
3728
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00003729- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
3730 exec statement.
3731
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003732- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
3733 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00003734
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00003735- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
3736 __future__ import didn't work.
3737
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00003738- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00003739 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00003740
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003741- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
3742 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
3743 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
3744 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00003745
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003746- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
3747 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
3748 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
3749 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00003750
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003751- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
3752 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00003753
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00003754- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
3755
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00003756- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
3757
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00003758- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
3759
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003760- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
3761 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00003762
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00003763- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
3764 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00003765
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00003766- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
3767 returned them on 64bit platforms.
3768
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00003769- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
3770 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
3771 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
3772 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
3773
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00003774- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
3775 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
3776
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003777- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
3778 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
3779 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
3780 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00003781
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003782Library
3783-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00003784
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00003785- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00003786
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00003787- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
3788
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003789- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
3790 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00003791
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003792- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00003793 TLS with authentication credentials.
3794
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003795- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
3796 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00003797
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00003798- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
3799 msvc9compiler.
3800
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003801- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
3802 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
3803 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00003804
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00003805- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
3806 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
3807 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
3808
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003809- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
3810 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00003811
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00003812- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
3813
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00003814- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003815 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00003816 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
3817
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003818- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
3819 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
3820 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00003821
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00003822- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
3823
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003824- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
3825 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00003826
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00003827- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
3828 raises ReadError on empty files.
3829
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003830- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00003831
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00003832- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
3833 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00003834
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003835- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
3836 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00003837
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003838- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
3839 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00003840
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003841- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00003842
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003843- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
3844 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00003845
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003846- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
3847 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00003848
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003849- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
3850 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
3851 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00003852 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
3853 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
3854
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003855- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
3856 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
3857 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00003858
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00003859- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003860 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00003861 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
3862
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003863- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
3864 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
3865 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00003866
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00003867- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
3868 which are part of a reference cycle.
3869
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003870- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
3871 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00003872
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003873- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00003874 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
3875 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
3876
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003877- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
3878 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
3879 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
3880 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00003881
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003882- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
3883 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
3884 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
3885 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00003886
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00003887- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
3888 header as required by RFC 1952.
3889
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00003890- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
3891 Distutils.
3892
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00003893- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
3894 an uppercase.
3895
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003896- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
3897 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00003898
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00003899- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
3900 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
3901
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00003902- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00003903 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
3904
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00003905- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
3906 protocol 2.
3907
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00003908- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
3909
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00003910- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
3911 larger than emax.
3912
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003913- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
3914 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00003915
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00003916- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
3917
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003918- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00003919
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00003920- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
3921
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003922- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00003923
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003924- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00003925
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00003926- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
3927 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003928
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003929- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
3930 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00003931
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003932- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
3933 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00003934
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003935- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00003936 Distutils.
3937
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003938- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00003939
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003940- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
3941 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00003942
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003943- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
3944 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00003945
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00003946- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
3947
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00003948- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
3949
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003950- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
3951 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00003952
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003953- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
3954 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00003955
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003956- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
3957 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00003958
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00003959- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
3960
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00003961- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
3962
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00003963- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003964 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
3965 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00003966
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003967- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00003968
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003969- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
3970 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
3971 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00003972
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003973- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
3974 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00003975
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003976- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00003977
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003978- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
3979 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
3980 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
3981 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00003982
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00003983- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
3984 as documented.
3985
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00003986- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
3987 names in the webbrowser module.
3988
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00003989- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
3990
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00003991- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
3992 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
3993
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00003994- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
3995
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00003996- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
3997
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00003998- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
3999
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00004000- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
4001
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00004002- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
4003
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00004004- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
4005 ScrolledText.
4006
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00004007- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
4008
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004009- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
4010 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00004011
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00004012- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
4013 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
4014 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
4015 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
4016
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00004017- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
4018 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
4019
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00004020- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004021 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
4022 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00004023
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004024- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
4025 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
4026 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00004027
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00004028- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
4029 opening an empty or very small file.
4030
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00004031- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
4032 containing incomplete data.
4033
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004034- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
4035 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00004036
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00004037- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
4038
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004039- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
4040 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
4041 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00004042
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00004043- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00004044
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004045- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
4046 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
4047 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
4048 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00004049
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004050- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00004051
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004052- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
4053
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00004054- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
4055 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
4056
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004057- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00004058
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004059- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00004060 attribute.
4061
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00004062- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
4063
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00004064- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
4065 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
4066
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00004067- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
4068
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004069- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00004070 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004071 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00004072
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004073- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00004074 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
4075
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00004076- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
4077
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004078- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
4079 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00004080 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
4081
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004082- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00004083 argument.
4084
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004085- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
4086 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00004087
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004088- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00004089
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00004090- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
4091
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00004092- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
4093
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00004094- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
4095 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
4096
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004097- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
4098 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00004099
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00004100- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
4101 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
4102 ``io`` module.
4103
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00004104- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
4105
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00004106- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004107 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
4108
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00004109- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
4110
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004111- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
4112 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
4113 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00004114
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00004115- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
4116
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004117- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
4118 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00004119
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00004120- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
4121
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00004122- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
4123 whitespace.
4124
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004125- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
4126 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00004127
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00004128- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
4129 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
4130
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004131- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
4132 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00004133
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004134- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
4135 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00004136
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00004137- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
4138 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
4139 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
4140
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00004141- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
4142 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004143
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004144- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
4145 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
4146 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00004147
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00004148- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
4149 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
4150
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004151- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00004152 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
4153
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004154- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00004155
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004156- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
4157 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00004158
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004159- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00004160 subcommand.
4161
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00004162- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
4163 deepcopy()ing.
4164
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004165- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00004166
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00004167- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
4168
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004169- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00004170
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004171- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00004172 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
4173
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00004174- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
4175 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
4176
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00004177- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004178 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00004179
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004180- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
4181 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00004182
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00004183- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
4184 trying to print a traceback.
4185
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00004186- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
4187
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004188- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
4189 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00004190
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004191- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
4192 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
4193 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00004194 Cournapeau.
4195
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004196- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004197 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00004198
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004199- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
4200 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00004201
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00004202- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
4203
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00004204- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
4205 looking for files given by a relative filename.
4206
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004207- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00004208 extracting a file to the root directory.
4209
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004210- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00004211
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004212- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
4213 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
4214 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00004215
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00004216- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
4217 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
4218
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00004219- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
4220 Contributed by Google.
4221
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00004222- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
4223
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004224- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00004225
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00004226- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
4227
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004228- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
4229 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00004230 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
4231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004232- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00004233 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
4234 initialized before.
4235
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00004236- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
4237 names which should not be exported.
4238
4239- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004240 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00004241
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00004242- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
4243
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004244- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
4245 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00004246
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00004247- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
4248
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00004249- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004250 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00004251
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004252- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
4253 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
4254 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00004255
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00004256- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
4257
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004258- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
4259
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004260- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
4261 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
4262 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
4263 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
4264 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00004265
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004266- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00004267
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004268- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
4269 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00004270
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004271- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00004272
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004273- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004274 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00004275
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004276- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
4277 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00004278
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004279- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
4280 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00004281
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004282- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
4283 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00004284
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004285- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
4286 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00004287
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004288- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00004289
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00004290- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00004291
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004292- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00004293
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004294- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00004295
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004296- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00004297 mailbox.MH.get_message().
