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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +00007What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 2?
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-2006*
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12Core and builtins
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Martin v. Löwis0bc2ab92006-04-10 20:28:17 +000015- Patch #837242: id() of any Python object always gives a positive
16 number, which might be a long integer. PyLong_FromVoidPtr and
17 PyLong_AsVoidPtr have been changed accordingly.
18
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +000019- Python on OS X 10.3 and above now uses dlopen() (via dynload_shlib.c)
20 to load extension modules and now provides the dl module. As a result,
21 sys.setdlopenflags() now works correctly on these systems. (SF patch
22 #1454844)
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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000025Extension Modules
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27
Gregory P. Smith7f5b6f42006-04-08 07:10:51 +000028- Fix bsddb.db.DBError derived exceptions so they can be unpickled.
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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000030Library
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Martin v. Löwis17de8ff2006-04-10 15:55:37 +000033- Patch #1467770: Reduce usage of subprocess._active to processes which
34 the application hasn't waited on.
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Martin v. Löwisb04dee92006-04-10 08:34:21 +000036- Patch #1462222: Fix Tix.Grid.
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Neal Norwitza31bf182006-04-09 03:35:43 +000038- Fix exception when doing glob.glob('anything*/')
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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000040Build
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Martin v. Löwis10acfd02006-04-10 12:39:36 +000043- Patch #1429775: Link extension modules with the shared libpython.
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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000045C API
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51Documentation
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Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +000056What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1?
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Anthony Baxterebed3f62006-04-03 15:03:44 +000059*Release date: 05-APR-2006*
Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +000060
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +000061Core and builtins
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63
Martin v. Löwisea62d252006-04-03 10:56:49 +000064- Bug #1421664: sys.stderr.encoding is now set to the same value as
65 sys.stdout.encoding.
66
Neal Norwitz92e212f2006-04-03 04:48:37 +000067- __import__ accepts keyword arguments.
68
Georg Brandlccadf842006-03-31 18:54:53 +000069- Patch #1460496: round() now accepts keyword arguments.
70
Anthony Baxter262c00a2006-03-30 10:53:17 +000071- Fixed bug #1459029 - unicode reprs were double-escaped.
72
Hye-Shik Changd478f342006-03-23 12:32:36 +000073- Patch #1396919: The system scope threads are reenabled on FreeBSD
74 5.4 and later versions.
75
Neal Norwitze98ccf62006-03-23 05:39:47 +000076- Bug #1115379: Compiling a Unicode string with an encoding declaration
77 now gives a SyntaxError.
78
Georg Brandlabd1ff82006-03-18 07:59:59 +000079- Previously, Python code had no easy way to access the contents of a
80 cell object. Now, a ``cell_contents`` attribute has been added
81 (closes patch #1170323).
82
Tim Peterscf79aac2006-03-16 01:14:46 +000083- Patch #1123430: Python's small-object allocator now returns an arena to
84 the system ``free()`` when all memory within an arena becomes unused
85 again. Prior to Python 2.5, arenas (256KB chunks of memory) were never
86 freed. Some applications will see a drop in virtual memory size now,
87 especially long-running applications that, from time to time, temporarily
88 use a large number of small objects. Note that when Python returns an
89 arena to the platform C's ``free()``, there's no guarantee that the
90 platform C will in turn return that memory to the operating system. The
91 effect of the patch is to stop making that impossible, and in tests it
92 appears to be effective at least on Microsoft C and gcc-based systems.
93 Thanks to Evan Jones for hard work and patience.
94
Georg Brandl533ff6f2006-03-08 18:09:27 +000095- Patch #1434038: property() now uses the getter's docstring if there is
96 no "doc" argument given. This makes it possible to legitimately use
97 property() as a decorator to produce a read-only property.
98
Guido van Rossum9aa37ab2006-03-07 18:54:08 +000099- PEP 357, patch 1436368: add an __index__ method to int/long and a matching
100 nb_index slot to the PyNumberMethods struct. The slot is consulted instead
101 of requiring an int or long in slicing and a few other contexts, enabling
102 other objects (e.g. Numeric Python's integers) to be used as slice indices.
103
Neal Norwitz995acdf2006-03-07 05:01:00 +0000104- Fixed various bugs reported by Coverity's Prevent tool.
105
Brett Cannonbf364092006-03-01 04:25:17 +0000106- PEP 352, patch #1104669: Make exceptions new-style objects. Introduced the
107 new exception base class, BaseException, which has a new message attribute.
