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Barry Warsawc6941832010-03-19 23:02:15 +00007What's New in Python 2.6.6 alpha 1?
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9
10*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
11
12Core and Builtins
13-----------------
14
Ezio Melotti86e5e172010-07-03 05:34:39 +000015- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
16 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
17 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
18 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
19 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
20 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
21 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
22
Benjamin Peterson8d649632010-06-22 19:21:33 +000023- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
24
Antoine Pitrou4595e512010-06-11 21:48:02 +000025- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
26 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
27 (higher than 0x10000).
28
Mark Dickinson80068da2010-06-05 11:59:41 +000029- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsonb671c292010-06-05 12:15:35 +000030 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
31 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
32 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
33 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson80068da2010-06-05 11:59:41 +000034
Benjamin Peterson85633362010-06-08 14:58:25 +000035- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
36 too large.
Benjamin Petersonc9719132010-06-07 22:27:32 +000037
Victor Stinnerc3e40e02010-05-25 22:40:38 +000038- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
39 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
40
Brett Cannon7d006262010-05-20 18:41:08 +000041- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try
42 implicit relative import semantics.
43
Antoine Pitrou5de15942010-05-17 20:00:52 +000044- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using
45 it from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
46
Mark Dickinsone02c9d22010-05-07 13:23:18 +000047- Issue #1533: fix inconsistency in range function argument
48 processing: any non-float non-integer argument is now converted to
49 an integer (if possible) using its __int__ method. Previously, only
50 small arguments were treated this way; larger arguments (those whose
51 __int__ was outside the range of a C long) would produce a TypeError.
52
Benjamin Petersonc218ce82010-04-16 22:43:53 +000053- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
54 passed to bytearray.
55
Benjamin Peterson8a488082010-04-06 21:55:35 +000056- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
57 changed.
58
Benjamin Peterson498289e2010-04-03 01:40:44 +000059- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
60
Georg Brandleb412142010-05-18 23:19:34 +000061- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method.
62
63- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
Victor Stinner4fd2ff92010-03-22 12:56:39 +000064
Victor Stinnerd156fa32010-03-21 13:32:31 +000065- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid
66 a fatal error in low memory condition.
67
Victor Stinner0217c952010-03-21 13:09:24 +000068- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if
69 the BOM check fails.
70
Ronald Oussoren07466192010-04-18 14:34:22 +000071- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X
72
Antoine Pitrou52ca5162010-05-21 17:22:43 +000073C-API
74-----
75
76- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows
77 embedders of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying
78 sys.path. This helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
79 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
80
Barry Warsawc6941832010-03-19 23:02:15 +000081Library
82-------
83
Ronald Oussoren446aa632010-07-23 12:45:53 +000084- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
85
Antoine Pitrouea435512010-07-21 16:50:52 +000086- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
87 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
88 (Jan Hosang).
89
R. David Murrayedc0d232010-07-17 01:40:30 +000090- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
91 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
92
Ronald Oussorena7297212010-07-11 09:08:11 +000093- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
94
R. David Murraybda5f2b2010-07-09 13:29:33 +000095- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
96
Mark Dickinson58338cc2010-07-08 21:27:05 +000097- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
98 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
99 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
100
Mark Dickinson060d6552010-07-08 19:27:24 +0000101- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
102 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
103 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
104
Mark Dickinson1a7f3022010-07-04 16:59:04 +0000105- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
106
Mark Dickinson644bef72010-07-04 16:28:57 +0000107- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
108
Victor Stinnere9123ef2010-07-03 13:39:22 +0000109- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop
110 module, ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size
111
112- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolà1daf7aa2010-06-30 17:41:25 +0000113 raises an exception.
114
Mark Dickinson9f11f392010-06-30 16:33:23 +0000115- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
116
R. David Murrayc3175fc2010-06-26 19:01:40 +0000117- Issue #9085: email package version number bumped to its correct
118 value of 4.0.2 (same as it was in 2.5).
119
Antoine Pitroub4f0e642010-06-25 00:09:05 +0000120- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
121 on an OpenSSL structure.
122
R. David Murrayff4a01d2010-06-16 00:57:25 +0000123- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
124 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
125
Vinay Sajipf753d332010-06-11 22:56:50 +0000126- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
127
Philip Jenveybc3376f2010-06-09 17:55:28 +0000128- Fix codecs.escape_encode to return the correct consumed size.
129
Martin v. Löwisc5010e02010-06-04 19:46:21 +0000130- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
131
Lars Gustäbel9bcbe492010-06-03 10:07:08 +0000132- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
133 mistake.
134
R. David Murraye036af02010-06-02 22:11:01 +0000135- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
136 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
137
Alexander Belopolskycfd6bc02010-05-27 21:53:16 +0000138- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
139 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
140
Victor Stinnerb0c42872010-05-24 21:42:59 +0000141- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
142 Fredrik Håård
143
Jean-Paul Calderonec28d5542010-05-23 15:22:08 +0000144- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
145 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
146 The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
147
Georg Brandlf9f33aa2010-05-22 11:32:59 +0000148- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
149
Victor Stinner09c0f242010-05-22 16:52:13 +0000150- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
151 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
152 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinnerf5a3eaf2010-05-22 02:12:28 +0000153
Victor Stinner9a4a01d2010-05-21 22:55:31 +0000154- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
155 than strict
156
Benjamin Petersona3401652010-05-21 21:45:16 +0000157- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
158 of files without one.
159
Benjamin Peterson0278a672010-05-21 21:03:02 +0000160- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from collections.Mapping.__eq__ when
161 comparing to a non-mapping.
162
Georg Brandlf72cae42010-05-19 00:07:47 +0000163- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
164
Tarek Ziadée7281162010-05-17 10:26:15 +0000165- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
166
Antoine Pitrouc4006102010-05-15 20:33:07 +0000167- Issue #7640: In the new `io` module, fix relative seek() for buffered
168 readable streams when the internal buffer isn't empty. Patch by Pascal
169 Chambon.
170
Brett Cannonb565ac82010-05-14 01:26:08 +0000171- Issue #5099: subprocess.Popen.__del__ no longer references global objects,
172 leading to issues during interpreter shutdown.
173
Antoine Pitrouca561f52010-05-11 23:45:55 +0000174- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when
175 the zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
176
Mark Dickinson47e3bf22010-05-10 16:16:52 +0000177- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
178 overflow checks in the audioop module.
179
Antoine Pitrouc7035cd2010-05-07 16:59:00 +0000180- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a
181 chunk larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor
182 objects.
183
Giampaolo Rodolà902b57b2010-05-06 18:24:02 +0000184- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
185
Victor Stinner5b4d7ff2010-05-15 21:03:33 +0000186- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing
187 error messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
Giampaolo Rodolà902b57b2010-05-06 18:24:02 +0000188 inheritance with the underlying socket object.
189
Tarek Ziadé06f78cd2010-05-05 22:21:13 +0000190- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
191 Patch by Tres Seaver.
192
Ronald Oussoren29c0fbc2010-05-05 15:13:15 +0000193- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the
194 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
195
Victor Stinner7c8eaad2010-05-05 12:45:31 +0000196- Issue #8313: traceback.format_exception_only() encodes unicode message to
197 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if str(value) failed
198
Mark Dickinson1cdfa5f2010-05-04 14:30:32 +0000199- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a
200 Decimal operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those
201 signals is trapped, the specification determines the order in which
202 the signals should be handled. In many cases this order wasn't
203 being followed, leading to the wrong Python exception being raised.
204
Antoine Pitrou01a255a2010-05-03 16:48:13 +0000205- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
206 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling
207 close() several times is supported. Initial patch by Pascal Chambon.
208
Vinay Sajipc7cbb9b2010-05-03 15:39:57 +0000209- Issue #8581: logging: removed errors raised when closing handlers twice.
210
Antoine Pitrou350c3942010-05-02 19:59:51 +0000211- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
212 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
213
Jean-Paul Calderone0819b092010-05-08 21:11:28 +0000214- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals,
215 not just SIGCHLD.
216
Victor Stinner5b4d7ff2010-05-15 21:03:33 +0000217- Issue #8577: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc() now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadé68ca24b2010-04-30 12:18:51 +0000218 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
219 "Include".
220
Lars Gustäbelb4a5bc92010-04-29 15:35:30 +0000221- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set
222 when mode="w|" is used.
223
Antoine Pitroubb804c72010-04-29 10:07:38 +0000224- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions
225 of the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
226
Senthil Kumaran379eaac2010-04-28 17:25:58 +0000227- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
228 It should correctly return an empty response now.
229
Antoine Pitrou12cb1292010-04-27 22:05:18 +0000230- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline
231 before the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
232
Antoine Pitroubcc17e72010-04-27 19:13:23 +0000233- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
234 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
235
Antoine Pitrou53d7d062010-04-25 21:55:45 +0000236- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown,
237 where the method could block indefinitely if called just before the
238 event loop started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes
239 witnessed in test_httpservers.
240
Antoine Pitrouc689d962010-04-24 20:13:37 +0000241- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
242 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
243
244- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of
245 the SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
246
Antoine Pitroud4030da2010-04-23 23:35:01 +0000247- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the
248 underlying socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
249
Antoine Pitrou3df58d12010-04-23 23:07:37 +0000250- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL
251 socket. Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
252
Antoine Pitrou07072162010-04-23 21:07:58 +0000253- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has
254 a non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
255 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
256 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
257
Antoine Pitrou878602a2010-04-21 19:41:28 +0000258- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing
259 the _ssl extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates
260 doesn't fail because of an "unknown algorithm".
261
Giampaolo Rodolàa2eb7f62010-04-19 21:56:45 +0000262- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
263 from PORT/EPRT commands.
264
Giampaolo Rodolà27892ad2010-04-18 13:19:16 +0000265- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response
266 code as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
267
R. David Murray58a7f752010-04-13 21:05:24 +0000268- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
269
Florent Xicluna3522e042010-03-28 09:37:55 +0000270- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
271
Benjamin Peterson51e7ad32010-04-04 23:27:35 +0000272- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
273
Florent Xiclunad9137c62010-03-23 13:32:34 +0000274- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
275
Florent Xiclunad474f3a2010-03-23 12:37:29 +0000276- Issue #7624: Fix isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable) for old-style
277 classes.
278
Antoine Pitrouab5a9992010-03-22 20:03:59 +0000279- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
280 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is
281 now silenced.
282
Antoine Pitroucfd62002010-03-26 19:33:53 +0000283- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
284 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
285 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou498c4382010-03-22 15:12:58 +0000286
Georg Brandl5a7eca12010-03-21 19:29:04 +0000287- Issue #6544: fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
288 handling.
289
Victor Stinner872d6362010-03-21 13:47:28 +0000290- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been
291 set to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
292 program name
293
Florent Xiclunadbac1682010-03-23 12:17:59 +0000294- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
295
Victor Stinnerbb71dc42010-03-21 13:41:15 +0000296- Issue #1054943: Fix unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text) for the Public Review
297 Issue #29
298
Victor Stinnerc9b7cc02010-03-21 13:37:43 +0000299- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
300 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
301
Matthias Klosee0bc5da2010-03-20 02:12:35 +0000302- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
303 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
304
Matthias Klose2db7bdf2010-03-20 02:11:16 +0000305- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
306 the locale.
307
Brian Curtinb7b21f12010-05-26 13:24:57 +0000308Extension Modules
309-----------------
310
Mark Dickinsona63726f2010-07-18 08:01:37 +0000311- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
312 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
313 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
314 char is unsigned.
315
Stefan Krahea568852010-06-16 14:17:22 +0000316- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against
317 ncurses, do not link the readline module against ncursesw. The
318 additional restriction of linking the readline and curses modules
319 against the same curses library is currently not enabled.
320
Brian Curtinb7b21f12010-05-26 13:24:57 +0000321- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
322 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
323
Antoine Pitroud131c102010-03-21 19:25:23 +0000324Build
325-----
326
Benjamin Petersonaae46dd2010-06-21 15:39:28 +0000327- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
328
Jesus Cead54cdf02010-04-28 11:11:36 +0000329- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
330
Ronald Oussorena23bcce2010-04-18 19:14:06 +0000331- Issue #8175: --with-universal-archs=all works correctly on OSX 10.5
332
Martin v. Löwis974dd582010-03-21 21:52:46 +0000333- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
334
Antoine Pitroud131c102010-03-21 19:25:23 +0000335- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment
336 variable anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker
337 when building a shared library.
338
Antoine Pitrou644c9dd2010-04-06 17:24:02 +0000339Tests
340-----
341
Antoine Pitrou33c58132010-05-11 23:33:53 +0000342- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be
343 handled by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete
344 uncompressed data).