4298
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004299- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
4300 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00004301
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004302- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
4303 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
4304 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00004305
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004306- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
4307 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004308
4309- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00004310 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004311
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004312- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
4313 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00004314 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
4315 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
4316
4317- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
4318 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004319
4320- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00004321 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004322
4323- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00004324 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00004325
4326- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
4327 called immediately before and after a test run.
4328
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004329- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00004330 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
4331 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
4332 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004333
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004334- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00004335
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00004336- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
4337 printing out values.
4338
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004339- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00004340
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00004341- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
4342 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
4343 threads.
4344
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00004345- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
4346
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00004347- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
4348
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004349- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00004350 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
4351 that it was failing to do localization.
4352
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004353- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00004354 Brandl.
4355
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004356- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
4357 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00004358
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00004359- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
4360 with the threading module.
4361
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004362- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00004363
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00004364- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
4365
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004366- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
4367 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00004368
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004369- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004370 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
4371 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00004372
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004373- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
4374 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00004375
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00004376- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
4377 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
4378 output compared to previous Python versions.
4379
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00004380- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
4381
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004382- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004383 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
4384 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004385
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004386- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
4387 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
4388 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
4389 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004390
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004391- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
4392 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
4393 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
4394 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00004395
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00004396- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
4397 even if an exception occurs.
4398
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00004399- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
4400 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
4401
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004402- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
4403 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00004404
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004405- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
4406 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00004407
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004408- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00004409 character.
4410
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004411- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
4412 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00004413
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004414- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00004415
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00004416- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004417 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
4418 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00004419
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004420- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
4421 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
4422 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00004423
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00004424- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
4425
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004426- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00004427 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
4428
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00004429- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
4430
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00004431- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
4432
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004433- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00004434
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00004435- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
4436
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00004437- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
4438
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00004439- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
4440 ready received.
4441
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00004442- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
4443 import guess_extension`` was used.
4444
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004445- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
4446 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00004447
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00004448- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
4449 overrun.
4450
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00004451- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
4452 bdist_rpm command.
4453
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004454- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00004455
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004456- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00004457
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00004458- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
4459 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
4460
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004461- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
4462 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00004463
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00004464- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
4465 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004466
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004467- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
4468 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00004469
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00004470- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
4471
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004472- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
4473 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00004474
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004475- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00004476 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
4477
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00004478- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
4479 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
4480
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004481- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00004482
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004483- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
4484 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00004485
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00004486- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
4487 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
4488
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00004489- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
4490 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
4491
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00004492- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004493 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00004494 ctime of the files involved.
4495
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00004496- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
4497 deadlock.
4498
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004499- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
4500 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
4501 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00004502
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00004503- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
4504
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004505- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
4506 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004507
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004508- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
4509 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00004510
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004511- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
4512 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
4513 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00004514
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004515- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
4516 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
4517 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
4518 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00004519
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004520- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00004521 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
4522
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004523- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
4524 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00004525
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00004526- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
4527 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
4528
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004529- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00004530 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
4531
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00004532- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
4533
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004534- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
4535 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00004536
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004537- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
4538 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00004539
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00004540- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
4541
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004542- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00004543 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
4544
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004545- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
4546 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00004547
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004548- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
4549 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00004550
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00004551- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
4552
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004553- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00004554
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004555- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
4556 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00004557
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004558- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
4559 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00004560
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004561- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00004562 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
4563
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004564- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
4565 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00004566
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004567- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
4568 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00004569
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004570- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004571 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
4572 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00004573
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004574- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
4575 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
4576 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
4577 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00004578
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004579- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
4580 parameter was set.
4581
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00004582- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
4583 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00004584 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00004585
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00004586- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004587 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
4588 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00004589
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00004590- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
4591 in sharedctypes.py.
4592
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00004593- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
4594 __getattr__.
4595
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004596- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
4597 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00004598
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004599- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00004600 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
4601
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004602- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00004603
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00004604- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
4605
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00004606- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004607 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
4608 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00004609 Jacques Frechet.
4610
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00004611- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
4612
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004613- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00004614 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
4615
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00004616- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004617 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
4618 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00004619
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004620- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
4621 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00004622
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004623- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
4624 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00004625
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00004626- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
4627 the function is not a generator.
4628
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004629- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
4630 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00004631
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004632- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
4633 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00004634
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004635- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
4636 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00004637
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004638- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
4639 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00004640
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00004641- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
4642
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00004643- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
4644
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004645- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
4646 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00004647
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004648- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
4649 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00004650
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00004651- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
4652 Gabriel Genellina.
4653
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00004654- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
4655
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00004656- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
4657
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004658- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00004659
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004660- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
4661 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
4662 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00004663
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004664- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
4665 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004666 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
4667
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004668- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
4669 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
4670 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004671
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004672- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
4673 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
4674 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
4675 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
4676 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004677
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004678- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
4679 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004680
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00004681- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
4682 when given an unicode string.
4683
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00004684- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
4685
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004686- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
4687 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
4688 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00004689
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004690- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
4691 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00004692
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004693- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00004694
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004695- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00004696 statements.
4697
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00004698- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
4699 not a malformed option.
4700
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004701- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
4702 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00004703
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00004704- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
4705 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
4706 Content-Disposition headers.
4707
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00004708- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004709 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
4710 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
4711 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
4712 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00004713
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00004714- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
4715 exception.
4716
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004717- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
4718 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00004719
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00004720- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
4721
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00004722- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
4723
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00004724- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
4725 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
4726
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00004727- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
4728 and then remove it.
4729
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00004730- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
4731
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00004732- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
4733 debugging.
4734
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00004735- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
4736 inspect.getargvalues.
4737
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00004738- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
4739
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00004740- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
4741 to claiming it is Mature.
4742
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00004743- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
4744 when protocol 0 is used.
4745
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00004746- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
4747 to be consistent with Apple tools.
4748
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00004749- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004750 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00004751
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00004752- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
4753
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004754- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00004755 module.
4756
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004757- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
4758 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00004759
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004760- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00004761
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004762- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00004763
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00004764- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004765 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00004766
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00004767- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004768 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
4769 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00004770
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00004771- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
4772 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
4773
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004774- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
4775 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00004776
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00004777- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
4778 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
4779 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
4780
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00004781- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
4782
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00004783Tools/Demos
4784-----------
4785
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004786- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00004787
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004788- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00004789
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00004790Build
4791-----
4792
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004793- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
4794 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
4795 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00004796
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004797- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
4798 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
4799 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004800
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004801- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00004802
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00004803- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
4804
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004805- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004806 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00004807
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004808- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004809 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00004810
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004811- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
4812 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00004813
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00004814- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
4815
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00004816- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
4817
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004818- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
4819 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00004820
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00004821- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00004822 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00004823
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00004824- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
4825
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00004826- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
4827
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00004828- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
4829
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00004830- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
4831
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004832- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00004833
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00004834- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
4835
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00004836- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
4837
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00004838- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
4839
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00004840- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
4841
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00004842- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
4843
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00004844- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
4845
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00004846- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
4847
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004848- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00004849
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00004850- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
4851
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00004852Documentation
4853-------------
4854
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004855- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
4856 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00004857
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004858- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
4859 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00004860
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004861C-API
4862-----
4863
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00004864- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
4865
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004866- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
4867 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00004868
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004869- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
4870 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00004871
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004872- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
4873 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00004874
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004875- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
4876 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00004877
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00004878- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
4879 PyCode_Addr2Line().
4880
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00004881- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
4882 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
4883
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00004884- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
4885 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
4886
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00004887- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
4888
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004889- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
4890 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00004891
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00004892- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
4893
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004894- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
4895 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00004896
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004897- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
4898 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004899
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004900- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00004901 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004902
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00004903Extension Modules
4904-----------------
4905
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00004906- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
4907
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00004908- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
4909
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004910- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00004911
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00004912- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004913 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00004914
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004915- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
4916 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00004917
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004918- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
4919 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00004920
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00004921- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
4922 module.