108 KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit to directly inherit from BaseException now.
109 Raising a string exception now raises a DeprecationWarning.
110
Thomas Woutersfb609f42006-02-28 16:37:25 +0000111- Patch #1438387, PEP 328: relative and absolute imports. Imports can now be
112 explicitly relative, using 'from .module import name' to mean 'from the same
113 package as this module is in. Imports without dots still default to the
114 old relative-then-absolute, unless 'from __future__ import
115 absolute_import' is used.
116
Brett Cannona7446e32006-02-27 23:39:10 +0000117- Properly check if 'warnings' raises an exception (usually when a filter set
118 to "error" is triggered) when raising a warning for raising string
119 exceptions.
120
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000121- CO_GENERATOR_ALLOWED is no longer defined. This behavior is the default.
Neal Norwitz0023a2f2006-02-27 23:24:48 +0000122 The name was removed from Include/code.h.
123
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000124- PEP 308: conditional expressions were added: (x if cond else y).
Neal Norwitzeb651252006-02-27 16:47:12 +0000125
Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +0000126- Patch 1433928:
127 - The copy module now "copies" function objects (as atomic objects).
128 - dict.__getitem__ now looks for a __missing__ hook before raising
129 KeyError.
130
Tim Peters84ef21c2006-02-28 20:39:06 +0000131- PEP 343: with statement implemented. Needs ``from __future__ import
132 with_statement``. Use of 'with' as a variable will generate a warning.
133 Use of 'as' as a variable will also generate a warning (unless it's
Neal Norwitz055ec242006-02-28 20:06:49 +0000134 part of an import statement).
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +0000135 The following objects have __context__ methods:
136 - The built-in file type.
137 - The thread.LockType type.
138 - The following types defined by the threading module:
139 Lock, RLock, Condition, Semaphore, BoundedSemaphore.
140 - The decimal.Context class.
Guido van Rossumc2e20742006-02-27 22:32:47 +0000141
Marc-André Lemburgfe4b34c2006-02-19 15:22:22 +0000142- Fix the encodings package codec search function to only search
143 inside its own package. Fixes problem reported in patch #1433198.
144
145 Note: Codec packages should implement and register their own
146 codec search function. PEP 100 has the details.
147
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000148- PEP 353: Using ssize_t as the index type.
149
Neal Norwitzfc76d632006-01-10 06:03:13 +0000150- Patch #1400181, fix unicode string formatting to not use the locale.
151 This is how string objects work. u'%f' could use , instead of .
152 for the decimal point. Now both strings and unicode always use periods.
153
Neal Norwitz671b9e32006-01-09 07:07:12 +0000154- Bug #1244610, #1392915, fix build problem on OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.8.
155 configure would break checking curses.h.
156
Georg Brandlcd4d1e82005-12-27 17:37:07 +0000157- Bug #959576: The pwd module is now builtin. This allows Python to be
158 built on UNIX platforms without $HOME set.
159
Neal Norwitzc10978f2005-12-19 06:07:16 +0000160- Bug #1072182, fix some potential problems if characters are signed.
161
Neal Norwitz5d0ad502005-12-19 04:27:42 +0000162- Bug #889500, fix line number on SyntaxWarning for global declarations.
163
Neal Norwitzdb83eb32005-12-18 05:29:30 +0000164- Bug #1378022, UTF-8 files with a leading BOM crashed the interpreter.
165
Neal Norwitze7214a12005-12-18 05:03:17 +0000166- Support for converting hex strings to floats no longer works.
167 This was not portable. float('0x3') now raises a ValueError.
168
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000169- Patch #1382163: Expose Subversion revision number to Python. New C API
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +0000170 function Py_GetBuildNumber(). New attribute sys.subversion. Build number
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000171 is now displayed in interactive prompt banner.
172
Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000173- Implementation of PEP 341 - Unification of try/except and try/finally.
174 "except" clauses can now be written together with a "finally" clause in
Neal Norwitz11ca77e2005-12-17 22:24:12 +0000175 one try statement instead of two nested ones. Patch #1355913.
Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000176
Hye-Shik Chang835b2432005-12-17 04:38:31 +0000177- Bug #1379994: Builtin unicode_escape and raw_unicode_escape codec
178 now encodes backslash correctly.