345
Antoine Pitrou12226692010-05-06 13:49:10 +0000346- Issue #8629: Disable some test_ssl tests, since they give different
347 results with OpenSSL 1.0.0 and higher.
348
Antoine Pitrou838c1ee2010-04-30 23:10:44 +0000349- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
350 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
351
Victor Stinnera7baa4b2010-04-27 18:25:39 +0000352- Issue #7027: regrtest.py keeps a reference to the encodings.ascii module as a
353 workaround to #7140 bug
354
R. David Murray12c5fbb2010-04-21 01:41:41 +0000355- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail
356 if any thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
357
Antoine Pitrou644c9dd2010-04-06 17:24:02 +0000358- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
359
Tarek Ziadéf7a65492010-06-06 20:10:03 +0000360Documentation
361-------------
362
363- Issue #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
364 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
365
Barry Warsawc6941832010-03-19 23:02:15 +0000366
Barry Warsawd1dd2e32010-03-18 22:14:36 +0000367What's New in Python 2.6.5?
368===========================
369
370*Release date: 2010-03-18*
371
372
Barry Warsawfb0928d2010-03-09 22:31:52 +0000373What's New in Python 2.6.5 rc 2?
374================================
Barry Warsaw5de59142010-03-03 03:09:49 +0000375
Barry Warsawfb0928d2010-03-09 22:31:52 +0000376*Release date: 2010-03-09*
Barry Warsaw5de59142010-03-03 03:09:49 +0000377
378Core and Builtins
379-----------------
380
Barry Warsawfb0928d2010-03-09 22:31:52 +0000381- Issue #8089: a OS X framework build with --with-universal-archs=3-way|intel
382 had no way to select a 32-bit executable.
383
384- Issue #8084: fixes build issues on OSX 10.6 when targetting OSX 10.4.
385
Barry Warsaw5de59142010-03-03 03:09:49 +0000386Library
387-------
388
Barry Warsawfb0928d2010-03-09 22:31:52 +0000389- Reverting the changes made in r78432. Discussed in the tracker issue #7540.
Tarek Ziadé1a549a72010-03-13 18:38:59 +0000390
Victor Stinner5b4d7ff2010-05-15 21:03:33 +0000391- Issue #8107: Fixed test_distutils so it doesn't crash when the source
Tarek Ziadé1a549a72010-03-13 18:38:59 +0000392 directory cannot be found.
Barry Warsawfb0928d2010-03-09 22:31:52 +0000393
Gerhard Häring924b5712010-03-05 15:50:25 +0000394Extension Modules
395-----------------
396
397- Issue #7670: sqlite3: Fixed crashes when operating on closed connections.
Barry Warsaw5de59142010-03-03 03:09:49 +0000398
Barry Warsawfb0928d2010-03-09 22:31:52 +0000399- Issue #8053: logic was inverted on which platforms to run a test on.
400 caused test_thread to fail on Windows.
401
402
Barry Warsawfc79e8f2010-03-01 22:10:45 +0000403What's New in Python 2.6.5 rc 1?
404================================
Antoine Pitrou9aece752009-10-27 12:48:52 +0000405
Barry Warsawfc79e8f2010-03-01 22:10:45 +0000406*Release date: 2010-03-01*
Antoine Pitrou9aece752009-10-27 12:48:52 +0000407
408Core and Builtins
409-----------------
410
Eric Smith66807852010-02-24 14:27:37 +0000411- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
412 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to
413 strings.
414
Ezio Melotti85ddea72010-02-25 17:51:33 +0000415- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
416 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using
417 the default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf7270ba2010-02-23 23:20:14 +0000418
Antoine Pitrou24837282010-02-05 17:11:32 +0000419- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
420 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
421 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash
422 the interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
423
Benjamin Peterson004f3dc2010-02-06 19:16:33 +0000424- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
425
Victor Stinnerd85f1c02010-01-31 22:33:22 +0000426- Issue #7819: Check sys.call_tracing() arguments types.
427
Mark Dickinson02733542010-01-29 17:16:18 +0000428- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list
429 slice with very large step value.
430
Antoine Pitroubb667d42010-01-17 12:31:10 +0000431- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`)
432 could crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro
433 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty
434 string instead.
435
Benjamin Peterson788864f2009-12-30 19:41:48 +0000436- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
437 AttributeError.
438
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7682d042009-12-29 22:39:49 +0000439- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
440 used to drop the time part of the result.
441
Ezio Melottie7482382009-12-24 22:32:25 +0000442- Issue #6108: unicode(exception) and str(exception) should return the same
Barry Warsaw730820f2010-02-05 18:52:05 +0000443 message when only __str__ (and not __unicode__) is overridden in the
444 subclass.
Ezio Melottie7482382009-12-24 22:32:25 +0000445
Benjamin Petersond76e7112009-12-13 16:41:44 +0000446- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
447
Benjamin Peterson440847c2009-11-19 23:01:36 +0000448- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parenthesis.
449
Benjamin Peterson2c8f8592009-11-19 23:25:14 +0000450- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for def f((x)=3): pass.
Benjamin Peterson440847c2009-11-19 23:01:36 +0000451
Ronald Oussoren55114422009-11-19 16:37:33 +0000452- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread
453 on MacOSX 10.6.
454
Mark Dickinsonf2637242009-11-09 17:45:40 +0000455- Issue #7070: Fix round bug for large odd integer arguments.
456
Mark Dickinson9b125532009-10-27 17:00:03 +0000457- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
458
Antoine Pitrou9aece752009-10-27 12:48:52 +0000459- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
460 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
461 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
462
Antoine Pitrou686c9ad2009-10-27 12:56:06 +0000463- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one
464 thread, and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
465
Gregory P. Smith21c134d2009-12-23 09:46:53 +0000466- Issue #1747858: Fix lchown & fchown to work with large uid's and gid's on
467 64-bit platforms.
468
469
Antoine Pitrou9aece752009-10-27 12:48:52 +0000470Library
471-------
472
Barry Warsawf6706292010-03-01 21:34:34 +0000473- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
474 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
475
Florent Xiclunab6d80cc2010-02-27 14:34:41 +0000476- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
477
Florent Xiclunac92fc822010-02-27 11:26:58 +0000478- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
479 writing.
480
R. David Murray5b06ecf2010-02-24 02:35:33 +0000481- Issue #7975: correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
482
Thomas Hellerd517d082010-02-23 20:17:14 +0000483- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly
Ezio Melotti21704c52010-02-24 16:52:39 +0000484 with the cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Hellerd517d082010-02-23 20:17:14 +0000485
Andrew M. Kuchling47d960e2010-02-22 17:06:22 +0000486- Issue #6243: curses.getkey() can segfault when used with ungetch.
487 Fix by Trundle and Jerry Chen.
488
Andrew M. Kuchling63553d12010-02-22 16:35:18 +0000489- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr().
490 Noted by Kan-Ru Chen.
491
R. David Murray1fa91162010-02-21 04:30:12 +0000492- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
493 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
494
Ezio Melotti502f8eb2010-02-20 09:16:04 +0000495- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
496
R. David Murray2070be82010-02-10 22:47:57 +0000497- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
498 interpreter shutdown.
499
Antoine Pitrou6e127db2010-02-04 20:26:34 +0000500- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
501 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
502 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
503 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
504
Antoine Pitrouca5a06a2010-01-27 21:48:46 +0000505- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
506 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the
507 file position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
508 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
509
Benjamin Peterson00b90512010-01-25 03:35:04 +0000510- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
511 the release file is empty.
512
Tarek Ziadé495517c2010-01-24 00:57:20 +0000513- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options
514 in Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
515 encoded string for them. This ensure that the upload and register commands
516 send the right values to PyPI without any error.
517
R. David Murray3cc61912010-01-16 16:32:39 +0000518- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping
519 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
520 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
521
Antoine Pitrou4cf72aa2010-01-15 00:23:22 +0000522- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a
523 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
524
Antoine Pitrou47c8ede2010-01-14 17:34:09 +0000525- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad
526 argument values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
527
Ezio Melotti698037a2010-01-12 03:38:53 +0000528- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch
529 by Matt Giuca.
530
Tarek Ziadé06426fc2010-01-11 22:54:57 +0000531- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
532 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
533 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
534
Tarek Ziadé330a80c2010-01-08 23:48:37 +0000535- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes
536 gcc when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch
537 by Arfrever.
538
Tarek Ziadéf9983412010-01-08 23:27:23 +0000539- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
540 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
541
Antoine Pitrou0b074572010-01-08 19:21:34 +0000542- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
543 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's
544 no alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
545 Xicluna.
546
Antoine Pitrou8dba7272010-01-07 18:04:12 +0000547- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by
548 Victor Stinner.
549
R. David Murray25617742010-01-06 20:13:39 +0000550- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
551 opening an empty or very small file.
552
Tarek Ziadée220d672009-12-20 23:54:52 +0000553- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in
554 the Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it.
555 This occurs on long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
556
Senthil Kumaran81163642009-12-20 06:32:46 +0000557- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
558 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
559
Benjamin Peterson95671122009-12-13 17:34:05 +0000560- Issue #7348: StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1) now acts as if it got no argument
561 like other file objects.
562
R. David Murray07ca7612009-12-12 18:36:47 +0000563- Issue #5949: fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is
564 missing proper end-of-line termination.
565
Raymond Hettinger287bef42009-12-10 05:56:49 +0000566- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
567
Victor Stinner5b4d7ff2010-05-15 21:03:33 +0000568- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is
Tarek Ziadéf8696732009-12-06 09:26:45 +0000569 generated in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
570
Barry Warsaw730820f2010-02-05 18:52:05 +0000571- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions
572 with msvc9compiler.
Martin v. Löwiscc0c7fb2009-12-03 20:56:15 +0000573
Raymond Hettinger673827c2009-11-30 11:15:28 +0000574- Issue #7410: deepcopy of itertools.count() erroneously reset the count.
575
Vinay Sajipe9c5a042009-11-27 14:03:36 +0000576- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
577
Lars Gustäbel7cf2c802009-11-18 21:09:35 +0000578- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in
579 case of an error.
580
Nick Coghlan29d5bb12009-11-15 22:58:27 +0000581- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
582
Antoine Pitroueaaf66c2009-11-13 22:33:27 +0000583- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
584 a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
585 default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
586 local connections.
587
Antoine Pitrouc747d3a2009-11-09 16:47:50 +0000588- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
589 than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
590 `thread.start_new_thread()`.
591
Antoine Pitrou4fb961c2009-11-05 13:44:28 +0000592- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
593 which are part of a reference cycle.
594
Antoine Pitrouf226ac82009-11-02 21:03:53 +0000595- Issue #7249: Methods of io.BytesIO now allow `long` as well as `int`
596 arguments.
597
Gregory P. Smith56629242009-11-01 20:33:31 +0000598- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
599
Gregory P. Smith63e64ad2009-11-01 20:28:48 +0000600- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on
601 LP64 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
602
Gregory P. Smith6da85f92009-11-01 18:31:13 +0000603- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
604 reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
605 lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
606 afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
607 OSes such as Solaris.
608
Raymond Hettinger80d49b32009-11-01 08:53:21 +0000609- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions
610 raised during the formation of an output tuple.
611
Mark Dickinsond8a2e2b2009-10-29 12:16:15 +0000612- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
613 sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
614 fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
615 than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
616
R. David Murray7034db32009-10-27 23:39:06 +0000617- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
618 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
619
Mark Dickinson20a7cfc2009-10-27 18:27:53 +0000620- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
621 larger than emax.
622
Antoine Pitrouf3a0ff62009-10-27 17:46:09 +0000623- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
624 several threads at once.
625
Mark Dickinson5e672d02009-10-27 16:54:45 +0000626- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
627 is too large to fit in the current precision.
628
Matthias Kloseb9ba2bb2010-01-16 10:31:22 +0000629- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters
630
Ezio Melotti05327832010-01-16 18:43:14 +0000631- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
632 __str__.
Matthias Kloseb9ba2bb2010-01-16 10:31:22 +0000633
Gregory P. Smith9922a9a2010-02-28 18:40:12 +0000634- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
635 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
636
Gregory P. Smithca574992010-03-01 00:35:34 +0000637- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
638 os.waitpid and os.read system calls where appropriate.
639
Matthias Klose690d13a2010-01-22 01:05:13 +0000640Extension Modules
641-----------------
642
Florent Xicluna75f82fd2010-03-01 21:08:21 +0000643- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
644
Martin v. Löwis7f898e32010-02-18 16:24:56 +0000645- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
646 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
647
Ronald Oussoren8ed66ed2010-02-07 20:04:45 +0000648- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit
649 on OSX.