4923
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00004924- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
4925
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00004926- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00004927 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00004928
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004929- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
4930 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
4931 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00004932
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004933- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
4934 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
4935 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00004936
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004937- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
4938 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
4939 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00004940
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004941 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
4942 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00004943
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004944 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
4945 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
4946 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
4947 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
4948 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
4949 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
4950 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00004951
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004952 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
4953 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
4954 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00004955
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00004956- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
4957
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004958- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
4959 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00004960
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00004961- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
4962 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00004963 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00004964
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00004965- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00004966
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00004967- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
4968
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00004969- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
4970
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00004971- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
4972
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00004973- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
4974
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00004975- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
4976 OpenBSD.
4977
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00004978- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
4979
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00004980- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
4981
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00004982- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
4983
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00004984Tests
4985-----
4986
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004987- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
4988 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
4989 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00004990
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004991- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
4992 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00004993
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004994- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
4995 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00004996
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00004997- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
4998
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00004999- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
5000 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
5001
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00005002- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005003 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
5004 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
5005 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00005006
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005007- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
5008 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00005009
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00005010- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
5011 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
5012
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00005013- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
5014 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
5015 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00005016
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00005017- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
5018
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00005019- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
5020 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
5021
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00005022- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
5023 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005024 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
5025 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00005026
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00005027- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
5028 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
5029
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005030- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
5031 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
5032 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
5033 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
5034 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00005035
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00005036- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
5037
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00005038- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
5039
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00005040- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
5041
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005042- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
5043 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
5044 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00005045
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00005046- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
5047
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00005048- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
5049 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
5050 incorrectly on __exit__.
5051
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00005052- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
5053
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00005054Misc
5055----
5056
5057- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
5058
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00005059
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005060What's New in Python 2.6 final
5061==============================
5062
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00005063*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005064
5065Core and Builtins
5066-----------------
5067
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00005068- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
5069 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
5070
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00005071- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
5072 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
5073
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00005074- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
5075
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005076Library
5077-------
5078
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00005079- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
5080 true singleton object.
5081
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00005082- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
5083 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
5084 into a float.
5085
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00005086- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
5087
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00005088- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
5089 sizes.
5090
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00005091- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
5092
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00005093- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
5094 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
5095
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00005096Build
5097-----
5098
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00005099- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
5100 installer.
5101
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00005102- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
5103
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005104
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005105What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
5106=============================================
5107
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00005108*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005109
5110Core and Builtins
5111-----------------
5112
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00005113Extension Modules
5114-----------------
5115
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00005116- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
5117 segfault as a result.
5118
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00005119- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
5120 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005121
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00005122Tools/Demos
5123-----------
5124
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00005125- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00005126 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
5127 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
5128 are caught and silenced.
5129
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00005130Build
5131-----
5132
5133- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
5134 C runtime in the Windows installer.
5135
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005136
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005137What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
5138=============================================
5139
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00005140*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005141
5142Core and Builtins
5143-----------------
5144
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00005145- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
5146
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00005147- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
5148 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
5149 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
5150 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
5151 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
5152 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
5153 64bit values.
5154
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00005155- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
5156 error.
5157
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00005158- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
5159 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
5160 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
5161 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
5162
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00005163- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
5164 a unicode argument.
5165
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00005166- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
5167
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00005168- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005169 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00005170 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
5171
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005172- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00005173 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
5174 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
5175 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
5176 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
5177 type object.
5178
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00005179- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
5180
5181- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
5182
5183- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
5184
5185- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
5186
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00005187- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
5188 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
5189
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00005190- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
5191 ``__delslice__``.
5192
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00005193- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
5194 library targets in the Makefile.
5195
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00005196- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
5197 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
5198 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
5199
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00005200C-API
5201-----
5202
5203- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
5204
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005205Library
5206-------
5207
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00005208- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
5209 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
5210
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00005211- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
5212
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00005213- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
5214
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005215- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
5216 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
5217 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
5218
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00005219- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
5220
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005221- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00005222 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
5223
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00005224- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
5225
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00005226- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
5227
5228- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00005229
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00005230- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
5231 its symbolic link.
5232
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00005233- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
5234
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005235- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00005236 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
5237 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
5238
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00005239- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
5240 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
5241
5242- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00005243
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00005244- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
5245 path to the Python binary.
5246
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005247- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00005248 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
5249 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
5250 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
5251
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00005252- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
5253
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005254- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
5255
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00005256- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
5257
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00005258- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
5259
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00005260- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
5261 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00005262
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00005263- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
5264 non-integer floating point number.
5265
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00005266- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00005267 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
5268
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00005269Extension Modules
5270-----------------
5271
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00005272- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
5273 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
5274
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00005275- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
5276 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
5277 without limit.
5278
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00005279- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
5280 exploitation of poor argument checking.
5281
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00005282- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
5283
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00005284- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
5285 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
5286
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00005287- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
5288 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
5289 threads/processes.
5290
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00005291Tests
5292-----
5293
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005294- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
5295 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
5296 that expected warning messages are being reported.
5297
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00005298- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
5299
5300- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00005301
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00005302Build
5303-----
5304
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00005305- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
5306
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00005307- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
5308 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
5309
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00005310- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
5311
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00005312- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00005313 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00005314
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005315
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005316What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
5317================================
5318
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00005319*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005320
5321Core and Builtins
5322-----------------
5323
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00005324- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
5325 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
5326 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
5327 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
5328 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
5329 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
5330 default.
5331
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00005332- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
5333 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
5334
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00005335- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
5336 value again.
5337
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00005338- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
5339 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
5340 and introducing s*.
5341
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00005342- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
5343 object was stored in the freelist.
5344
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00005345- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
5346 ValueError consistently across platforms.
5347
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00005348- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
5349 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
5350 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
5351
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00005352- Apply security patches from Apple.
5353
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00005354- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
5355 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
5356
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00005357- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
5358 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
5359
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00005360- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
5361 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
5362 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
5363
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00005364- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
5365 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
5366 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
5367 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
5368 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
5369 failed have been fixed.
5370
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005371Library
5372-------
5373
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00005374- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
5375
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00005376- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
5377 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
5378
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00005379- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
5380 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
5381 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
5382
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00005383- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
5384 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
5385 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
5386 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
5387 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
5388 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
5389
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00005390- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
5391 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
5392
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00005393- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
5394
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00005395- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
5396
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00005397- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
5398
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00005399- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
5400 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
5401
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00005402- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00005403 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
5404
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005405- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00005406 in a redirect.