179
Martin v. Löwisb45b3152005-11-28 17:34:23 +0000180- Patch #1350409: Work around signal handling bug in Visual Studio 2005.
181
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000182- Bug #1281408: Py_BuildValue now works correctly even with unsigned longs
Georg Brandlf06e30a2005-11-24 15:37:42 +0000183 and long longs.
184
Neal Norwitz67715f02005-11-09 06:59:35 +0000185- SF Bug #1350188, "setdlopenflags" leads to crash upon "import"
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000186 It was possible for dlerror() to return a NULL pointer, so
187 it will now use a default error message in this case.
Neal Norwitz67715f02005-11-09 06:59:35 +0000188
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000189- Replaced most Unicode charmap codecs with new ones using the
190 new Unicode translate string feature in the builtin charmap
191 codec; the codecs were created from the mapping tables available
192 at ftp.unicode.org and contain a few updates (e.g. the Mac OS
193 encodings now include a mapping for the Apple logo)
194
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000195- Added a few more codecs for Mac OS encodings
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000196
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000197- Sped up some Unicode operations.
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000198
Martin v. Löwisbd260da2006-02-26 19:42:26 +0000199- A new AST parser implementation was completed. The abstract
200 syntax tree is available for read-only (non-compile) access
Martin v. Löwis577b5b92006-02-27 15:23:19 +0000201 to Python code; an _ast module was added.
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000202
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000203- SF bug #1167751: fix incorrect code being produced for generator expressions.
Neal Norwitz16af7342005-10-21 06:25:33 +0000204 The following code now raises a SyntaxError: foo(a = i for i in range(10))
205
Neal Norwitz708e51a2005-10-03 04:48:15 +0000206- SF Bug #976608: fix SystemError when mtime of an imported file is -1.
207
Neal Norwitz11bd1192005-10-03 00:54:56 +0000208- SF Bug #887946: fix segfault when redirecting stdin from a directory.
209 Provide a warning when a directory is passed on the command line.
210
Neal Norwitz40d37812005-10-02 01:48:49 +0000211- Fix segfault with invalid coding.
212
213- SF bug #772896: unknown encoding results in MemoryError.
214
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000215- All iterators now have a Boolean value of True. Formerly, some iterators
Raymond Hettinger6b27cda2005-09-24 21:23:05 +0000216 supported a __len__() method which evaluated to False when the iterator
217 was empty.
218
Guido van Rossum630db602005-09-20 18:49:54 +0000219- On 64-bit platforms, when __len__() returns a value that cannot be
220 represented as a C int, raise OverflowError.
221
Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000222- test__locale is skipped on OS X < 10.4 (only partial locale support is
Walter Dörwald6611a8b2005-10-09 19:28:35 +0000223 present).
Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000224
Georg Brandl80bbf3f2005-09-14 19:38:29 +0000225- SF bug #893549: parsing keyword arguments was broken with a few format
226 codes.
227
Guido van Rossum8ee3e5a2005-09-14 18:09:42 +0000228- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on AIX 5.3
229 with IBM's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1284289). This also closes SF
230 bug #105470: test_pwd fails on 64bit system (Opteron).
231
Guido van Rossum539c6622005-09-14 17:49:54 +0000232- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on HP-UX 11 on
233 Itanium2 with HP's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1225212).
234
Georg Brandl4550b8d2005-08-26 06:43:52 +0000235- Disallow keyword arguments for type constructors that don't use them
Georg Brandl02c42872005-08-26 06:42:30 +0000236 (fixes bug #1119418).
237
Martin v. Löwisd35edda2005-08-24 08:39:24 +0000238- Forward UnicodeDecodeError into SyntaxError for source encoding errors.
239
Barry Warsawe2eca0b2005-08-15 18:14:19 +0000240- SF bug #900092: When tracing (e.g. for hotshot), restore 'return' events for
241 exceptions that cause a function to exit.
242
Raymond Hettinger9f1a6792005-07-31 01:16:36 +0000243- The implementation of set() and frozenset() was revised to use its
244 own internal data structure. Memory consumption is reduced by 1/3
245 and there are modest speed-ups as well. The API is unchanged.
246
Tim Petersde7990b2005-07-17 23:45:23 +0000247- SF bug #1238681: freed pointer is used in longobject.c:long_pow().