650
Matthias Klose690d13a2010-01-22 01:05:13 +0000651- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
652 (CVE_2009_3560).
653
Gregory P. Smithc21d0cb2010-03-01 04:40:36 +0000654- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a
655 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
656 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
657
Gregory P. Smith8baa7452010-03-01 05:48:57 +0000658- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
659 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
660
Matthias Klose690d13a2010-01-22 01:05:13 +0000661Build
662-----
Mark Dickinson648568f2009-10-31 10:14:33 +0000663
Martin v. Löwis4c5e2c82010-02-15 21:43:41 +0000664- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis4bacaca2010-02-15 08:34:34 +0000665
Antoine Pitrouf9182a92010-01-16 18:05:15 +0000666- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
667 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
668
Benjamin Peterson2cabbcf2009-12-30 03:02:39 +0000669- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
670 found.
671
Martin v. Löwis331411d2009-12-21 19:41:15 +0000672- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l on Windows.
673
Mark Dickinson648568f2009-10-31 10:14:33 +0000674- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it
675 compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported
676 problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
677
Ronald Oussoren61f6a1b2009-12-10 10:29:05 +0000678- Ensure that it possible to build extensions for the default
679 binary distribution on OSX 10.6 even when the user does not
680 have the 10.4u SDK installed.
681
Barry Warsaw730820f2010-02-05 18:52:05 +0000682- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
683 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussoren63364fb2009-12-24 14:19:38 +0000684
Matthias Klosed71657c2010-01-31 16:09:16 +0000685Documentation
686-------------
Victor Stinner5b4d7ff2010-05-15 21:03:33 +0000687
Barry Warsaw730820f2010-02-05 18:52:05 +0000688- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's
689 -J, -U and -X options.
690
Matthias Klosed71657c2010-01-31 16:09:16 +0000691- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
692 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Ronald Oussoren63364fb2009-12-24 14:19:38 +0000693
Antoine Pitrou641d76f2009-10-27 13:04:15 +0000694Tests
695-----
696
R. David Murraydc600de2010-02-06 04:56:33 +0000697- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use test_support.bind_port
698 instead of a hard coded port.
699
R. David Murraya657b0c2009-12-14 22:18:57 +0000700- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
701 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
702
Victor Stinner5b4d7ff2010-05-15 21:03:33 +0000703- Issue #7431: use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a
R. David Murray1b479f22009-12-04 00:01:31 +0000704 file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
705 user running the tests.
706
R. David Murray693618c2009-11-15 00:17:17 +0000707- Issue #7324: add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to
708 catch the case of an option with no handler.
709
Antoine Pitrou80e44f82009-11-11 20:57:55 +0000710- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
711
Antoine Pitrouc747d3a2009-11-09 16:47:50 +0000712- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
713 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
714
Antoine Pitrou641d76f2009-10-27 13:04:15 +0000715- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
716 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
717
Antoine Pitrou9aece752009-10-27 12:48:52 +0000718
Barry Warsawf80ee8e2009-10-19 16:00:35 +0000719What's New in Python 2.6.4 final?
720=================================
721
Barry Warsaw28dbc1f2009-10-26 01:48:07 +0000722*Release date: 25-Oct-2009*
Barry Warsawf80ee8e2009-10-19 16:00:35 +0000723
724Core and Builtins
725-----------------
726
727Library
728-------
729
730
Barry Warsawbde44872009-10-18 16:50:06 +0000731What's New in Python 2.6.4rc2?
732==============================
733
734*Release date: 18-Oct-2009*
735
736Core and Builtins
737-----------------
738
739Library
740-------
741
742- Issue #7115: Fixed the extension module builds that is failing when using
743 paths in the extension name instead of dotted names.
744
745- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
746 crash in GAE.
747
748- Issue #7149: fix exception in urllib when detecting proxy settings on OSX.
749
750
Barry Warsawf71d45a2009-10-06 13:21:07 +0000751What's New in Python 2.6.4rc1?
752==============================
Barry Warsawd3c87652009-10-02 20:23:50 +0000753
Barry Warsawf71d45a2009-10-06 13:21:07 +0000754*Release date: 07-Oct-2009*
Barry Warsawd3c87652009-10-02 20:23:50 +0000755
756Core and Builtins
757-----------------
758
Mark Dickinsonc3a12772009-10-03 08:15:49 +0000759- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
760 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
761
Barry Warsawd3c87652009-10-02 20:23:50 +0000762Library
763-------
764
Tarek Ziadé9d236902009-10-06 12:35:46 +0000765- Issue #7068: Fixed the partial renaming that occured in r72594.
766
Vinay Sajipdd3aa9a2009-10-14 19:53:23 +0000767- Issue #7064: Fixed the incompatibility with Setuptools in distutils
Tarek Ziadé3c8de0f2009-10-05 17:35:51 +0000768 when running the build_ext command.
769
Georg Brandl2b4df432009-10-04 09:03:59 +0000770- Issue #7052: Removed nonexisting NullHandler from logging.__all__.
771
Tarek Ziadé2bb5b482009-10-03 01:21:38 +0000772- Issue #7039: Fixed distutils.tests.test_sysconfig when running on
773 installation with no build.
Barry Warsawd3c87652009-10-02 20:23:50 +0000774
Mark Dickinson5fab1692009-10-04 18:41:25 +0000775Tests
776-----
777
778- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
779
Georg Brandl2b4df432009-10-04 09:03:59 +0000780
Barry Warsawe948ea02009-10-01 23:39:49 +0000781What's New in Python 2.6.3
782==========================
783
784*Release date: 02-Oct-2009*
785
Barry Warsaw103e3232009-09-29 22:41:09 +0000786What's New in Python 2.6.3rc1
787=============================
Barry Warsaw63a976e2009-04-14 13:16:19 +0000788
Barry Warsaw103e3232009-09-29 22:41:09 +0000789*Release date: 29-Sep-2009*
Benjamin Petersonc843a472009-04-15 21:46:14 +0000790
791Core and Builtins
792-----------------
793
Philip Jenvey78652962009-09-29 19:18:11 +0000794- Issue #5329: Fix os.popen* regression from 2.5 with commands as a
795 sequence running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone
796 and Jani Hakala.
797
Philip Jenvey87b4e722009-09-29 04:41:54 +0000798- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
799 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
800
Georg Brandlf7a09be2009-09-17 11:33:31 +0000801- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid
802 UTF-32 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
803
Thomas Wouters1170b992009-09-16 20:38:23 +0000804- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
805
Georg Brandl89971032009-09-16 20:34:51 +0000806- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
807 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
808
Mark Dickinsonb61c0352009-09-06 10:05:28 +0000809- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
810
Benjamin Petersonf492c362009-08-15 13:18:47 +0000811- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
812
Georg Brandl11a81b22009-07-22 12:03:09 +0000813- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
814
Raymond Hettinger30006c72009-07-27 20:33:25 +0000815- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
816 occurred in the argument chain.
817
R. David Murraye38b0a82009-07-19 01:44:23 +0000818- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
819 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
820
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc99be0812009-06-01 22:04:41 +0000821- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
822 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
823
Benjamin Peterson7d6b0142009-07-02 18:19:47 +0000824- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to print(), the default
825 separator and end should be unicode also.
826
Georg Brandl5a7eca12010-03-21 19:29:04 +0000827- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
828 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Petersonf9214692009-07-02 17:19:22 +0000829
Antoine Pitrou6987d542009-05-30 21:43:48 +0000830- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Barry Warsaw2599a1e2009-09-30 15:53:33 +0000831 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou6987d542009-05-30 21:43:48 +0000832
Eric Smithf73758f2009-05-23 14:04:31 +0000833- Issue #6089: str.format can raise SystemError with certain invalid
834 field specifiers.
835
R. David Murray98c78792009-05-13 13:13:18 +0000836- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
837
Mark Dickinsonce057172009-05-11 16:09:39 +0000838- Issue #5981: Fix two minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex: (1) inf
839 and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected
840 and (2) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of
841 float('-nan').
842
R. David Murray05afa1a2009-05-05 00:52:14 +0000843- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
844 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
845 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
846
Mark Dickinsone05e8402009-05-04 13:30:43 +0000847- Issue #5724: (See also issue #4575.) Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to
848 work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now forces its argument to double
849 before testing for infinity.
850
Martin v. Löwis2a574ae2009-04-26 01:01:58 +0000851- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
852 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
853
Mark Dickinson22999a62009-04-25 13:16:50 +0000854- Issue #5829: complex('1e-500') no longer raises an exception
855
Benjamin Peterson4585ca92009-04-18 20:50:24 +0000856- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
Georg Brandl5a7eca12010-03-21 19:29:04 +0000857 some built-in types.
Benjamin Peterson4585ca92009-04-18 20:50:24 +0000858
Benjamin Petersonaf75a5f2009-04-25 00:44:44 +0000859- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
860
Benjamin Petersonc843a472009-04-15 21:46:14 +0000861- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
Barry Warsaw63a976e2009-04-14 13:16:19 +0000862
Walter Dörwaldf11232e2009-05-03 22:38:54 +0000863- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
864 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
865 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
866 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
867
Thomas Heller50101de2009-04-24 20:18:22 +0000868Library
R. David Murray7cd8f2b2009-04-15 23:00:41 +0000869-------
870
Vinay Sajipdd3aa9a2009-10-14 19:53:23 +0000871- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
Senthil Kumarandff20282009-10-11 05:35:44 +0000872
Antoine Pitrou530e1ac2009-09-29 18:14:09 +0000873- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an `array.array` to
874 `httplib.HTTPConnection.send`. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
875
Antoine Pitrou5cc3d032009-09-21 21:36:48 +0000876- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX
877 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
878
Ronald Oussoren40617a82009-09-20 10:37:33 +0000879- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
880
Tarek Ziadéde2a1072009-09-19 09:58:51 +0000881- Issue #6947: Fix distutils test on windows. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
882
Thomas Hellera6683c82009-09-18 20:12:29 +0000883- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
884 does now always result in NULL.
885
886- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize
887 correctly with base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller820aefe2009-09-18 19:32:08 +0000888
Georg Brandl894dff42009-09-18 09:19:52 +0000889- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing
890 debug message.
891
Matthias Klose58235772009-09-13 15:12:47 +0000892- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
893
Mark Dickinsonc05b7892009-09-08 19:22:18 +0000894- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
895 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
896 in long(Decimal('nan')).
897
Mark Dickinsonc3c112d2009-09-07 16:19:35 +0000898- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
899 with no type specifier.
900
Ronald Oussoren79655052009-09-06 12:26:54 +0000901- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder revers to non-existing version.plist
902
Chris Withers49148cf2009-09-04 16:51:16 +0000903- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
904 repeatedly concatenating strings in httplib's
905 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
906 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
907
Mark Dickinson7f265b72009-08-28 13:35:02 +0000908- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
909 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
910
Gregory P. Smith1cfc9c02009-08-15 06:40:49 +0000911- Issue #6117: Fix O(n**2) performance degradation when outputting lots of
912 small data on a buffered socket.socket.makefile() object.
913
Raymond Hettingerd6119ef2009-08-04 18:49:26 +0000914- Issue #6637: defaultdict.copy() did not work when the default factory
915 was left unspecified. Also, the eval/repr round-trip would fail when
916 the default_factory was None.
917
Senthil Kumaran308681c2009-07-26 12:36:08 +0000918- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
919 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
920
Vinay Sajipdd3aa9a2009-10-14 19:53:23 +0000921- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
R. David Murray17438dc2009-07-21 17:02:14 +0000922 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
923 descriptor errors
924
Hirokazu Yamamotofcaa2102009-07-17 06:33:03 +0000925- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn sagfault on bad formatted string.
926
Hirokazu Yamamotob7b811c2009-06-29 14:37:28 +0000927- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
928
R. David Murrayc4c84e12009-06-23 20:37:26 +0000929- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated
930 a 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
931 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
932
Facundo Batista07638b92009-06-19 19:51:26 +0000933- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
934
Hirokazu Yamamoto86c8efc2009-06-14 04:48:42 +0000935- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when annonymous.
936 (On Unix)
937
Martin v. Löwis1cfa3922009-06-13 09:07:01 +0000938- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
939
Vinay Sajip85d69f72010-01-15 23:25:14 +0000940- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajipff4018f2009-06-11 10:01:04 +0000941 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
942
R. David Murray2edb85d2009-05-27 20:16:24 +0000943- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
944 argument to the 'help' function.
945
Martin v. Löwise7e46f82009-05-24 19:42:14 +0000946- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
947 the directory already exists.