5407
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00005408- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00005409 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00005410
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00005411- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
5412 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
5413
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00005414- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
5415 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
5416 regular expression.
5417
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00005418- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
5419 thread-safe.
5420
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00005421- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
5422 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
5423 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
5424
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00005425- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
5426
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00005427- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
5428 menu entries were not deleted.
5429
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00005430- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
5431 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
5432
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00005433- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
5434 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
5435
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00005436- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
5437 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
5438 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
5439
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00005440- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
5441 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
5442 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
5443
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00005444- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
5445 the reload() built-in has been removed.
5446
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00005447- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00005448 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00005449 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
5450 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
5451 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
5452 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
5453 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00005454
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00005455- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
5456 raised an AttributeError.
5457
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00005458- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00005459 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
5460 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00005461
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00005462- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
5463 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
5464
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005465- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00005466
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005467- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00005468 on a closed shelf.
5469
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00005470- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
5471
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005472- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
5473
5474- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
5475 invalid arguments.
5476
5477- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
5478 with None arguments.
5479
5480- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
5481 configuration files.
5482
5483- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
5484
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00005485- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
5486 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
5487 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
5488
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00005489- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
5490 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
5491 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
5492
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00005493Build
5494-----
5495
5496- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
5497
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00005498Documentation
5499-------------
5500
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00005501- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
5502 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
5503
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00005504- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
5505 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
5506 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
5507 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
5508
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005509
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00005510What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
5511================================
5512
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005513*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
5514
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00005515Core and Builtins
5516-----------------
5517
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00005518- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
5519 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
5520 an integer using operator.index().
5521
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00005522- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
5523 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
5524
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00005525- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
5526 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
5527
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00005528- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
5529 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
5530 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
5531
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00005532- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
5533 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
5534 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
5535 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
5536 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
5537 level.
5538
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00005539- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
5540 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
5541 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
5542 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
5543 all imports from that module to fail.
5544
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00005545- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
5546 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
5547 new-style classes.
5548
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00005549- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
5550 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
5551 another file in sys.stdout.
5552
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00005553- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
5554 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
5555 another thread's dictionary.
5556
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00005557- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
5558 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
5559 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
5560 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
5561 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
5562 10, -1).
5563
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00005564- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
5565 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
5566 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00005567
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00005568- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
5569 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
5570 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00005571
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005572Library
5573-------
5574
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00005575- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
5576 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
5577 error when they failed.
5578
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00005579- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
5580
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00005581- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
5582
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00005583- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
5584
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00005585- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
5586
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00005587- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
5588 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
5589
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005590- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00005591
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00005592- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
5593 a valid dlerror() message.
5594
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00005595- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
5596 incomplete structure was created.
5597
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00005598- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
5599
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00005600- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
5601
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005602- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00005603
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00005604- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
5605 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005606 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00005607 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
5608 merged into trunk.
5609
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00005610- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
5611
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00005612- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
5613
5614- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
5615
5616- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
5617 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005618 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00005619
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005620- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005621 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00005622
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00005623- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
5624 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
5625
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005626- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
5627 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
5628
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00005629- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
5630 interrupted by a signal.
5631
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005632- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00005633 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
5634 Prevents a deadlock.
5635
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00005636- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
5637 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
5638 default https port (443).
5639
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00005640- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
5641 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
5642 if the new process uses the threading module.
5643
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00005644Tests
5645-----
5646
5647- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
5648 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
5649 have been added to test_warnings.
5650
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00005651Build
5652-----
5653
5654- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
5655
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005656
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00005657Documentation
5658-------------
5659
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00005660- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00005661 Python 3.0.
5662
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00005663- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
5664
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00005665- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
5666 Python 3.0.
5667
5668- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
5669 Python 3.0.
5670
5671
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005672What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
5673================================
5674
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00005675*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005676
5677Core and Builtins
5678-----------------
5679
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00005680- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
5681 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
5682 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
5683 bus error.
5684
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00005685- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
5686 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
5687
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00005688- Add future_builtins.ascii().
5689
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00005690- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00005691 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00005692
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00005693- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
5694
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00005695- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
5696
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00005697- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
5698
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00005699- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
5700
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005701- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
5702 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
5703 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
5704 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00005705
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00005706- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
5707
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005708- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
5709 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00005710
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005711- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
5712 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00005713
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005714- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
5715 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
5716 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00005717
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00005718- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
5719 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
5720 can't be triggered from Python code.
5721
5722
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005723Extension Modules
5724-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00005725- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005726
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00005727- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
5728
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00005729- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00005730
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00005731- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
5732 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
5733
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00005734- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
5735 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
5736
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00005737- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
5738 weakref.proxy.
5739
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005740- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
5741 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00005742
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00005743- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00005744
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00005745- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00005746 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
5747 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00005748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005749- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
5750 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
5751 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00005752
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00005753- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
5754 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
5755 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
5756
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005757- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00005758
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00005759- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00005760
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005761Library
5762-------
5763
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00005764- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
5765 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
5766
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00005767- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
5768
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00005769- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
5770 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
5771 sense).
5772
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00005773- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
5774
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00005775- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
5776 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
5777 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
5778 the patch.
5779
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005780- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
5781 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
5782 the patch).
5783
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00005784- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
5785 os.uname exists.
5786
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00005787- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
5788
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00005789- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
5790
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00005791- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
5792 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
5793 pointer-like object.
5794
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00005795- Added the ast module.
5796
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005797- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00005798
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00005799- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
5800 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
5801
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00005802- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
5803 to errno.
5804
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005805- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00005806
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005807- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00005808 msilib.Record objects.
5809
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00005810- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
5811 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
5812
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00005813- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
5814 in Python 3.0.
5815
5816- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
5817 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00005818
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00005819- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
5820 False boolean value now.
5821
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00005822- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
5823 transfers.
5824
5825- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
5826 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00005827
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00005828- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
5829 when the TarFile is closed.
5830
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00005831- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
5832 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
5833 an exception.
5834
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00005835- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
5836 otherwise be produced.
5837
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00005838- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
5839 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
5840
5841- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
5842 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
5843
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00005844- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
5845 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
5846 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
5847
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00005848- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
5849
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005850- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00005851 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
5852 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
5853 'm' or 'c'.
5854
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00005855- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5856
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005857- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
5858 removal in Python 3.0.
5859
5860- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5861 3.0.
5862
5863- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5864 3.0.
5865
5866- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5867 3.0.
5868
5869- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00005870 Python 3.0.
5871
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00005872- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
5873 Python 3.0.
5874
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005875- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5876 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00005877
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005878- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5879 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00005880
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005881- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5882 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00005883
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005884- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5885 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00005886
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005887- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00005888 Python 3.0.
5889
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005890- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5891 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00005892
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005893- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5894 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00005895
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005896- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5897 3.0.
5898
5899- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
5900 removal in Python 3.0.
5901
5902- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5903 3.0.
5904
5905- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5906 3.0.
5907
5908- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
5909 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00005910
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005911- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
5912 removal in Python 3.0.
5913
5914- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00005915 Python 3.0.