248
Michael W. Hudson0edc7a02005-07-12 10:21:19 +0000249- SF bug #1229429: PyObject_CallMethod failed to decrement some
250 reference counts in some error exit cases.
251
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000252- SF bug #1185883: Python's small-object memory allocator took over
253 a block managed by the platform C library whenever a realloc specified
254 a small new size. However, there's no portable way to know then how
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000255 much of the address space following the pointer is valid, so there's no
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000256 portable way to copy data from the C-managed block into Python's
257 small-object space without risking a memory fault. Python's small-object
258 realloc now leaves such blocks under the control of the platform C
259 realloc.
260
Michael W. Hudsonb8963812005-07-05 15:21:58 +0000261- SF bug #1232517: An overflow error was not detected properly when
262 attempting to convert a large float to an int in os.utime().
263
Raymond Hettinger3296e692005-06-29 23:29:56 +0000264- SF bug #1224347: hex longs now print with lowercase letters just
265 like their int counterparts.
266
Michael W. Hudson188d4362005-06-20 16:52:57 +0000267- SF bug #1163563: the original fix for bug #1010677 ("thread Module
268 Breaks PyGILState_Ensure()") broke badly in the case of multiple
269 interpreter states; back out that fix and do a better job (see
270 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-June/054258.html
271 for a longer write-up of the problem).
272
Michael W. Hudsondf888462005-06-03 14:41:55 +0000273- SF patch #1180995: marshal now uses a binary format by default when
274 serializing floats.
275
Michael W. Hudsonda85a902005-06-01 11:34:22 +0000276- SF patch #1181301: on platforms that appear to use IEEE 754 floats,
277 the routines that promise to produce IEEE 754 binary representations
278 of floats now simply copy bytes around.
279
Skip Montanarobbf12ba2005-05-20 03:07:06 +0000280- bug #967182: disallow opening files with 'wU' or 'aU' as specified by PEP
281 278.
282
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000283- patch #1109424: int, long, float, complex, and unicode now check for the
284 proper magic slot for type conversions when subclassed. Previously the
285 magic slot was ignored during conversion. Semantics now match the way
286 subclasses of str always behaved. int/long/float, conversion of an instance
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +0000287 to the base class has been moved to the proper nb_* magic slot and out of
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000288 PyNumber_*().
289 Thanks Walter Dörwald.
290
Barry Warsawc8d907c2005-04-19 23:43:40 +0000291- Descriptors defined in C with a PyGetSetDef structure, where the setter is
292 NULL, now raise an AttributeError when attempting to set or delete the
293 attribute. Previously a TypeError was raised, but this was inconsistent
294 with the equivalent pure-Python implementation.
295
Michael W. Hudson774479c2005-04-18 08:46:17 +0000296- It is now safe to call PyGILState_Release() before
297 PyEval_InitThreads() (note that if there is reason to believe there
298 are multiple threads around you still must call PyEval_InitThreads()
299 before using the Python API; this fix is for extension modules that
300 have no way of knowing if Python is multi-threaded yet).
301
Michael W. Hudsone3afc592005-04-07 10:11:19 +0000302- Typing Ctrl-C whilst raw_input() was waiting in a build with threads
303 disabled caused a crash.
304
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +0000305- Bug #1165306: instancemethod_new allowed the creation of a method
306 with im_class == im_self == NULL, which caused a crash when called.
307
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000308- Move exception finalisation later in the shutdown process - this
Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +0000309 fixes the crash seen in bug #1165761
310
Raymond Hettinger96229b12005-03-11 06:49:40 +0000311- Added two new builtins, any() and all().
312
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +0000313- Defining a class with empty parentheses is now allowed
Brett Cannonf4189912005-04-09 02:30:16 +0000314 (e.g., ``class C(): pass`` is no longer a syntax error).
315 Patch #1176012 added support to the 'parser' module and 'compiler' package
316 (thanks to logistix for that added support).
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +0000317
Martin v. Löwis96d743e2005-03-03 23:00:26 +0000318- Patch #1115086: Support PY_LONGLONG in structmember.
319
Raymond Hettingerb67cc802005-03-03 16:45:19 +0000320- Bug #1155938: new style classes did not check that __init__() was
321 returning None.
322
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000323- Patch #802188: Report characters after line continuation character
Martin v. Löwis4bf108d2005-03-03 11:45:45 +0000324 ('\') with a specific error message.