948
Raymond Hettinger4f1e1632009-05-27 02:17:26 +0000949- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
950 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
951
Antoine Pitrou6c3064b2009-05-24 15:41:43 +0000952- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
953 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
954 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
955
Antoine Pitrou794b3fc2009-05-23 15:47:13 +0000956- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
957 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
958 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
959
R. David Murrayeb059b82009-05-23 01:42:42 +0000960- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
961 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
962
Antoine Pitroufe8fb462009-05-15 12:03:56 +0000963- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
964
Antoine Pitrou250bf342009-05-14 21:29:45 +0000965- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
966
Vinay Sajip28274ab2009-05-09 12:11:30 +0000967- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
968 trying to print a traceback.
969
R. David Murrayd0a45392009-05-07 16:45:44 +0000970- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
971 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
972
Thomas Heller54e02482009-05-05 18:59:30 +0000973- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
974 return directories.
975
Antoine Pitroue199a492009-05-04 21:24:37 +0000976- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
977 extracting a file to the root directory.
978
R. David Murraycecc3a02009-04-29 14:54:29 +0000979- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
980
Thomas Heller01e117f2009-04-28 20:01:18 +0000981- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
982
Antoine Pitrou7d834a52009-04-27 21:01:13 +0000983- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
984 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
985 initialized before.
986
Thomas Heller50101de2009-04-24 20:18:22 +0000987- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
988
Vinay Sajip03d327d2009-04-16 19:14:09 +0000989- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
990
R. David Murray7cd8f2b2009-04-15 23:00:41 +0000991- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
992 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
993 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
994 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
995 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
996
Walter Dörwald6c863d12009-04-25 14:05:52 +0000997- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
998 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
999 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
1000
Gregory P. Smithe1e67642009-06-26 08:19:19 +00001001- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a DeprecationWarning when storing
1002 files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
1003
Matthias Klose692a4aa2009-09-13 15:51:51 +00001004- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
1005 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
1006 Michael Haubenwallner.
1007
1008- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
1009 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
1010
1011- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
1012 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
1013 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
1014
1015- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
1016 containing incomplete data.
1017
1018- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
1019 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
1020
Vinay Sajipdd3aa9a2009-10-14 19:53:23 +00001021- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Matthias Klose692a4aa2009-09-13 15:51:51 +00001022
1023- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
1024
1025- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
1026
1027- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
1028
1029- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
1030 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
1031 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1032
1033- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
1034 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
1035
1036- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
1037 looking for files given by a relative filename.
1038
1039- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
1040 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
1041
1042- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
1043 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
1044
1045- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
1046 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
1047
Barry Warsaw2599a1e2009-09-30 15:53:33 +00001048- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
1049 broken for old-style extensions.
Matthias Klose692a4aa2009-09-13 15:51:51 +00001050
1051- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
1052 names which should not be exported.
1053
1054- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
1055 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
1056
1057- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
1058 module.
1059
Martin v. Löwis416b2622009-05-29 16:00:23 +00001060Extension Modules
1061-----------------
1062
Georg Brandl3ad28472009-09-19 07:46:24 +00001063- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called
1064 with something other than a tuple as first argument.
1065
Mark Dickinson02a9ce32009-09-06 21:23:05 +00001066- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
1067
Brett Cannon559eb082009-08-13 19:45:44 +00001068- Fix expat to not segfault with specially crafted input.
1069
Martin v. Löwis416b2622009-05-29 16:00:23 +00001070- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
1071
Antoine Pitrou8151da02009-05-01 21:24:56 +00001072Build
1073-----
1074
Matthias Klose2697ff22009-09-23 18:33:48 +00001075- Issue #6980: Fix ctypes build failure on armel-linux-gnueabi with
1076 -mfloat-abi=softfp.
1077
Ronald Oussoren461f2202009-09-06 10:54:28 +00001078- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
1079
Martin v. Löwis230d2a22009-06-28 09:35:10 +00001080- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
1081 extensions are installed.
1082
Benjamin Peterson2eb65452009-05-23 19:35:33 +00001083- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
1084
Antoine Pitrou8151da02009-05-01 21:24:56 +00001085- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
1086 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1087
Matthias Klose692a4aa2009-09-13 15:51:51 +00001088- Issue 5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
1089 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
1090
Tarek Ziadé8caea6f2009-08-21 14:30:02 +00001091Documentation
1092-------------
1093
1094- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
1095 for Windows.
1096
Tarek Ziadé95b09912009-08-29 13:37:34 +00001097- Issue #6801 : symmetric_difference_update also accepts |.
1098 Thanks to Carl Chenet.
1099
Walter Dörwald729df012009-04-25 12:23:49 +00001100Tests
1101-----
1102
1103- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
1104 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
1105 incorrectly on __exit__.
1106
Barry Warsaw63a976e2009-04-14 13:16:19 +00001107
Matthias Klose692a4aa2009-09-13 15:51:51 +00001108What's New in Python 2.6.2
1109==========================
1110
1111*Release date: 14-Apr-2009*
1112
1113
Barry Warsaw90971e02009-04-07 01:54:02 +00001114What's New in Python 2.6.2 rc 1
1115===============================
Barry Warsaw6b257f42008-12-05 05:03:06 +00001116
Barry Warsaw90971e02009-04-07 01:54:02 +00001117*Release date: 06-Apr-2009*
Barry Warsaw6b257f42008-12-05 05:03:06 +00001118
1119Core and Builtins
1120-----------------
1121
Raymond Hettinger9293eb92009-02-24 12:25:32 +00001122- xrange() is now registered as a Sequence.
1123
Georg Brandle9b91212009-04-05 21:26:31 +00001124- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
1125 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
1126
1127- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
1128
Barry Warsaw90971e02009-04-07 01:54:02 +00001129- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As
1130 a result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
Benjamin Peterson53f098c2009-03-18 21:49:29 +00001131
Eric Smith1718b472009-02-20 14:07:55 +00001132- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
1133 used when using str.format() with str, unicode, long, int, and
1134 float arguments.
1135
Raymond Hettinger32596522009-02-18 23:12:48 +00001136- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division
1137 for ints and longs.
1138
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +00001139- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
1140 parameter was set.
1141
Raymond Hettinger24e28722009-02-02 22:44:06 +00001142- Issue 1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
1143 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
1144 zip(), and bytearray().
1145
Antoine Pitroua1b22ce2009-01-13 23:25:47 +00001146- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
1147 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
1148 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
1149
Georg Brandl686d53e2009-01-14 00:08:09 +00001150- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
1151
Antoine Pitrou5b0767c2009-01-06 19:00:59 +00001152- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
1153 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
1154 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
1155 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
1156 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
1157
Georg Brandl734373c2009-01-03 21:55:17 +00001158- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
1159
1160- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
1161 file with `str' filename on Windows.
1162
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +00001163- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
1164 did not get collected.
1165
Nick Coghland4656402008-12-30 01:36:00 +00001166- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
1167 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
1168
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +00001169- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
1170 directory on POSIX systems.
1171
1172- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
1173 systems.
1174
1175- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
1176 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
1177
Georg Brandlef29f862008-12-28 11:55:24 +00001178- Issue #4759: fix a segfault for bytearray.translate(x, None).
1179
Skip Montanaro6a00c742008-12-23 03:35:04 +00001180- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
1181 fail.
1182
Jeffrey Yasskin69614982008-12-11 05:21:18 +00001183- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
1184 exceptions.
1185
Benjamin Petersonc6e80eb2008-12-21 17:01:26 +00001186- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
1187 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
1188 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
1189
Jeffrey Yasskin69614982008-12-11 05:21:18 +00001190- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc79c9f762008-12-10 23:56:33 +00001191 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
1192
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +00001193- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
Georg Brandld2094602008-12-05 08:51:30 +00001194 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
1195 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
1196 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
1197
Georg Brandlfa71a902008-12-05 09:08:28 +00001198- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__
1199 instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
1200
Antoine Pitrou599db7f2008-12-07 00:07:51 +00001201- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
1202 which there are buffer exports.
1203
Matthias Klosea8da9e02009-04-04 14:19:56 +00001204- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
1205 short file names.
1206
Gregory P. Smithdd7b6302009-04-06 06:47:37 +00001207- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
1208 returned them on 64bit platforms.
1209
Barry Warsaw6b257f42008-12-05 05:03:06 +00001210Library
1211-------
1212
Georg Brandldcfed0e2009-04-12 17:26:19 +00001213- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
1214 a value in SafeConfigParser.
1215
Vinay Sajip03d327d2009-04-16 19:14:09 +00001216- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéb9f1a0c2009-04-09 22:48:19 +00001217 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
1218
Tarek Ziadé0daf2f32009-04-05 21:47:02 +00001219- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
1220 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
1221
Georg Brandle9b91212009-04-05 21:26:31 +00001222- Issue 5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
1223
Georg Brandlf7a1efc2009-04-05 10:51:10 +00001224- Issue 1726172: fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
1225
Georg Brandl9b08e052009-04-05 21:21:05 +00001226- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
1227 printing out values.
1228
1229- Issue #4572: added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
1230
1231- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
1232 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
1233 threads.
1234
1235- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
1236
1237- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
1238
R. David Murray51c6b212009-04-02 14:09:49 +00001239- Issue 2625: added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
1240 mailbox.MH.get_message().
1241
Raymond Hettinger51ac4f42009-04-01 18:57:45 +00001242- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
1243
Jesse Noller70b11f02009-03-31 22:25:20 +00001244- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
1245 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
1246
Barry Warsaw90971e02009-04-07 01:54:02 +00001247- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not
1248 created with the threading module.
Benjamin Peterson61611f82009-03-31 21:40:18 +00001249
Jesse Noller6be88da2009-03-31 18:39:39 +00001250- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
1251
Jesse Noller8b56d472009-03-31 15:01:45 +00001252- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
1253 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
1254 examples.
1255
Hirokazu Yamamoto60098042009-03-31 13:22:01 +00001256- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
1257
Victor Stinner5b4d7ff2010-05-15 21:03:33 +00001258- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Benjamin Petersone68892d2010-01-30 20:00:35 +00001259 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
1260 be disabled, and not compiled.
1261
Jesse Nollerf0d21c72009-03-30 23:38:36 +00001262- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
1263 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
1264
Vinay Sajip03d327d2009-04-16 19:14:09 +00001265- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Jesse Nollerb48cfa62009-03-30 16:19:10 +00001266 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
1267 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
1268
1269- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not
1270 defined (part of issue #5035).
1271
Marc-André Lemburg152f2222009-03-25 19:52:04 +00001272- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
1273 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
1274 output compared to previous Python versions.
1275
Lars Gustäbel9e2a09a2009-03-22 20:22:29 +00001276- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
1277 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
1278 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
1279 partial bzip2 compressed data.
1280
Benjamin Peterson373498f2009-03-22 17:49:21 +00001281- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
1282 even if an exception occurs.
1283
Mark Dickinson71416822009-03-17 18:07:41 +00001284- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
1285 '>' alignment characters.
1286
Antoine Pitroua099d142009-03-14 00:13:36 +00001287- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
1288 character.
1289
Guilherme Poloc4f54fd2009-03-07 01:51:48 +00001290- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
1291 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
1292 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
1293
1294- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
1295
Hirokazu Yamamotoec5294f2009-03-05 14:30:13 +00001296- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
1297
Hirokazu Yamamoto857c00e2009-03-03 22:55:00 +00001298- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
1299
Barry Warsaw90971e02009-04-07 01:54:02 +00001300- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data
1301 all ready received.
Benjamin Petersona97bed92009-03-02 22:46:11 +00001302
Benjamin Petersone392b4f2009-03-02 03:42:39 +00001303- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
1304 import guess_extension`` was used.
1305
Hirokazu Yamamoto4b27e962009-02-28 12:42:16 +00001306- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
1307 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
1308
Hirokazu Yamamotoe363fa02009-02-28 11:39:45 +00001309- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
1310 overrun.
1311
Hirokazu Yamamoto978bacd2009-02-18 15:11:55 +00001312- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
1313
1314- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
1315 The file was resized to wrong size.
1316
Vinay Sajip83470422009-02-17 17:47:15 +00001317- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call in logging to
1318 help out IronPython.
1319
Tarek Ziadé19fe0c82009-02-13 23:02:44 +00001320- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
1321 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
1322
Mark Dickinsona84f2652009-02-12 18:05:07 +00001323- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
1324 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
1325 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
1326
Thomas Heller07750562009-02-10 18:46:11 +00001327- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
1328 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
1329
Jesse Nollere6bab482009-03-30 16:11:16 +00001330- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Barry Warsaw90971e02009-04-07 01:54:02 +00001331 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
1332 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Nollere6bab482009-03-30 16:11:16 +00001333
Barry Warsaw90971e02009-04-07 01:54:02 +00001334- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying
1335 issue in sharedctypes.py.