5916
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005917- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5918 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00005919
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00005920- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
5921 Python 3.0.
5922
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00005923- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
5924 Python 3.0.
5925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005926- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00005927
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00005928- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5929
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00005930- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5931
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00005932- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
5933
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00005934- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005936- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
5937 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
5938 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00005939
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005940- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
5941 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00005942
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00005943- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5944
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005945- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
5946 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00005947
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00005948- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5949
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00005950- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5951
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00005952- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5953
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00005954- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5955
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00005956- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5957
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005958- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
5959 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00005960
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00005961- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5962
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00005963- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5964
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00005965- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
5966 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
5967 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
5968 OverflowError.
5969
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00005970- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5971
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005972- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
5973 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00005974
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00005975- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5976
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00005977- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5978
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00005979- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5980
5981- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00005982
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005983- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5984
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00005985- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
5986
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00005987- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
5988
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00005989- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00005990
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005991- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
5992 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00005993
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005994- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00005995 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
5996 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
5997 of Python.
5998
5999- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
6000 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
6001
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00006002- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
6003 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00006004
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006005Build
6006-----
6007
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00006008- The Windows installer now includes Tk 8.5, bzip2 1.0.5, and SQLite 3.5.9.
Martin v. Löwis76307312008-06-12 18:52:00 +00006009
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00006010- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
6011
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00006012- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
6013
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006014- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
6015 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006016 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006017
6018 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
6019
6020 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
6021
6022 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
6023
6024 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
6025
6026 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
6027
6028 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
6029
6030
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00006031C API
6032-----
6033
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00006034- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
6035
6036- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00006037
6038- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
6039 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
6040 PyString names.
6041
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00006042
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006043What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006044=================================
6045
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00006046*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006047
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006048Core and builtins
6049-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00006050
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00006051- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
6052
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006053- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
6054 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00006055
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006056- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
6057 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00006058
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006059- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00006060
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00006061Extension Modules
6062-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006063
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006064- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
6065 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00006066
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00006067- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
6068
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006069- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
6070 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006071
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006072- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
6073 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006074
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006075- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
6076 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00006077
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006078- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
6079 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
6080 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
6081 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
6082 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
6083 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
6084 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
6085 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00006086
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006087Library
6088-------
6089
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00006090- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006092- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
6093 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00006094
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00006095- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
6096
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006097- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
6098 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00006099
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00006100- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
6101 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
6102 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
6103
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00006104- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006105 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00006106
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00006107- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00006108 reference to themselves.
6109
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00006110- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
6111 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
6112 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00006113
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00006114- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
6115 1900-01-01.
6116
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00006117- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
6118 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
6119
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00006120- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
6121 now implemented in C for better performance.
6122
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006123- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
6124 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
6125 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00006126
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006127- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00006128 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
6129 build documentation for more information.
6130
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00006131- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
6132 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
6133 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
6134 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
6135
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00006136- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
6137 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
6138 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
6139
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006140- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
6141 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
6142 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
6143 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00006144
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006145Tests
6146-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006148- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
6149 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
6150 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
6151 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
6152 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
6153 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
6154 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
6155 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
6156 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
6157 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
6158 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
6159 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
6160 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
6161 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
6162 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
6163 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
6164 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
6165 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
6166 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
6167 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
6168
6169 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
6170 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
6171 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
6172 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
6173 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
6174 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
6175 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
6176 access to the underlying socket used.
6177
6178 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
6179 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
6180 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006181
6182 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006183 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006184 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
6185 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
6186
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006187 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
6188 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006189
6190Build
6191-----
6192
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00006193- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
6194
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00006195- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
6196 gcc is used as compiler.
6197
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00006198- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006199 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00006200
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006201C API
6202-----
6203
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006204- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
6205 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
6206 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
6207 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006208
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00006209- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00006210
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006211
6212What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
6213=================================
6214
6215*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
6216
6217Core and builtins
6218-----------------
6219
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006220- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
6221 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
6222 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00006223
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00006224- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
6225 cannot be executed.
6226
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00006227- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
6228 reference on the outer class name.
6229
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00006230- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006231 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00006232
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006233- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
6234 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00006235
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00006236- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006237
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00006238- Added backport of bytearray type.
6239
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00006240- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
6241
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00006242- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006243 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
6244 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
6245 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
6246 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
6247 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00006248
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00006249- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
6250
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006251- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
6252 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00006253
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00006254- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006255
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00006256- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
6257
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006258- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
6259 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00006260
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006261- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
6262 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00006263
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006264- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00006265 exception instances.
6266
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00006267- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006268 doesn't derive from BaseException.
6269
6270- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
6271 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00006272
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00006273- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
6274 memory usage in some circumstances.
6275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006276- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
6277 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
6278 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00006279
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00006280- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
6281
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006282- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00006283 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
6284 longer passed.
6285
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00006286- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
6287
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006288- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
6289 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
6290 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00006291
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006292- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
6293 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006294
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00006295- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
6296
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00006297Extension Modules
6298-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00006299
6300- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
6301
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006302Library
6303-------
6304
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006305- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
6306 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006308- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
6309 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
6310 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006311
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006312- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
6313 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006315- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
6316 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
6317 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00006318
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006319- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
6320 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00006321
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00006322- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
6323
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00006324- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
6325 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
6326 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
6327
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00006328- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
6329
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00006330- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
6331 advertised in the docs.
6332
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006333- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00006334
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006335- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00006336
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006337- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
6338 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00006339
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00006340- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
6341 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
6342
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006343- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
6344 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00006345 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
6346 information as well.
6347
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006348- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
6349 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00006350
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006351- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
6352 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00006353
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006354- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
6355 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
6356 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00006357
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00006358- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
6359 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
6360 strftime.
6361
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00006362- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006363 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
6364 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00006365
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00006366- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
6367 correctly under win32
6368
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006369- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00006370
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00006371- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006372 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
6373 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
6374 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00006375
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00006376- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
6377 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
6378
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006379- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
6380 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00006381
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006382- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
6383 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
6384 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00006385
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006386- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00006387 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
6388
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00006389- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
6390 from 't' to '?'.
6391
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006392- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
6393 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006394 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
6395 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
6396 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006397
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006398- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
6399 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00006400
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00006401Tests
6402-----
6403
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006404- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
6405 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00006406
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00006407- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
6408
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00006409- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
6410
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00006411- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
6412
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00006413- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
6414
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006415- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
6416 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00006417
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00006418- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
6419
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006420- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00006421
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006422- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
6423 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00006424
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00006425- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
6426
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00006427- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
6428
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00006429- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
6430 permission to create files in the root directory.
6431
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00006432Build
6433-----
6434
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00006435- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
6436
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006437- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
6438 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00006439
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00006440- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006441
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006442C API
6443-----
6444
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006445- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006446 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
6447
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006448
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00006449What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
6450=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006451
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00006452*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006453
6454Core and builtins
6455-----------------
6456
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00006457- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00006458 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00006459
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00006460- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
6461
6462- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00006463
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006464- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006465 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00006466
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00006467- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
6468 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
6469 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
6470 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
6471 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
6472 module is:
6473 from future_builtins import hex, oct
6474
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00006475- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
6476 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
6477 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
6478 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
6479 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
6480 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
6481
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00006482- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
6483 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
6484 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
6485 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
6486 PyObject_Format().
6487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006488- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
6489 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
6490 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00006491
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006492- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006493 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
6494 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00006495
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006496- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
6497 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00006498
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006499- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
6500 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
6501 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00006502
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006503- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
6504 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
6505 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00006506
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00006507- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
6508 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
6509
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006510- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006511 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00006512
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006513- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
6514 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00006515 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
6516
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006517- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
6518 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
6519 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00006520
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006521- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
6522 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00006523
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006524- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
6525 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00006526
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006527- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
6528 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00006529
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006530- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
6531 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00006532
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006533- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
6534 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
6535 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00006536
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006537- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
6538 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
6539 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
6540 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00006541
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00006542- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
6543 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
6544 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
6545
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006546- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00006547 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
6548 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
6549
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006550- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00006551 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
6552 support.