325
Martin v. Löwisff232d72005-03-03 09:24:38 +0000326- Bug #723201: Raise a TypeError for passing bad objects to 'L' format.
327
Michael W. Hudson8e1afab2005-02-17 14:55:21 +0000328- Bug #1124295: the __name__ attribute of file objects was
329 inadvertently made inaccessible in restricted mode.
330
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000331- Bug #1074011: closing sys.std{out,err} now causes a flush() and
Martin v. Löwis8e3ca8a2005-01-23 09:41:49 +0000332 an ferror() call.
333
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +0000334- min() and max() now support key= arguments with the same meaning as in
335 list.sort().
336
Raymond Hettingerc34f8672005-01-02 06:17:33 +0000337- The peephole optimizer now performs simple constant folding in expressions:
338 (2+3) --> (5).
339
Raymond Hettingera422c342005-01-11 03:03:27 +0000340- set and frozenset objects can now be marshalled. SF #1098985.
341
Michael W. Hudsonfaa76482005-01-31 17:09:25 +0000342- Bug #1077106: Poor argument checking could cause memory corruption
343 in calls to os.read().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000344
Jeremy Hyltonab630502005-02-04 18:44:06 +0000345- The parser did not complain about future statements in illegal
346 positions. It once again reports a syntax error if a future
347 statement occurs after anything other than a doc string.
348
Neil Schemenauercf52c072005-08-12 17:34:58 +0000349- Change the %s format specifier for str objects so that it returns a
350 unicode instance if the argument is not an instance of basestring and
351 calling __str__ on the argument returns a unicode instance.
352
Tim Petersf4e69282006-02-27 17:15:31 +0000353- Patch #1413181: changed ``PyThreadState_Delete()`` to forget about the
354 current thread state when the auto-GIL-state machinery knows about
355 it (since the thread state is being deleted, continuing to remember it
356 can't help, but can hurt if another thread happens to get created with
357 the same thread id).
358
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000359Extension Modules
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361
Georg Brandl43f08a82006-03-31 18:01:16 +0000362- Patch #1380952: fix SSL objects timing out on consecutive read()s
363
Neal Norwitz05a45592006-03-20 06:30:08 +0000364- Patch #1309579: wait3 and wait4 were added to the posix module.
365
Anthony Baxterfa869072006-03-20 05:21:58 +0000366- Patch #1231053: The audioop module now supports encoding/decoding of alaw.
367 In addition, the existing ulaw code was updated.
368
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +0000369- RFE #567972: Socket objects' family, type and proto properties are
Georg Brandl72d7a782006-03-22 06:44:14 +0000370 now exposed via new attributes.
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +0000371
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +0000372- Everything under lib-old was removed. This includes the following modules:
373 Para, addpack, cmp, cmpcache, codehack, dircmp, dump, find, fmt, grep,
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +0000374 lockfile, newdir, ni, packmail, poly, rand, statcache, tb, tzparse,
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +0000375 util, whatsound, whrandom, zmod
376
377- The following modules were removed: regsub, reconvert, regex, regex_syntax.
378
379- re and sre were swapped, so help(re) provides full help. importing sre
Neal Norwitzefbeaef2006-03-16 06:40:39 +0000380 is deprecated. The undocumented re.engine variable no longer exists.
381
Hye-Shik Changabb903f2006-03-13 10:20:08 +0000382- Bug #1448490: Fixed a bug that ISO-2022 codecs could not handle
383 SS2 (single-shift 2) escape sequences correctly.
384
Martin v. Löwis480f1bb2006-03-09 23:38:20 +0000385- The unicodedata module was updated to the 4.1 version of the Unicode
386 database. The 3.2 version is still available as unicodedata.db_3_2_0
387 for applications that require this specific version (such as IDNA).
388
Neal Norwitzb62c4332006-03-04 18:35:47 +0000389- The timing module is no longer built by default. It was deprecated
390 in PEP 4 in Python 2.0 or earlier.
391
Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +0000392- Patch 1433928: Added a new type, defaultdict, to the collections module.
393 This uses the new __missing__ hook behavior added to dict (see above).
394
Georg Brandldbd83392006-02-20 09:42:33 +0000395- Bug #854823: socketmodule now builds on Sun platforms even when
396 INET_ADDRSTRLEN is not defined.
397
Georg Brandlf4f44152006-02-18 22:29:33 +0000398- Patch #1393157: os.startfile() now has an optional argument to specify
399 a "command verb" to invoke on the file.