Jesse Nollere6bab482009-03-30 16:11:16 +00001336
Tarek Ziadé436eb082009-02-10 12:33:42 +00001337- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
1338 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
1339
Guilherme Polo4bf471f2009-02-09 16:43:02 +00001340- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
1341
Vinay Sajip9c786582009-02-08 19:14:41 +00001342- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case.
1343 This is a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
1344
Guilherme Poloc8a20da2009-02-06 22:52:31 +00001345- Partial fix to issue #1731706: memory leak in Tkapp_Call when calling
1346 from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl interpreter.
1347 Patch by Robert Hancock.
1348
Vinay Sajip9c786582009-02-08 19:14:41 +00001349- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadéf28849a2009-02-05 22:55:00 +00001350 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
1351
Guilherme Polob2dbd432009-02-02 21:15:41 +00001352- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
1353
Antoine Pitrou4ad77e22009-01-29 20:30:51 +00001354- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
1355 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
1356 "src.new").
1357
Raymond Hettingerc9794482009-01-28 23:14:58 +00001358- Issue 4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for
1359 Iterator and MutableSet.
1360
Raymond Hettinger8c0cee82009-01-27 10:30:26 +00001361- Issue 5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
1362 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
1363
Martin v. Löwise8b471c2009-01-24 15:50:00 +00001364- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
1365 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
1366
Martin v. Löwis3a8071a2009-01-24 14:04:33 +00001367- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
1368 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
1369
Antoine Pitrou19fec8b2009-01-21 00:56:37 +00001370- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
1371 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
1372 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
1373 traditional 2.x file object.
1374
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0293c802009-01-17 16:46:35 +00001375- Issue #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
1376 opened with other applications.
1377
Raymond Hettinger825758c2009-01-08 05:20:19 +00001378- Issue 4816: itertools.combinations() and itertools.product were raising
1379 a ValueError for values of *r* larger than the input iterable. They now
1380 correctly return an empty iterator.
1381
Raymond Hettinger8f726922009-01-03 09:27:41 +00001382- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
Raymond Hettinger40188782009-01-03 09:24:18 +00001383 cast as floats.
1384
Raymond Hettingerd263bd82008-12-31 04:18:44 +00001385- Issue 4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
1386 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
1387
Martin v. Löwis918ae522008-12-29 16:23:43 +00001388- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
1389
Martin v. Löwis659bf292008-12-29 15:53:25 +00001390- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
1391
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc360d8cf2008-12-15 22:16:00 +00001392- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
1393 handling.
1394
Antoine Pitrouf8638a82008-12-14 18:08:37 +00001395- Issue #4574: fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
1396 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16)
1397 and gets split on a chunk boundary.
1398
Nick Coghlan30327242008-12-14 11:30:16 +00001399- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
1400 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
1401 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
1402
1403- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
1404 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
1405 Alexander Belopolsky.
1406
1407- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
1408 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
1409 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
1410 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
1411 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
1412 Alexander Belopolsky.
1413
1414- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
1415 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
1416 Alexander Belopolsky.
1417
Lars Gustäbel696d6ba2008-12-12 14:14:42 +00001418- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
1419
Skip Montanarob7387a52008-12-06 17:39:54 +00001420- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
1421 libs.
1422
Georg Brandlfa71a902008-12-05 09:08:28 +00001423- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
1424
Matthias Klosee1e6ed12009-01-10 17:11:11 +00001425- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
1426 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
1427
Matthias Klosea65e3302009-04-05 21:35:06 +00001428- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
1429 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
1430
Tarek Ziadéf66326f2009-01-26 17:20:15 +00001431- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
1432 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
1433
Raymond Hettinger1f4f0812009-02-03 03:44:39 +00001434- Registered Decimal as a numbers.Number so that isinstance(d, Number) works.
Raymond Hettinger45fd4762009-02-03 03:42:07 +00001435
Mark Dickinson3df16922009-01-24 21:30:14 +00001436- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
1437 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
1438
Mark Dickinsonc95c6f12009-01-04 21:30:17 +00001439- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
1440
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +00001441- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé653cb622009-01-04 00:07:14 +00001442 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
1443
Mark Dickinsonfd6032d2009-01-02 23:16:51 +00001444- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
1445 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
1446
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +00001447- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
1448 the function is not a generator.
1449
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +00001450- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
1451 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadée4ea6bc2008-12-30 23:06:46 +00001452
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +00001453 - Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
1454 works as expected in the interactive environment.
1455
1456- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
1457 Gabriel Genellina.
1458
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +00001459- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé0edab542008-12-29 22:36:22 +00001460 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
1461
Tarek Ziadéba486082008-12-27 13:28:42 +00001462- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
1463
Benjamin Peterson828a7062008-12-27 17:05:29 +00001464- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
1465
1466- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
1467 handling.
1468
Benjamin Petersonc6e80eb2008-12-21 17:01:26 +00001469- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
1470 when given an unicode string.
1471
1472- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
1473
Mark Dickinson7c62f892008-12-11 09:17:40 +00001474- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
1475 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
1476 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
1477
Benjamin Petersonc6e80eb2008-12-21 17:01:26 +00001478- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the
1479 --dry-run option.
1480
1481- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
1482 libs.
1483
Georg Brandlf3a0b862008-12-07 14:47:12 +00001484- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
1485 statements.
1486
1487- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
1488 not a malformed option.
1489
1490- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
1491 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
1492
Fred Drake0c7dfa32008-12-04 19:01:28 +00001493- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
1494 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
1495 Content-Disposition headers.
1496
Matthias Klose19f6e212009-04-05 22:12:56 +00001497- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
1498 when protocol 0 is used.
1499
1500- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
1501
1502- Issue #1737832 : plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
1503 module.
1504
1505- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process
1506 creates one of the needed subdirectories.
1507
1508Tools/Demos
1509-----------
1510
1511- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
1512
1513Extension Modules
1514-----------------
1515
1516- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
1517 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
1518
1519- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
1520
1521- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
1522
1523- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
1524
1525- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
1526
1527- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
1528
1529- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
1530
1531- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
1532 OpenBSD.
1533
1534Build
1535-----
1536
1537- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
1538
1539- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
1540
1541- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
1542
1543- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
1544
1545- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
1546
1547- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
1548
Matthias Klose19f6e212009-04-05 22:12:56 +00001549C-API
1550-----
1551
1552- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
1553
1554- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
1555 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
1556
1557Tests
1558-----
1559
1560- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
1561
1562- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajip03d327d2009-04-16 19:14:09 +00001563 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
Matthias Klose19f6e212009-04-05 22:12:56 +00001564 from test support, which does the conversion.
1565
1566- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
1567
1568
1569What's New in Python 2.6.1
1570==========================
1571
1572*Release date: 04-Dec-2008*
1573
1574Core and Builtins
1575-----------------
1576
1577- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
1578 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
1579 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
1580
1581- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
1582 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
1583
1584- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
1585 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
1586
1587- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the imageop.rgb2rgb8() function.
1588
1589- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
1590
1591- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
1592
1593- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
1594 exec statement.
1595
1596- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
1597 method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
1598
1599- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
1600 __future__ import didn't work.
1601
1602- On windows, os.chdir given unicode was not working if GetCurrentDirectoryW
1603 returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful this code path is
1604 really executed because I cannot move to such directory on win2k)
1605
1606- Issue #4069: When set.remove(element) is used with a set element, the element
1607 is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the eventual
1608 KeyError would always report the empty frozenset([]) as the missing key. Now
1609 it correctly refers to the initial element.
1610
1611- Fixed C99 style comments in several files. Python is now C89 compatible
1612 again.
1613
1614Library
1615-------
1616
Christian Heimes268be912008-11-28 11:03:48 +00001617- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
1618 exception.
1619
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc42491ce2008-11-21 22:08:14 +00001620- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if
1621 the ctypes module is not present.
1622
Martin v. Löwisfc1e0ef2008-11-19 09:11:49 +00001623- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
1624
Hirokazu Yamamotob2d81422008-11-03 18:10:24 +00001625- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
1626 and then remove it.
1627
Thomas Heller68daeb02008-10-30 20:29:54 +00001628- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
1629
Benjamin Petersonaf956f12008-10-22 21:19:41 +00001630- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
1631 debugging.
1632
Benjamin Peterson3e808612008-10-21 22:28:54 +00001633- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
1634 inspect.getargvalues.
1635
Georg Brandl4aef7032008-11-07 08:56:27 +00001636- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
1637
Martin v. Löwis74013d62008-10-06 15:17:35 +00001638- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
1639 to claiming it is Mature.
1640
Brett Cannon7e17a762008-10-06 22:47:18 +00001641Build
1642-----
1643
Matthias Klose5b377472009-04-05 22:20:45 +00001644- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
1645
1646- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
1647
Martin v. Löwis49ae6122008-11-07 18:54:47 +00001648- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
1649
Martin v. Löwise55ab5e2008-11-06 17:29:54 +00001650- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
1651
Martin v. Löwis3f3ccbe2008-10-17 13:43:58 +00001652- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
1653
Martin v. Löwisa6474662008-10-13 11:28:58 +00001654- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
1655
Brett Cannon7e17a762008-10-06 22:47:18 +00001656- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
1657
Martin v. Löwis7f08c1f2008-11-04 20:43:31 +00001658- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
1659
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc38e46fc2008-10-14 22:00:06 +00001660C-API
1661-----
1662
1663- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
1664 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
1665
Benjamin Peterson9e233a52008-11-24 04:19:49 +00001666Extension Modules
1667-----------------
1668
Martin v. Löwis1d8592b2008-12-01 04:49:40 +00001669- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
1670
Benjamin Peterson9e233a52008-11-24 04:19:49 +00001671- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
1672
Barry Warsawa5a38c52008-10-02 03:08:34 +00001673
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001674What's New in Python 2.6 final
1675==============================
1676
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00001677*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001678
1679Core and Builtins
1680-----------------
1681
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00001682- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
1683 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
1684
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00001685- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
1686 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
1687
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00001688- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
1689
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001690Library
1691-------
1692
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00001693- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
1694 true singleton object.
1695
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00001696- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
1697 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
1698 into a float.
1699
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00001700- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
1701
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00001702- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
1703 sizes.
1704
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00001705- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
1706
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00001707- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
1708 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
1709
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001710Build
1711-----
1712
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00001713- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
1714 installer.
1715
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001716- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
1717
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001718
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001719What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
1720=============================================
1721
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00001722*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001723
1724Core and Builtins
1725-----------------
1726
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001727Extension Modules
1728-----------------
1729
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00001730- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
1731 segfault as a result.
1732
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001733- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
1734 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001735
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00001736Tools/Demos
1737-----------
1738
1739- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Misc/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
1740 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
1741 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
1742 are caught and silenced.
1743
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00001744Build
1745-----
1746
1747- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
1748 C runtime in the Windows installer.
1749
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001750
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001751What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
1752=============================================
1753
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00001754*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001755
1756Core and Builtins
1757-----------------
1758
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00001759- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
1760
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00001761- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
1762 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
1763 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
1764 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
1765 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
1766 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
1767 64bit values.
1768
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00001769- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
1770 error.
1771
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00001772- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
1773 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
1774 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
1775 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
1776
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00001777- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
1778 a unicode argument.
1779
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001780- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
1781
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001782- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001783 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001784 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
1785
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001786- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00001787 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
1788 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
1789 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
1790 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
1791 type object.
1792
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00001793- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
1794
1795- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
1796
1797- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
1798
1799- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
1800
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00001801- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
1802 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
1803
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00001804- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
1805 ``__delslice__``.
1806
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00001807- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
1808 library targets in the Makefile.
1809
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00001810- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
1811 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
1812 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
1813
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00001814C-API
1815-----
1816
1817- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
1818
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001819Library
1820-------
1821
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00001822- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
1823 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
1824
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00001825- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
1826
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00001827- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
1828
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001829- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
1830 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
1831 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
1832
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00001833- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
1834
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001835- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00001836 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
1837
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00001838- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
1839
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00001840- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
1841
1842- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00001843
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00001844- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
1845 its symbolic link.
1846
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001847- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
1848
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00001849- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
1850 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
1851 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
1852
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00001853- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
1854 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
1855
1856- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00001857
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00001858- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
1859 path to the Python binary.
1860
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00001861- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
1862 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
1863 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
1864 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
1865
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00001866- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
1867
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001868- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
1869
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00001870- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
1871
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00001872- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
1873
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001874- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
1875 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00001876
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00001877- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
1878 non-integer floating point number.