6553
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00006554- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
6555 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
6556
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00006557- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
6558
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006559- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00006560 added.
6561
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00006562- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
6563 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
6564
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006565- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
6566 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00006567
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006568- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
6569 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
6570 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00006571
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006572- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
6573 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00006574
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00006575- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
6576 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00006577
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00006578- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
6579
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006580- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
6581 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
6582 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00006583
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006584- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
6585 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
6586 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00006587
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006588- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00006589
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006590- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
6591 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00006592
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00006593- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006594 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
6595 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00006596
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006597- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
6598 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
6599 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
6600 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00006601
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006602- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00006603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006604- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
6605 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00006606
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006607- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
6608 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00006609
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00006610- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00006611 SystemError.
6612
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00006613- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
6614 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
6615 __package__ attribute.
6616
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006617- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
6618 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
6619 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00006620
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00006621- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
6622
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006623- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00006624 attribute of an empty cell object.
6625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006626- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
6627 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00006628
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006629- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
6630 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
6631 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
6632 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00006633
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006634- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
6635 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
6636 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00006637
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00006638- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
6639
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00006640- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
6641
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00006642- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
6643
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006644- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006645 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
6646 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00006647
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006648- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
6649 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
6650 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
6651 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
6652 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
6653 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00006654
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006655- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
6656 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
6657 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
6658 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
6659 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00006660
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006661- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
6662 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
6663 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00006664
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006665- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
6666 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00006667
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00006668- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006669 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
6670 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
6671 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
6672 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
6673 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00006674
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006675- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
6676 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00006677
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00006678- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
6679 with %G.
6680
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006681- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
6682 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00006683
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006684- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00006685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006686- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00006687
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00006688- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006689 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
6690 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00006691
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00006692- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
6693 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
6694
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00006695- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
6696 calls.
6697
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00006698- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006699 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
6700 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00006701
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00006702- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
6703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006704- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006705 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00006706
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006707- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00006708 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
6709
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00006710- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
6711
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00006712- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
6713 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
6714 remaining characters.
6715
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00006716- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
6717 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
6718
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00006719- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
6720
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00006721- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
6722 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
6723 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
6724 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
6725 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00006726 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
6727 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00006728
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006729- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
6730 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
6731 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
6732 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
6733 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00006734
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006735- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
6736 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
6737 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00006738
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006739- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
6740 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00006741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006742- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
6743 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
6744 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00006745
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006746- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
6747 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00006748
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00006749- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
6750
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00006751- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
6752 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
6753
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00006754- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006755 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
6756 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
6757 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00006758
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00006759- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
6760 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
6761
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006762- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
6763 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00006764
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006765- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
6766 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
6767 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00006768
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00006769- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006770 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
6771 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00006772
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00006773- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
6774 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006775 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
6776 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00006777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006778- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
6779 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00006780
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006781- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
6782 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00006783
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00006784- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
6785 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
6786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006787- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
6788 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
6789 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00006790
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006791- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
6792 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00006793
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006794- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
6795 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00006796
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006797- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
6798 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
6799 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00006800
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00006801- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
6802 frame's thread state.
6803
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006804- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
6805 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00006806
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006807- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
6808 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00006809
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006810- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
6811 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00006812
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006813- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
6814 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00006815
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006816- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
6817 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00006818
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00006819- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
6820
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00006821- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
6822
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00006823- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
6824
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006825- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
6826 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00006827
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006828- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00006829
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00006830- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
6831 again, no longer the posix error code.
6832
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00006833- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
6834 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
6835
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006836- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
6837 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00006838
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00006839- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
6840 embedded in the string to convert.
6841
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00006842- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
6843 recognized and rejected.
6844
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00006845- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
6846
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00006847- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
6848 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
6849 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00006850
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00006851- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
6852 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
6853
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00006854- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006855 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
6856 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00006857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006858- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
6859 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
6860 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00006861
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00006862- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
6863
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00006864- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
6865
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00006866- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
6867
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006868- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
6869 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
6870 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00006871
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00006872- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
6873 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
6874 'exceptions'.
6875
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00006876- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
6877 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
6878
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00006879- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
6880 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
6881
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00006882- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
6883
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00006884- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
6885
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00006886- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
6887 head is the original string if sep was not found.
6888
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00006889- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006890 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
6891 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
6892 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00006893
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006894- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00006895
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006896- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
6897 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006898
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00006899- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
6900 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00006901
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006902- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00006903 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
6904 it actually exited.
6905
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006906
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006907Library
6908-------
6909
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006910- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00006911
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00006912- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
6913
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00006914- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
6915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006916- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
6917 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00006918
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006919- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00006920
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006921- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
6922 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
6923 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00006924
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006925- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
6926 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00006927
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006928- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00006929 (ignore-case)
6930
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00006931- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
6932 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
6933 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
6934 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
6935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006936- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
6937 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00006938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006939- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
6940 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00006941
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00006942- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
6943 pickled.
6944
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00006945- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
6946 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
6947
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00006948- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
6949 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
6950 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
6951
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006952- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
6953 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00006954
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006955- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
6956 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
6957 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00006958
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006959- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
6960 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00006961
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006962- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
6963 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00006964
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006965- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
6966 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
6967 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
6968 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00006969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006970- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
6971 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006972 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
6973
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00006974- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
6975
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006976- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
6977 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00006978
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006979- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00006980
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006981- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
6982 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006983
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006984- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
6985 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006986
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006987- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
6988 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006989
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006990- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
6991 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006992
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006993- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
6994 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
6995 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00006996
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006997- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
6998 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00006999
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007000- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
7001 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00007002
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007003- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
7004 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00007005
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007006- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
7007 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00007008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007009- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
7010 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00007011
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007012- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
7013 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00007014
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00007015- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
7016 with extended local headers.
7017
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007018- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
7019 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00007020
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007021- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00007022 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
7023 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
7024
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007025- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
7026 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00007027
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007028- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
7029 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00007030
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007031- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
7032 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00007033
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007034- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
7035 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00007036
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007037- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
7038 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00007039
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00007040- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007041 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00007042 Textbox.gather().
7043
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00007044- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
7045 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00007046 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
7047 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00007048
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00007049- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
7050 that array types do not live longer than needed.
7051
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00007052- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
7053 and when creating a recursive instance.
7054
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007055- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
7056 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
7057 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00007058
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00007059- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
7060 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
7061 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
7062
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007063- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
7064 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00007065
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007066- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00007067 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
7068
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007069- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00007070 good for long regular expression matches.
7071
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007072- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
7073 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00007074
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00007075- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
7076 the current context.
7077
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00007078- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
7079 zipfile module.