400
Neal Norwitz082b2df2006-02-07 07:04:46 +0000401- Bug #876637, prevent stack corruption when socket descriptor
402 is larger than FD_SETSIZE.
403
Neal Norwitz0e6bc8c2006-02-05 05:45:43 +0000404- Patch #1407135, bug #1424041: harmonize mmap behavior of anonymous memory.
405 mmap.mmap(-1, size) now returns anonymous memory in both Unix and Windows.
406 mmap.mmap(0, size) should not be used on Windows for anonymous memory.
407
Martin v. Löwis57a34e82006-02-04 19:12:37 +0000408- Patch #1422385: The nis module now supports access to domains other
409 than the system default domain.
410
Martin v. Löwis14694662006-02-03 12:54:16 +0000411- Use Win32 API to implement os.stat/fstat. As a result, subsecond timestamps
412 are reported, the limit on path name lengths is removed, and stat reports
413 WindowsError now (instead of OSError).
414
Gregory P. Smithcfc4a8d2006-01-29 19:46:23 +0000415- Add bsddb.db.DBEnv.set_tx_timestamp allowing time based database recovery.
416
Neal Norwitz62a21122006-01-25 05:21:55 +0000417- Bug #1413192, fix seg fault in bsddb if a transaction was deleted
418 before the env.
419
Martin v. Löwis11017b12006-01-14 18:12:57 +0000420- Patch #1103116: Basic AF_NETLINK support.
421
Neal Norwitz3b4fff82006-01-11 08:54:45 +0000422- Bug #1402308, (possible) segfault when using mmap.mmap(-1, ...)
423
Neal Norwitz88bbd732006-01-10 07:05:44 +0000424- Bug #1400822, _curses over{lay,write} doesn't work when passing 6 ints.
425 Also fix ungetmouse() which did not accept arguments properly.
426 The code now conforms to the documented signature.
427
Neal Norwitz5e3d8622006-01-09 06:24:35 +0000428- Bug #1400115, Fix segfault when calling curses.panel.userptr()
429 without prior setting of the userptr.
430
Neal Norwitz40c6b472006-01-05 05:43:35 +0000431- Fix 64-bit problems in bsddb.
432
Neal Norwitz8856fb72005-12-18 03:34:22 +0000433- Patch #1365916: fix some unsafe 64-bit mmap methods.
434
Hye-Shik Changc5c57e62005-12-12 11:48:32 +0000435- Bug #1290333: Added a workaround for cjkcodecs' _codecs_cn build
436 problem on AIX.
437
Georg Brandla13c2442005-11-22 19:30:31 +0000438- Bug #869197: os.setgroups rejects long integer arguments
439
Neal Norwitz0f46bbf2005-11-03 05:00:25 +0000440- Bug #1346533, select.poll() doesn't raise an error if timeout > sys.maxint
441
Neal Norwitz7b631792005-11-02 05:26:07 +0000442- Bug #1344508, Fix UNIX mmap leaking file descriptors
443
Neal Norwitzf3396542005-10-28 05:52:22 +0000444- Patch #1338314, Bug #1336623: fix tarfile so it can extract
445 REGTYPE directories from tarfiles written by old programs.
446
Gregory P. Smithe101df92006-01-24 20:09:45 +0000447- Patch #1407992, fixes broken bsddb module db associate when using
448 BerkeleyDB 3.3, 4.0 or 4.1.
449
450- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 4.4
451
452- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 3.2
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000453
Neal Norwitz484d9a42005-09-30 04:46:49 +0000454- Patch #1309009, Fix segfault in pyexpat when the XML document is in latin_1,
455 but Python incorrectly assumes it is in UTF-8 format
456
Georg Brandle677adc2005-09-29 13:40:49 +0000457- Fix parse errors in the readline module when compiling without threads.
458
Hye-Shik Chang9ceebd52005-09-24 14:58:47 +0000459- Patch #1288833: Removed thread lock from socket.getaddrinfo on
460 FreeBSD 5.3 and later versions which got thread-safe getaddrinfo(3).
461
Michael W. Hudson10402a32005-09-22 09:19:01 +0000462- Patches #1298449 and #1298499: Add some missing checks for error
463 returns in cStringIO.c.