1879
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001880- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00001881 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
1882
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00001883Extension Modules
1884-----------------
1885
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00001886- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
1887 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
1888 without limit.
1889
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00001890- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
1891 exploitation of poor argument checking.
1892
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00001893- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
1894
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00001895- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
1896 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
1897
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00001898- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
1899 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
1900 threads/processes.
1901
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00001902Tests
1903-----
1904
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001905- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
1906 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
1907 that expected warning messages are being reported.
1908
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00001909- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
1910
1911- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00001912
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00001913Build
1914-----
1915
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00001916- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
1917
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00001918- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
1919 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
1920
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00001921- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
1922
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00001923- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00001924 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00001925
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001926
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001927What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
1928================================
1929
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00001930*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001931
1932Core and Builtins
1933-----------------
1934
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00001935- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
1936 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
1937 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
1938 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
1939 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
1940 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
1941 default.
1942
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00001943- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
1944 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
1945
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00001946- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
1947 value again.
1948
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00001949- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
1950 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
1951 and introducing s*.
1952
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00001953- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
1954 object was stored in the freelist.
1955
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00001956- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
1957 ValueError consistently across platforms.
1958
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00001959- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
1960 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
1961 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
1962
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00001963- Apply security patches from Apple.
1964
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00001965- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
1966 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
1967
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00001968- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
1969 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
1970
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00001971- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
1972 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
1973 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
1974
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00001975- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
1976 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
1977 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
1978 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
1979 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
1980 failed have been fixed.
1981
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001982Library
1983-------
1984
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00001985- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
1986
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00001987- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
1988 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
1989
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00001990- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
1991 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
1992 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
1993
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00001994- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
1995 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
1996 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
1997 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
1998 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
1999 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
2000
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00002001- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
2002 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
2003
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00002004- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
2005
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00002006- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
2007
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00002008- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
2009
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00002010- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
2011 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
2012
Jesus Cea585ad8a2009-07-02 15:37:21 +00002013- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00002014 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
2015
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00002016- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
2017 in a redirect.
2018
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00002019- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00002020 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00002021
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00002022- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
2023 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
2024
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00002025- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
2026 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
2027 regular expression.
2028
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00002029- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
2030 thread-safe.
2031
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00002032- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
2033 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
2034 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
2035
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00002036- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
2037
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00002038- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
2039 menu entries were not deleted.
2040
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00002041- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
2042 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
2043
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00002044- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
2045 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
2046
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00002047- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
2048 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
2049 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
2050
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00002051- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
2052 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
2053 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
2054
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00002055- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
2056 the reload() built-in has been removed.
2057
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00002058- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00002059 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00002060 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
2061 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
2062 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
2063 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
2064 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00002065
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00002066- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
2067 raised an AttributeError.
2068
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00002069- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00002070 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
2071 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00002072
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00002073- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
2074 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
2075
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00002076- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
2077
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00002078- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
2079 on a closed shelf.
2080
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00002081- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
2082
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002083- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
2084
2085- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
2086 invalid arguments.
2087
2088- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
2089 with None arguments.
2090
2091- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
2092 configuration files.
2093
2094- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
2095
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00002096- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
2097 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
2098 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
2099
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00002100- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
2101 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
2102 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
2103
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00002104Build
2105-----
2106
2107- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
2108
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00002109Documentation
2110-------------
2111
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00002112- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
2113 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
2114
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00002115- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
2116 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
2117 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
2118 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
2119
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002120
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00002121What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
2122================================
2123
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002124*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
2125
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00002126Core and Builtins
2127-----------------
2128
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00002129- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
2130 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
2131 an integer using operator.index().
2132
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00002133- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
2134 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
2135
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00002136- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
2137 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
2138
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00002139- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
2140 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
2141 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
2142
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00002143- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
2144 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
2145 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
2146 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
2147 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
2148 level.
2149
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00002150- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
2151 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
2152 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
2153 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
2154 all imports from that module to fail.
2155
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00002156- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
2157 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
2158 new-style classes.
2159
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00002160- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
2161 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
2162 another file in sys.stdout.
2163
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00002164- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
2165 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
2166 another thread's dictionary.
2167
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00002168- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
2169 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
2170 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
2171 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
2172 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
2173 10, -1).
2174
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002175- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
2176 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
2177 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00002178
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002179- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
2180 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
2181 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00002182
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002183Library
2184-------
2185
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00002186- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
2187 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
2188 error when they failed.
2189
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00002190- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
2191
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00002192- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
2193
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00002194- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
2195
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00002196- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
2197
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002198- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
2199 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
2200
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002201- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002202
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00002203- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
2204 a valid dlerror() message.
2205
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00002206- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
2207 incomplete structure was created.
2208
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00002209- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
2210
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00002211- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
2212
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002213- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00002214
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002215- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
2216 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002217 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002218 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
2219 merged into trunk.
2220
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00002221- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
2222
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002223- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
2224
2225- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
2226
2227- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
2228 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002229 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002230
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002231- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002232 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00002233
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00002234- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
2235 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
2236
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002237- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
2238 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
2239
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00002240- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
2241 interrupted by a signal.
2242
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002243- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00002244 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
2245 Prevents a deadlock.
2246
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00002247- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
2248 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
2249 default https port (443).
2250
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00002251- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
2252 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
2253 if the new process uses the threading module.
2254
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00002255Tests
2256-----
2257
2258- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
2259 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
2260 have been added to test_warnings.
2261
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00002262Build
2263-----
2264
2265- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
2266
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002267
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002268Documentation
2269-------------
2270
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00002271- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00002272 Python 3.0.
2273
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00002274- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
2275
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002276- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2277 Python 3.0.
2278
2279- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2280 Python 3.0.
2281
2282
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002283What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
2284================================
2285
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00002286*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002287
2288Core and Builtins
2289-----------------
2290
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00002291- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
2292 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
2293 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
2294 bus error.
2295
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00002296- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
2297 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
2298
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00002299- Add future_builtins.ascii().
2300
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00002301- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00002302 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00002303
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00002304- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
2305
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00002306- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
2307
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00002308- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
2309
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00002310- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
2311
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002312- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
2313 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
2314 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
2315 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00002316
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00002317- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
2318
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002319- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
2320 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00002321
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002322- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
2323 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00002324
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002325- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
2326 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
2327 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00002328
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00002329- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
2330 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
2331 can't be triggered from Python code.
2332
2333
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002334Extension Modules
2335-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00002336- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002337
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00002338- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
2339
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00002340- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00002341
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00002342- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
2343 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
2344
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00002345- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
2346 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
2347
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00002348- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
2349 weakref.proxy.
2350
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002351- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
2352 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00002353
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002354- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00002355
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00002356- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00002357 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
2358 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00002359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002360- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
2361 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
2362 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00002363
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00002364- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
2365 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
2366 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
2367
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002368- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00002369
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00002370- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00002371
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002372Library
2373-------
2374
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00002375- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
2376 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
2377
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00002378- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
2379
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00002380- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
2381 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
2382 sense).
2383
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00002384- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
2385
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00002386- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
2387 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
2388 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
2389 the patch.
2390
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002391- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
2392 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
2393 the patch).
2394
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00002395- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
2396 os.uname exists.
2397
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00002398- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2399
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00002400- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2401
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00002402- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
2403 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
2404 pointer-like object.
2405
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00002406- Added the ast module.
2407
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002408- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00002409
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00002410- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
2411 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
2412
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00002413- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
2414 to errno.
2415
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002416- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00002417
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002418- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00002419 msilib.Record objects.
2420
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00002421- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
2422 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
2423
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00002424- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
2425 in Python 3.0.
2426
2427- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
2428 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00002429
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00002430- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
2431 False boolean value now.
2432
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00002433- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
2434 transfers.
2435
2436- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
2437 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00002438
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00002439- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
2440 when the TarFile is closed.
2441
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00002442- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
2443 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
2444 an exception.
2445
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00002446- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
2447 otherwise be produced.
2448
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00002449- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
2450 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
2451
2452- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
2453 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
2454
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00002455- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
2456 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
2457 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
2458
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00002459- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
2460
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002461- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00002462 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
2463 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
2464 'm' or 'c'.
2465
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00002466- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2467
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002468- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
2469 removal in Python 3.0.
2470
2471- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2472 3.0.
2473
2474- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2475 3.0.
2476
2477- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2478 3.0.
2479
2480- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00002481 Python 3.0.
2482
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00002483- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
2484 Python 3.0.
2485
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002486- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2487 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00002488
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002489- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2490 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00002491
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002492- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2493 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00002494
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002495- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2496 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00002497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002498- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00002499 Python 3.0.
2500
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002501- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2502 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00002503
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002504- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2505 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00002506
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002507- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2508 3.0.
2509
2510- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
2511 removal in Python 3.0.
2512
2513- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2514 3.0.
2515
2516- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2517 3.0.
2518
2519- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
2520 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002521
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002522- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
2523 removal in Python 3.0.
2524
2525- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00002526 Python 3.0.
2527
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002528- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2529 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00002530
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00002531- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2532 Python 3.0.
2533
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00002534- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2535 Python 3.0.
2536
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002537- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00002538
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00002539- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2540
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00002541- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2542
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00002543- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
2544
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00002545- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002547- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
2548 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
2549 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00002550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002551- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
2552 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00002553
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00002554- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2555
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002556- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2557 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00002558
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00002559- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2560
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00002561- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2562
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00002563- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2564
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00002565- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2566
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00002567- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2568
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002569- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
2570 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00002571
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00002572- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2573
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00002574- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2575
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00002576- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
2577 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
2578 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
2579 OverflowError.
2580
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00002581- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002583- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2584 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00002585
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00002586- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2587
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00002588- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2589
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00002590- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2591
2592- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00002593
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002594- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2595
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00002596- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
2597
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00002598- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
2599
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00002600- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00002601
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002602- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
2603 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00002604
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002605- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002606 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
2607 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
2608 of Python.
2609
2610- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
2611 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
2612
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00002613- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
2614 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00002615
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002616Build
2617-----
2618
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00002619- 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 +00002620
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00002621- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
2622
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00002623- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
2624
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002625- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
2626 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002627 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002628
2629 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
2630
2631 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
2632
2633 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
2634
2635 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
2636
2637 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
2638
2639 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
2640
2641
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002642C API
2643-----
2644
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00002645- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
2646
2647- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002648
2649- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
2650 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
2651 PyString names.
2652
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00002653
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002654What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002655=================================
2656
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00002657*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002658
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002659Core and builtins
2660-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002661
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00002662- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
2663
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002664- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
2665 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00002666
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002667- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
2668 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00002669
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002670- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00002671
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00002672Extension Modules
2673-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002674
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002675- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
2676 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00002677
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00002678- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
2679
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002680- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
2681 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002682
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002683- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
2684 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002686- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
2687 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00002688
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002689- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
2690 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
2691 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
2692 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
2693 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
2694 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
2695 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
2696 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00002697
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002698Library
2699-------
2700
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00002701- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2702
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002703- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
2704 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00002705
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00002706- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
2707
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002708- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
2709 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00002710
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00002711- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
2712 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
2713 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
2714
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002715- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002716 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002717
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00002718- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00002719 reference to themselves.
2720
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00002721- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
2722 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
2723 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00002724
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00002725- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
2726 1900-01-01.
2727
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00002728- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
2729 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
2730
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00002731- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
2732 now implemented in C for better performance.
2733
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002734- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
2735 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
2736 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00002737
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002738- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00002739 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
2740 build documentation for more information.
2741
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00002742- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
2743 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
2744 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
2745 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
2746
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00002747- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
2748 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
2749 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
2750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002751- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
2752 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
2753 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
2754 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00002755
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002756Tests
2757-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002758
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002759- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
2760 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
2761 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
2762 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
2763 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
2764 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
2765 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
2766 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
2767 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
2768 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
2769 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
2770 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
2771 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
2772 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
2773 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
2774 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
2775 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
2776 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
2777 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
2778 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
2779
2780 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
2781 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
2782 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
2783 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
2784 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
2785 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
2786 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
2787 access to the underlying socket used.
2788
2789 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
2790 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
2791 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002792
2793 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002794 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002795 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
2796 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
2797
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002798 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
2799 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002800
2801Build
2802-----
2803
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00002804- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
2805
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00002806- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
2807 gcc is used as compiler.
2808
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002809- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002810 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002811
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002812C API
2813-----
2814
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002815- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
2816 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
2817 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
2818 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002819
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00002820- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00002821
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002822
2823What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
2824=================================
2825
2826*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
2827
2828Core and builtins
2829-----------------
2830
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002831- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
2832 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
2833 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00002834
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00002835- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
2836 cannot be executed.