7080
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00007081- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
7082
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007083- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
7084 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00007085
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00007086- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
7087
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00007088- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
7089
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007090- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
7091 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00007092
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00007093- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
7094
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007095- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
7096 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00007097
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007098- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
7099 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00007100
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00007101- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
7102
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00007103- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
7104 Tcl objects.
7105
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00007106- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
7107
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007108- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
7109 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
7110 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
7111 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00007112
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007113- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
7114 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00007115
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007116- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
7117 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00007118
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007119- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
7120 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00007121
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007122- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
7123 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00007124
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00007125- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
7126 method used universal newlines.
7127
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00007128- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
7129 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
7130
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00007131- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
7132 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
7133
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00007134- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
7135 files are updated.
7136
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007137- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
7138 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00007139
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00007140- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
7141 configured with --with-system-ffi.
7142
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00007143- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00007144 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00007145
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00007146- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
7147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007148- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
7149 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
7150 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00007151
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007152- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
7153 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00007154
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00007155- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00007156
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00007157- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
7158
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007159- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
7160 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00007161
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00007162- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
7163 to be orderable to properly represent them.
7164
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00007165- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
7166
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00007167- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
7168
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007169- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
7170 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
7171 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00007172
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00007173- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
7174 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
7175
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007176- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
7177 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00007178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007179- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
7180 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00007181
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00007182- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
7183
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00007184- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
7185
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00007186- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
7187 syllables.
7188
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007189- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
7190 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00007191
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00007192- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
7193
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00007194- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
7195 represent the result in a single character.
7196
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00007197- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
7198
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00007199- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
7200
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00007201- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
7202 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
7203 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
7204
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00007205- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
7206
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007207- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
7208 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00007209
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007210- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
7211 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
7212 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00007213
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007214- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
7215 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
7216 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00007217
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00007218- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007219 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
7220 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00007221
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007222- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
7223 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00007224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007225- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
7226 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00007227
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00007228- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7229
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00007230- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007232- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
7233 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
7234 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00007235
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00007236- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7237
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00007238- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7239
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00007240- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
7241 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
7242
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00007243- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
7244
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00007245- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
7246
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00007247- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7248
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007249- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
7250 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00007251
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007252- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
7253 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00007254
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00007255- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
7256 the directories).
7257
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00007258- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
7259 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
7260 injecting HTML into the error page.
7261
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007262- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
7263 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00007264
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007265- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
7266 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007267
7268- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
7269
7270- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
7271
7272- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
7273 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
7274 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
7275
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00007276- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
7277 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
7278 ".cpp" too.
7279
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00007280- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007281 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
7282 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
7283 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00007284
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007285- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
7286 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00007287
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007288- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
7289 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00007290
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00007291- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
7292 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
7293 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
7294 closes patch #723312.
7295
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007296- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
7297 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00007298 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00007299
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00007300- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
7301
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00007302- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
7303 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
7304
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00007305- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
7306
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007307- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
7308 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00007309 directories.
7310
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00007311- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
7312 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
7313 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
7314 trying Mozilla variants.
7315
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00007316- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
7317
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00007318- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
7319 initialization failed.
7320
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00007321- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007322 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
7323 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00007324
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007325- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
7326 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
7327 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00007328
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007329- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
7330 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00007331 correctly now.
7332
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00007333- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
7334
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007335- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
7336 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00007337
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00007338- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
7339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007340- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
7341 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
7342 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00007343
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007344- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
7345 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
7346 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
7347 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00007348
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007349- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
7350 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
7351 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00007352
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00007353- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
7354 whitespace while wrapping.
7355
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00007356- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007357 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
7358 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00007359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007360- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
7361 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
7362 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00007363
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00007364- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
7365 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
7366
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007367- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
7368 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00007369
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00007370- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
7371 concatenation in robotparser.
7372
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00007373- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007374 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
7375 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00007376
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00007377- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
7378 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
7379
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00007380- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
7381
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007382- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
7383 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
7384 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00007385
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007386- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
7387 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
7388 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00007389
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007390- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
7391 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00007392 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00007393
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00007394- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
7395 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
7396
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00007397- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
7398 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
7399
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00007400- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
7401 returned string up to the first NUL character.
7402
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00007403- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
7404
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00007405- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
7406
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007407- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
7408 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
7409 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00007410
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00007411- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
7412
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007413- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
7414 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
7415 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
7416 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
7417 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
7418 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00007419
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007420- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
7421 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00007422
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00007423- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
7424 comprehensive test suite for the module.
7425
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00007426- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
7427 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
7428
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007429- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
7430 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
7431 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00007432
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007433- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00007434 in HTMLParser.
7435
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00007436- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
7437 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
7438
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00007439- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
7440
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00007441- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
7442
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00007443- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
7444
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00007445- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00007446
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00007447- Added itertools.izip_longest().
7448
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007449- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
7450 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00007451
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00007452- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
7453
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00007454- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
7455 doesn't exist.
7456
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00007457- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
7458
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00007459- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
7460
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007461- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00007462
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007463- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
7464 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00007465
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007466- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
7467 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00007468
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007469- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
7470 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00007471
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00007472- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007473 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00007474
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00007475- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
7476 iso8859_16.
7477
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007478- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
7479 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
7480 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
7481 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00007482
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007483- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
7484
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00007485- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
7486 directories.
7487
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00007488- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
7489
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007490- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
7491 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00007492
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007493- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007494 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007495
7496- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007497 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007498
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007499- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007500
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007501- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
7502 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00007503
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00007504- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
7505
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00007506- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
7507 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
7508 parameterless foreign function calls work.
7509
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00007510- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
7511
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00007512- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
7513 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
7514 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
7515
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00007516- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
7517 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
7518
7519- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
7520 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
7521
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007522- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
7523 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
7524 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00007525
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007526- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
7527 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00007528
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00007529- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
7530
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007531- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
7532 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00007533
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007534- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
7535 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00007536
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007537- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
7538 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00007539
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007540- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
7541 separated lists read from logging config files.
7542
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007543- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
7544 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
7545 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007547- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
7548 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00007549
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00007550- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
7551
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007552- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
7553 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00007554
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00007555- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
7556
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00007557- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
7558
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007559- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
7560 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00007561
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00007562- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
7563 regular files.
7564
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00007565- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
7566
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007567- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
7568 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00007569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007570- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
7571 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00007572
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00007573- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
7574 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
7575
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00007576- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
7577 file name mangling.
7578
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007579- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
7580 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00007581
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00007582- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
7583
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007584- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00007585 HTTPConnection.request().
7586
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00007587- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
7588 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
7589 objects.
7590
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007591- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
7592 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
7593 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00007594
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007595- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
7596 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
7597 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00007598
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007599- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00007600
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007601- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00007602
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00007603- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
7604
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00007605- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007606 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00007607
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00007608- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
7609
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00007610- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
7611 GNU modes.
7612
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00007613- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007614 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00007615 opcode.
7616
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00007617- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
7618 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
7619 statement (bug #1586513).
7620
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00007621- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
7622 correctly.
7623
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00007624- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
7625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007626- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
7627 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00007628
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00007629- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
7630 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
7631 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
7632
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007633- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
7634 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
7635 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00007636
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007637- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
7638 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00007639
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00007640- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
7641
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00007642- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
7643
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007644- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
7645 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00007646
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007647- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
7648 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00007649
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00007650- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
7651 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
7652
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00007653- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
7654 with a slash.