2837
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00002838- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
2839 reference on the outer class name.
2840
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002841- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002842 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002843
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002844- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
2845 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00002846
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00002847- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002848
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00002849- Added backport of bytearray type.
2850
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002851- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
2852
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002853- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002854 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
2855 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
2856 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
2857 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
2858 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002859
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00002860- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
2861
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002862- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
2863 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00002864
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00002865- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002866
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00002867- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
2868
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002869- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
2870 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00002871
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002872- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
2873 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00002874
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002875- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00002876 exception instances.
2877
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002878- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002879 doesn't derive from BaseException.
2880
2881- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
2882 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002883
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00002884- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
2885 memory usage in some circumstances.
2886
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002887- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
2888 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
2889 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00002890
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00002891- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
2892
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002893- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00002894 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
2895 longer passed.
2896
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00002897- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
2898
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002899- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
2900 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
2901 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00002902
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002903- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
2904 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002905
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00002906- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
2907
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00002908Extension Modules
2909-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00002910
2911- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
2912
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002913Library
2914-------
2915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002916- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
2917 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002918
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002919- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
2920 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
2921 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002922
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002923- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
2924 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002926- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
2927 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
2928 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00002929
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002930- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
2931 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00002932
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00002933- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
2934
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00002935- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
2936 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
2937 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
2938
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00002939- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
2940
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00002941- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
2942 advertised in the docs.
2943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002944- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00002945
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002946- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00002947
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002948- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
2949 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00002950
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00002951- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
2952 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
2953
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002954- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
2955 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00002956 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
2957 information as well.
2958
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002959- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
2960 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00002961
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002962- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
2963 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00002964
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002965- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
2966 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
2967 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00002968
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00002969- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
2970 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
2971 strftime.
2972
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00002973- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002974 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
2975 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00002976
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00002977- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
2978 correctly under win32
2979
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002980- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00002981
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00002982- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002983 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
2984 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
2985 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00002986
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00002987- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
2988 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
2989
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002990- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
2991 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00002992
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002993- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
2994 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
2995 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00002996
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002997- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00002998 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
2999
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00003000- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
3001 from 't' to '?'.
3002
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00003003- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
3004 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003005 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
3006 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
3007 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00003008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003009- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
3010 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00003011
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00003012Tests
3013-----
3014
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003015- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
3016 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00003017
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00003018- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
3019
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00003020- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
3021
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00003022- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
3023
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00003024- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
3025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003026- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
3027 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00003028
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00003029- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
3030
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00003031- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
3032
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003033- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
3034 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00003035
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00003036- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
3037
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00003038- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
3039
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00003040- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
3041 permission to create files in the root directory.
3042
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00003043Build
3044-----
3045
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00003046- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
3047
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003048- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
3049 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00003050
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00003051- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003052
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003053C API
3054-----
3055
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003056- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003057 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
3058
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003059
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00003060What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
3061=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003062
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00003063*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003064
3065Core and builtins
3066-----------------
3067
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00003068- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00003069 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00003070
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00003071- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
3072
3073- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00003074
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003075- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00003076 issue 215555 for a discussion.
3077
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00003078- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
3079 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
3080 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
3081 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
3082 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
3083 module is:
3084 from future_builtins import hex, oct
3085
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00003086- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
3087 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
3088 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
3089 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
3090 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
3091 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
3092
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00003093- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
3094 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
3095 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
3096 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
3097 PyObject_Format().
3098
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003099- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
3100 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
3101 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00003102
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003103- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003104 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
3105 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00003106
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003107- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
3108 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00003109
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003110- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
3111 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
3112 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00003113
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003114- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
3115 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
3116 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00003117
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00003118- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
3119 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
3120
Georg Brandl5a7eca12010-03-21 19:29:04 +00003121- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003122 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00003123
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003124- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
3125 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00003126 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
3127
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003128- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
3129 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
3130 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00003131
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003132- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
3133 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00003134
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003135- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
3136 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00003137
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003138- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
3139 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00003140
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003141- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
3142 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00003143
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003144- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
3145 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
3146 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00003147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003148- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
3149 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
3150 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
3151 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00003152
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00003153- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
3154 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
3155 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
3156
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003157- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00003158 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
3159 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
3160
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003161- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00003162 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
3163 support.
3164
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00003165- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
3166 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
3167
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00003168- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
3169
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003170- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00003171 added.
3172
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00003173- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
3174 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
3175
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003176- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
3177 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00003178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003179- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
3180 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
3181 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00003182
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003183- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
3184 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00003185
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00003186- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
3187 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00003188
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00003189- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
3190
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003191- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
3192 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
3193 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00003194
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003195- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
3196 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
3197 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00003198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003199- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00003200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003201- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
3202 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00003203
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003204- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003205 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
3206 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003207
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003208- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
3209 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
3210 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
3211 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00003212
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003213- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00003214
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003215- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
3216 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00003217
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003218- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
3219 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00003220
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00003221- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00003222 SystemError.
3223
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00003224- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
3225 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
3226 __package__ attribute.
3227
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003228- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
3229 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
3230 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00003231
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00003232- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
3233
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003234- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00003235 attribute of an empty cell object.
3236
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003237- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
3238 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00003239
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003240- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
3241 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
3242 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
3243 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00003244
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003245- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
3246 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
3247 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00003248
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00003249- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
3250
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00003251- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
3252
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00003253- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
3254
Georg Brandl5a7eca12010-03-21 19:29:04 +00003255- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003256 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
3257 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00003258
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003259- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
3260 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
3261 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
3262 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
3263 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
3264 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00003265
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003266- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
3267 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
3268 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
3269 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
3270 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00003271
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003272- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
3273 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
3274 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00003275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003276- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
3277 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00003278
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003279- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003280 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
3281 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
3282 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
3283 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
3284 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003285
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003286- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
3287 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00003288
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00003289- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
3290 with %G.
3291
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003292- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
3293 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00003294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003295- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00003296
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003297- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00003298
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003299- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003300 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
3301 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003302
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00003303- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
3304 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
3305
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00003306- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
3307 calls.
3308
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003309- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003310 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
3311 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003312
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00003313- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
3314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003315- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl5a7eca12010-03-21 19:29:04 +00003316 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00003317
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003318- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00003319 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
3320
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00003321- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
3322
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00003323- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
3324 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
3325 remaining characters.
3326
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00003327- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
3328 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
3329
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00003330- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
3331
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003332- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
3333 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
3334 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
3335 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
3336 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00003337 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
3338 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003340- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
3341 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
3342 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
3343 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
3344 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00003345
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003346- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
3347 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
3348 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00003349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003350- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
3351 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00003352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003353- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
3354 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
3355 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00003356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003357- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
3358 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00003359
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00003360- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
3361
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00003362- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
3363 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
3364
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003365- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003366 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
3367 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
3368 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003369
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00003370- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
3371 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
3372
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003373- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
3374 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00003375
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003376- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
3377 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
3378 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00003379
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003380- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003381 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
3382 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003383
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003384- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
3385 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003386 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
3387 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003388
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003389- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
3390 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00003391
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003392- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
3393 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00003394
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00003395- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
3396 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
3397
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003398- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
3399 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
3400 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00003401
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003402- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
3403 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00003404
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003405- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
3406 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00003407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003408- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
3409 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
3410 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00003411
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00003412- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
3413 frame's thread state.
3414
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003415- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
3416 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00003417
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003418- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
3419 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00003420
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003421- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
3422 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00003423
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003424- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
3425 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00003426
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003427- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
3428 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00003429
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00003430- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
3431
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00003432- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
3433
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00003434- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
3435
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003436- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
3437 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00003438
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003439- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00003440
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00003441- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
3442 again, no longer the posix error code.
3443
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00003444- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
3445 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
3446
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003447- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
3448 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00003449
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00003450- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
3451 embedded in the string to convert.
3452
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00003453- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
3454 recognized and rejected.
3455
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003456- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
3457
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003458- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
3459 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
3460 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00003461
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00003462- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
3463 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
3464
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003465- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003466 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
3467 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003468
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003469- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
3470 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
3471 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00003472
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00003473- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
3474
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00003475- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
3476
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00003477- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
3478
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003479- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
3480 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
3481 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00003482
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00003483- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
3484 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
3485 'exceptions'.
3486
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00003487- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
3488 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
3489
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00003490- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
3491 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
3492
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00003493- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
3494
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00003495- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
3496
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00003497- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
3498 head is the original string if sep was not found.
3499
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003500- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003501 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
3502 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
3503 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003504
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003505- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00003506
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003507- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
3508 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003509
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003510- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
3511 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00003512
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003513- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00003514 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
3515 it actually exited.
3516
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003517
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003518Library
3519-------
3520
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003521- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00003522
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00003523- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
3524
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00003525- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
3526
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003527- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
3528 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00003529
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003530- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00003531
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003532- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
3533 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
3534 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00003535
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003536- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
3537 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00003538
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003539- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00003540 (ignore-case)
3541
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00003542- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
3543 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
3544 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
3545 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
3546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003547- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
3548 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00003549
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003550- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
3551 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00003552
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00003553- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
3554 pickled.
3555
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00003556- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
3557 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
3558
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00003559- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
3560 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
3561 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
3562
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003563- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
3564 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00003565
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003566- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
3567 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
3568 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00003569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003570- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
3571 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00003572
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003573- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
3574 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00003575
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003576- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
3577 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
3578 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
3579 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00003580
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003581- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
3582 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003583 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
3584
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00003585- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
3586
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003587- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
3588 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00003589
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003590- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00003591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003592- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
3593 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003594
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003595- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
3596 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003597
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003598- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
3599 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003600
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003601- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
3602 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003604- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
3605 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
3606 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00003607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003608- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
3609 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00003610
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003611- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
3612 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00003613
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003614- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
3615 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00003616
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003617- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
3618 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00003619
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003620- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
3621 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00003622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003623- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
3624 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00003625
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00003626- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
3627 with extended local headers.
3628
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003629- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
3630 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00003631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003632- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00003633 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
3634 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
3635
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003636- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
3637 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00003638
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003639- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
3640 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00003641
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003642- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
3643 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00003644
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003645- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
3646 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00003647
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003648- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
3649 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00003650
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003651- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003652 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003653 Textbox.gather().
3654
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003655- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
3656 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00003657 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
3658 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003659
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00003660- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
3661 that array types do not live longer than needed.
3662
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003663- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
3664 and when creating a recursive instance.
3665
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003666- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
3667 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
3668 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00003669
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00003670- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
3671 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
3672 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
3673
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003674- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
3675 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00003676
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003677- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00003678 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
3679
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003680- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00003681 good for long regular expression matches.
3682
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003683- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
3684 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00003685
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00003686- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
3687 the current context.
3688
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00003689- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
3690 zipfile module.
3691
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00003692- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
3693
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003694- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
3695 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00003696
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00003697- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
3698
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00003699- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
3700
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003701- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
3702 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00003703
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00003704- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
3705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003706- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
3707 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00003708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003709- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
3710 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00003711
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00003712- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
3713
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00003714- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
3715 Tcl objects.
3716
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00003717- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
3718
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003719- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
3720 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
3721 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
3722 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00003723
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003724- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
3725 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00003726
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003727- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
3728 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00003729
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003730- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
3731 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00003732
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003733- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
3734 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00003735
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00003736- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
3737 method used universal newlines.
3738
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00003739- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
3740 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
3741
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00003742- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
3743 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
3744
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00003745- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
3746 files are updated.
3747
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003748- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
3749 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003750
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00003751- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
3752 configured with --with-system-ffi.
3753
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003754- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003755 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003756
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00003757- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
3758
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003759- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
3760 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
3761 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00003762
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003763- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
3764 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00003765
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00003766- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00003767
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00003768- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
3769
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003770- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
3771 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00003772
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00003773- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
3774 to be orderable to properly represent them.
3775
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00003776- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
3777
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00003778- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
3779
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003780- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
3781 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
3782 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00003783
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00003784- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
3785 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
3786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003787- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
3788 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00003789
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003790- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
3791 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00003792
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00003793- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
3794
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00003795- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
3796
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00003797- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
3798 syllables.
3799
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003800- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
3801 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00003802
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00003803- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
3804
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00003805- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
3806 represent the result in a single character.
3807
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00003808- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
3809
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00003810- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
3811
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00003812- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
3813 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
3814 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
3815
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00003816- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
3817
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003818- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
3819 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00003820
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003821- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
3822 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
3823 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00003824
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003825- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
3826 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
3827 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00003828
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003829- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003830 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
3831 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003832
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003833- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
3834 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00003835
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003836- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
3837 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00003838
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00003839- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3840
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00003841- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3842
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003843- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
3844 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
3845 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00003846
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00003847- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3848
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00003849- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3850
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00003851- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
3852 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
3853
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00003854- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
3855
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00003856- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
3857
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00003858- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
3859
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003860- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
3861 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00003862
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003863- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
3864 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00003865
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00003866- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
3867 the directories).
3868
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00003869- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
3870 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
3871 injecting HTML into the error page.
3872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003873- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
3874 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00003875
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003876- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
3877 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003878
3879- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
3880
3881- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
3882
3883- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
3884 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
3885 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
3886
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00003887- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
3888 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
3889 ".cpp" too.
3890
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00003891- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003892 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
3893 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
3894 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00003895
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003896- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
3897 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00003898
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003899- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
3900 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00003901
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00003902- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
3903 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
3904 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
3905 closes patch #723312.
3906
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003907- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
3908 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00003909 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00003910
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00003911- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
3912
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00003913- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
3914 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
3915
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00003916- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
3917
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003918- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
3919 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00003920 directories.
3921
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00003922- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
3923 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
3924 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
3925 trying Mozilla variants.
3926
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00003927- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
3928
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00003929- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
3930 initialization failed.
3931
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00003932- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003933 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
3934 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00003935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003936- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
3937 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
3938 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00003939
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003940- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
3941 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00003942 correctly now.
3943
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00003944- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
3945
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003946- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
3947 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00003948
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00003949- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
3950
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003951- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
3952 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
3953 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00003954
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003955- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
3956 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
3957 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
3958 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00003959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003960- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
3961 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
3962 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00003963
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00003964- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
3965 whitespace while wrapping.
3966
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00003967- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003968 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
3969 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00003970
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003971- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
3972 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
3973 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00003974
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00003975- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
3976 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
3977
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003978- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
3979 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00003980
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00003981- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
3982 concatenation in robotparser.
3983
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00003984- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003985 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
3986 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00003987
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00003988- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
3989 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
3990
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00003991- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
3992
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003993- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
3994 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
3995 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00003996
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003997- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
3998 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
3999 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00004000
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004001- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
4002 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00004003 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00004004
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00004005- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
4006 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
4007
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00004008- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
4009 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
4010
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00004011- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
4012 returned string up to the first NUL character.
4013
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00004014- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
4015
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00004016- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
4017
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004018- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
4019 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
4020 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00004021
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00004022- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
4023
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004024- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
4025 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
4026 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
4027 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
4028 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
4029 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00004030
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004031- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
4032 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00004033
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00004034- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
4035 comprehensive test suite for the module.
4036
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00004037- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
4038 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
4039
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004040- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
4041 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
4042 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00004043
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004044- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00004045 in HTMLParser.
4046
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00004047- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
4048 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
4049
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00004050- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
4051
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00004052- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
4053
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00004054- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
4055
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00004056- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00004057
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00004058- Added itertools.izip_longest().
4059
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004060- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
4061 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00004062
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00004063- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
4064
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00004065- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
4066 doesn't exist.
4067
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00004068- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
4069
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00004070- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
4071
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004072- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00004073
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004074- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
4075 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00004076
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004077- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
4078 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00004079
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004080- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
4081 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00004082
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00004083- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004084 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00004085
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00004086- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
4087 iso8859_16.
4088
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004089- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
4090 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
4091 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
4092 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00004093
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004094- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
4095
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00004096- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
4097 directories.
4098
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00004099- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
4100
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004101- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
4102 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00004103
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004104- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004105 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004106
4107- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004108 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004109
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004110- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004111
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004112- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
4113 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00004114
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00004115- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
4116
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00004117- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
4118 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
4119 parameterless foreign function calls work.
4120
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00004121- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
4122
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00004123- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
4124 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
4125 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
4126
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00004127- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
4128 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
4129
4130- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
4131 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
4132
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004133- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
4134 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
4135 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00004136
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004137- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
4138 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00004139
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00004140- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
4141
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004142- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
4143 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00004144
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004145- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
4146 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00004147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004148- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
4149 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00004150
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004151- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
4152 separated lists read from logging config files.
4153
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004154- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
4155 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
4156 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004157
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004158- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
4159 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00004160
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00004161- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
4162
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004163- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
4164 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00004165
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00004166- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
4167
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00004168- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
4169
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004170- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
4171 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00004172
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00004173- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
4174 regular files.
4175
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00004176- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
4177
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004178- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
4179 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00004180
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004181- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
4182 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00004183
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00004184- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
4185 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
4186
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00004187- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
4188 file name mangling.
4189
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004190- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
4191 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00004192
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00004193- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
4194
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004195- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00004196 HTTPConnection.request().
4197
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00004198- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
4199 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
4200 objects.
4201
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004202- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
4203 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
4204 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00004205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004206- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
4207 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
4208 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00004209
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004210- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00004211
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004212- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00004213
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00004214- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
4215
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004216- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004217 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004218
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00004219- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
4220
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00004221- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
4222 GNU modes.
4223
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00004224- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl5a7eca12010-03-21 19:29:04 +00004225 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00004226 opcode.
4227
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00004228- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
4229 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
4230 statement (bug #1586513).
4231
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004232- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
4233 correctly.
4234
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00004235- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
4236
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004237- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
4238 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00004239
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00004240- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
4241 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
4242 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
4243
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004244- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
4245 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
4246 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00004247
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004248- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
4249 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00004250
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00004251- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
4252
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00004253- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
4254
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004255- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
4256 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00004257
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004258- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
4259 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00004260
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00004261- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
4262 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
4263
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00004264- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
4265 with a slash.
4266
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00004267- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
4268 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
4269
Georg Brandlf18d5ce2009-10-27 14:29:22 +00004270- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004271 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00004272
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00004273- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
4274 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
4275 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
4276
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004277- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
4278 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00004279
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004280- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
4281 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00004282
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004283- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
4284 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00004285
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00004286- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
4287
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004288- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00004289 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004290
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004291- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
4292 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00004293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004294- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
4295 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004296
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00004297- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
4298
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004299- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
4300 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00004301
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004302- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
4303 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
4304 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004305
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004306- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
4307 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
4308 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00004309
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004310- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
4311 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
4312 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
4313 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00004314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004315- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004316 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
4317 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004318 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
4319 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
4320 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004321
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004322- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
4323 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004324
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004325Extension Modules
4326-----------------
4327
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004328- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00004329
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00004330- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
4331
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00004332- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
4333
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004334- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00004335
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004336- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
4337 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00004338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004339- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
4340 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00004341
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004342- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
4343 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00004344
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00004345- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
4346
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00004347- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
4348
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004349- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
4350 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004351
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00004352- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
4353
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004354- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
4355 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00004356
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00004357- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
4358
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004359- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
4360 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00004361
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004362- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00004363 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
4364 parameter.
4365
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004366- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
4367 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
4368 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
4369 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00004370
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004371- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
4372 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00004373
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004374- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
4375 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00004376
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004377- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
4378 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
4379 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00004380
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004381- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
4382 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00004383
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00004384- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
4385
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00004386- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
4387
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004388- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
4389 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
4390 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00004391
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004392- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
4393 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00004394
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00004395- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
4396
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00004397- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
4398
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004399- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
4400 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
4401 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
4402 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00004403
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00004404- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
4405 get_completion_type to readline.
4406
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00004407- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
4408 structure.
4409
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00004410- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4411
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00004412- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
4413
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00004414- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
4415 intended for RECNO databases.
4416
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004417- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004418 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
4419 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
4420 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
4421 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
4422 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
4423 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004424
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00004425- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
4426
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00004427- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
4428
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004429- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
4430 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
4431 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
4432 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
4433 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00004434
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00004435- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
4436 error in spite of a succesful compression.
4437
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00004438- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
4439 of Py_ssize_t.
4440
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00004441- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
4442 fractional times. With unittest.
4443
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004444- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
4445 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
4446 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00004447
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00004448- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
4449
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00004450- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
4451
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00004452- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
4453
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00004454- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
4455
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004456- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl5a7eca12010-03-21 19:29:04 +00004457 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00004458
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004459- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
4460 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00004461
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004462- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
4463 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00004464
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00004465- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
4466 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
4467
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004468- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
4469 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
4470 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00004471
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00004472- Speed up function calls into the math module.
4473
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00004474- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
4475 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
4476 does.
4477
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00004478- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
4479
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00004480- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
4481
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00004482- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
4483
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00004484- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
4485
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00004486- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
4487 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
4488
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00004489- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
4490 datetime's strftime function.
4491
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00004492- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
4493
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00004494- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
4495
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004496- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
4497 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00004498
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00004499- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
4500
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004501- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004502 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
4503 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004504
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004505- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
4506 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00004507
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004508- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004509 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
4510 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004511 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
4512 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00004513 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004514 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004515
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004516- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
4517 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
4518 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
4519 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
4520
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00004521- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
4522 were transposed.
4523
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00004524- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
4525 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00004526
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004527- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
4528 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
4529 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004530
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004531- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
4532
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00004533- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
4534
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00004535- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
4536
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00004537- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004538
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00004539- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
4540 databases without a DBEnv.
4541
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00004542- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
4543
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004544Tests
4545-----
4546
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00004547- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00004548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004549- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
4550 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00004551
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004552- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
4553 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
4554 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00004555
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00004556- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
4557 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00004558
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004559- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
4560 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00004561
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004562- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
4563 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
4564 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00004565
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00004566- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
4567
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004568- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
4569 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
4570 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00004571
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004572- Added some tests for modulefinder.
4573
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00004574- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
4575
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00004576- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
4577 number properly.
4578
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004579- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
4580 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004581
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004582Tools
4583-----
4584
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004585- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
4586 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
4587 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
4588 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00004589
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004590- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
4591 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
4592 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00004593
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00004594- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
4595 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
4596
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004597- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
4598 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004599
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004600- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
4601 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004602
4603- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004604 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
4605 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004606
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004607
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004608Documentation
4609-------------
4610
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004611- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
4612 include new optional delay argument.
4613
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004614- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
4615 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
4616 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004617
4618- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
4619 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
4620
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00004621- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
4622 Python tutorial.
4623
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00004624- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
4625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004626- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
4627 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00004628
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00004629- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
4630 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
4631
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00004632- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
4633 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
4634
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00004635- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
4636
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00004637- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
4638 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
4639
Georg Brandl5a7eca12010-03-21 19:29:04 +00004640- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00004641 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
4642
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00004643- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
4644 docs.
4645
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00004646- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
4647
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00004648- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
4649 string pointed to by its parameter.
4650
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00004651- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
4652
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004653- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004654 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
4655 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
4656 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004657
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004658
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004659Tools/Demos
4660-----------
4661
4662- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004663
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004664- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004665 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
4666 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004667
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004668- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
4669 file not to get reported properly.
4670
4671
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004672Build
4673-----
4674
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004675- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
4676 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
4677 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00004678
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00004679- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
4680 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
4681
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00004682- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
4683
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004684- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004686- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
4687 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
4688 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
4689 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004690
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004691- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
4692 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004693
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00004694- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
4695
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00004696- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
4697 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
4698 without this option!
4699
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00004700- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
4701
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004702- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004703 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
4704 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
4705 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004706
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004707- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
4708 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00004709
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00004710- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
4711
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00004712- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
4713
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004714- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
4715 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00004716
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004717- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
4718 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00004719
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00004720- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
4721 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
4722 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
4723
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00004724- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
4725 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
4726
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00004727- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
4728
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00004729- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
4730
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004731- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
4732 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00004733
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004734- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00004735 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
4736
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004737- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
4738 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00004739
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00004740- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
4741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004742- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00004743
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00004744- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
4745
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00004746- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
4747
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00004748- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004749
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004750- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
4751 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
4752 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00004753
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004754
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004755C API
4756-----
4757
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004758- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
4759 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
4760 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
4761 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00004762
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004763- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
4764 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
4765 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004766
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004767- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004768
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004769- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
4770 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
4771 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004772
4773- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
4774
4775- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
4776 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
4777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004778- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
4779 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
4780 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
4781 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004782
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004783- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
4784 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004785
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004786- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
4787 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
4788 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004789
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004790- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
4791 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004792
4793- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
4794
4795- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
4796
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004797- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
4798
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004799- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
4800
4801- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
4802 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
4803
4804- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
4805 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
4806
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004807- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
4808 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
4809 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004810
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004811- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
4812 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004813
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004814- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
4815 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00004816
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004817
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004818Windows
4819-------
4820
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004821- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
4822 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
4823 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
4824 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00004825
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004826- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
4827 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004828
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00004829- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
4830
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004831
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004832Mac
4833---
4834
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00004835- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4836
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00004837- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4838
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004839- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4840 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
4841 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00004842
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00004843----
4844
4845**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**