7655
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00007656- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
7657 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
7658
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00007659- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007660 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00007661
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00007662- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
7663 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
7664 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
7665
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007666- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
7667 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00007668
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007669- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
7670 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00007671
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007672- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
7673 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00007674
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00007675- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
7676
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007677- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00007678 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007679
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007680- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
7681 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00007682
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007683- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
7684 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007685
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00007686- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
7687
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007688- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
7689 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00007690
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007691- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
7692 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
7693 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00007694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007695- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
7696 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
7697 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00007698
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007699- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
7700 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
7701 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
7702 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00007703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007704- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00007705 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
7706 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007707 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
7708 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
7709 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00007710
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007711- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
7712 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00007713
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007714Extension Modules
7715-----------------
7716
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00007717- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00007718
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00007719- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
7720
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00007721- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
7722
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00007723- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00007724
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007725- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
7726 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00007727
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007728- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
7729 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00007730
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007731- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
7732 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00007733
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00007734- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
7735
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00007736- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
7737
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007738- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
7739 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00007740
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00007741- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
7742
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007743- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
7744 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00007745
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00007746- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
7747
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007748- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
7749 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00007750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007751- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00007752 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
7753 parameter.
7754
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007755- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
7756 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
7757 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
7758 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00007759
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007760- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
7761 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00007762
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007763- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
7764 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00007765
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007766- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
7767 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
7768 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00007769
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007770- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
7771 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00007772
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00007773- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
7774
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00007775- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
7776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007777- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
7778 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
7779 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00007780
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007781- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
7782 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00007783
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00007784- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
7785
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00007786- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
7787
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007788- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
7789 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
7790 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
7791 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00007792
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00007793- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
7794 get_completion_type to readline.
7795
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00007796- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
7797 structure.
7798
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00007799- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
7800
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00007801- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
7802
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00007803- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
7804 intended for RECNO databases.
7805
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00007806- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007807 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
7808 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
7809 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
7810 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
7811 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
7812 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00007813
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00007814- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
7815
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00007816- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
7817
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007818- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
7819 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
7820 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
7821 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
7822 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00007823
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00007824- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
7825 error in spite of a succesful compression.
7826
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00007827- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
7828 of Py_ssize_t.
7829
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00007830- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
7831 fractional times. With unittest.
7832
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007833- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
7834 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
7835 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00007836
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00007837- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
7838
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00007839- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
7840
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00007841- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
7842
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00007843- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
7844
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007845- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007846 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00007847
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007848- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
7849 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00007850
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007851- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
7852 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00007853
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00007854- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
7855 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
7856
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007857- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
7858 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
7859 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00007860
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00007861- Speed up function calls into the math module.
7862
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00007863- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
7864 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
7865 does.
7866
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00007867- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
7868
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00007869- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
7870
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00007871- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
7872
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00007873- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
7874
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00007875- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
7876 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
7877
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00007878- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
7879 datetime's strftime function.
7880
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00007881- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
7882
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00007883- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
7884
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007885- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
7886 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00007887
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00007888- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
7889
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00007890- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007891 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
7892 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00007893
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007894- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
7895 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00007896
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007897- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007898 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
7899 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007900 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
7901 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00007902 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007903 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007904
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00007905- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
7906 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
7907 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
7908 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
7909
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00007910- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
7911 were transposed.
7912
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00007913- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
7914 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00007915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007916- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
7917 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
7918 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00007919
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00007920- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
7921
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00007922- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
7923
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00007924- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
7925
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00007926- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00007927
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00007928- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
7929 databases without a DBEnv.
7930
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00007931- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
7932
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007933Tests
7934-----
7935
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00007936- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00007937
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007938- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
7939 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00007940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007941- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
7942 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
7943 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00007944
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00007945- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
7946 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00007947
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007948- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
7949 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00007950
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007951- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
7952 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
7953 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00007954
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00007955- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
7956
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007957- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
7958 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
7959 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00007960
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00007961- Added some tests for modulefinder.
7962
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00007963- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
7964
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00007965- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
7966 number properly.
7967
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007968- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
7969 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007970
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007971Tools
7972-----
7973
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007974- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
7975 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
7976 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00007977 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00007978
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007979- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
7980 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
7981 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00007982
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00007983- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
7984 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
7985
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007986- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
7987 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007988
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007989- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
7990 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007991
7992- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007993 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
7994 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007995
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007996
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007997Documentation
7998-------------
7999
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00008000- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
8001 include new optional delay argument.
8002
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008003- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
8004 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
8005 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008006
8007- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
8008 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
8009
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00008010- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
8011 Python tutorial.
8012
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00008013- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
8014
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008015- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
8016 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00008017
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00008018- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
8019 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
8020
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00008021- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
8022 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
8023
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00008024- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
8025
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00008026- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
8027 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
8028
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008029- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00008030 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
8031
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00008032- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
8033 docs.
8034
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00008035- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
8036
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00008037- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
8038 string pointed to by its parameter.
8039
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00008040- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
8041
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00008042- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008043 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
8044 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
8045 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00008046
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008047
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00008048Tools/Demos
8049-----------
8050
8051- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00008052
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00008053- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008054 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
8055 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00008056
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00008057- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
8058 file not to get reported properly.
8059
8060
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008061Build
8062-----
8063
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008064- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
8065 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
8066 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00008067
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00008068- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
8069 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
8070
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00008071- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
8072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008073- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008074
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008075- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
8076 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
8077 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
8078 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008079
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008080- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
8081 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008082
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00008083- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
8084
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00008085- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
8086 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
8087 without this option!
8088
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00008089- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
8090
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00008091- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008092 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
8093 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
8094 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00008095
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008096- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
8097 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00008098
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00008099- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
8100
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00008101- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
8102
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008103- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
8104 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00008105
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008106- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
8107 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00008108
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00008109- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
8110 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
8111 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
8112
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00008113- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
8114 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
8115
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00008116- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
8117
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00008118- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
8119
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008120- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
8121 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00008122
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008123- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00008124 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
8125
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008126- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
8127 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00008128
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00008129- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
8130
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008131- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00008132
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00008133- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
8134
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00008135- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
8136
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00008137- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008138
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008139- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
8140 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
8141 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00008142
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008143
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008144C API
8145-----
8146
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008147- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
8148 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
8149 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
8150 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00008151
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008152- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
8153 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
8154 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00008155
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00008156- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00008157
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008158- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
8159 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
8160 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008161
8162- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
8163
8164- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
8165 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
8166
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008167- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
8168 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
8169 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
8170 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008172- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
8173 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008175- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
8176 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
8177 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008179- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
8180 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008181
8182- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
8183
8184- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
8185
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008186- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
8187
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008188- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
8189
8190- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
8191 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
8192
8193- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
8194 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
8195
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008196- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
8197 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
8198 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008199
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008200- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
8201 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008202
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008203- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
8204 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00008205
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008206
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008207Windows
8208-------
8209
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008210- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
8211 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
8212 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
8213 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00008214
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008215- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
8216 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008217
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00008218- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
8219
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008220
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008221Mac
8222---
8223
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00008224- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8225
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00008226- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
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Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008228- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
8229 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
8230 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00008231
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00008232----
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