464
Neal Norwitz058bde12005-09-21 06:44:25 +0000465- Patch #1297028: fix segfault if call type on MultibyteCodec,
466 MultibyteStreamReader, or MultibyteStreamWriter
467
Neal Norwitzcfe7dd92005-09-19 06:49:27 +0000468- Fix memory leak in posix.access().
469
Martin v. Löwis8b291e22005-09-18 08:17:56 +0000470- Patch #1213831: Fix typo in unicodedata._getcode.
471
Georg Brandlfb1ef852005-09-14 20:53:32 +0000472- Bug #1007046: os.startfile() did not accept unicode strings encoded in
473 the file system encoding.
474
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +0000475- Patch #756021: Special-case socket.inet_aton('255.255.255.255') for
476 platforms that don't have inet_aton().
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +0000477
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +0000478- Bug #1215928: Fix bz2.BZ2File.seek() for 64-bit file offsets.
479
480- Bug #1191043: Fix bz2.BZ2File.(x)readlines for files containing one
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +0000481 line without newlines.
482
Georg Brandl38387b82005-08-24 07:17:40 +0000483- Bug #728515: mmap.resize() now resizes the file on Unix as it did
484 on Windows.
485
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000486- Patch #1180695: Add nanosecond stat resolution, and st_gen,
Martin v. Löwisebd9d5b2005-08-09 15:00:59 +0000487 st_birthtime for FreeBSD.
488
Michael W. Hudson8137bea2005-07-27 20:24:40 +0000489- Patch #1231069: The fcntl.ioctl function now uses the 'I' code for
490 the request code argument, which results in more C-like behaviour
491 for large or negative values.
492
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000493- Bug #1234979: For the argument of thread.Lock.acquire, the Windows
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000494 implementation treated all integer values except 1 as false.
Georg Brandlaf410b52005-07-08 22:26:13 +0000495
Georg Brandl6b95f1d2005-06-03 19:47:00 +0000496- Bug #1194181: bz2.BZ2File didn't handle mode 'U' correctly.
497
Hye-Shik Chang5f937a72005-06-02 13:09:30 +0000498- Patch #1212117: os.stat().st_flags is now accessible as a attribute
499 if available on the platform.
500
Skip Montanaro5ff14922005-05-16 02:42:22 +0000501- Patch #1103951: Expose O_SHLOCK and O_EXLOCK in the posix module if
502 available on the platform.
503
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +0000504- Bug #1166660: The readline module could segfault if hook functions
505 were set in a different thread than that which called readline.
506
Raymond Hettinger4aec61e2005-03-18 21:20:23 +0000507- collections.deque objects now support a remove() method.
508
Raymond Hettinger984f9bb2005-03-09 16:38:48 +0000509- operator.itemgetter() and operator.attrgetter() now support retrieving
510 multiple fields. This provides direct support for sorting on multiple
511 keys (primary, secondary, etc).
512
Martin v. Löwisb60ae992005-03-08 09:10:29 +0000513- os.access now supports Unicode path names on non-Win32 systems.
514
Martin v. Löwisfd78a6f2005-03-04 14:37:01 +0000515- Patches #925152, #1118602: Avoid reading after the end of the buffer
516 in pyexpat.GetInputContext.
517
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000518- Patches #749830, #1144555: allow UNIX mmap size to default to current
Martin v. Löwis7fe60c02005-03-03 11:22:44 +0000519 file size.
520
Raymond Hettinger9c323f82005-02-28 19:39:44 +0000521- Added functional.partial(). See PEP309.
522
Martin v. Löwis9533e342005-02-27 20:33:25 +0000523- Patch #1093585: raise a ValueError for negative history items in readline.
524 {remove_history,replace_history}
525
Fred Drake9c131f22005-01-23 15:16:08 +0000526- The spwd module has been added, allowing access to the shadow password
527 database.
Martin v. Löwisc3001752005-01-23 09:27:24 +0000528
Martin v. Löwisfe33d0b2005-01-16 08:57:39 +0000529- stat_float_times is now True.
530
Raymond Hettingerb0900e62004-12-16 16:23:40 +0000531- array.array objects are now picklable.
532
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +0000533- the cPickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
534 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
535
Raymond Hettingerb2594052004-12-05 09:25:51 +0000536- itertools.islice() now accepts None for the start and step arguments.
537 This allows islice() to work more readily with slices:
538 islice(s.start, s.stop, s.step)
539
Skip Montanaro0af3ade2005-01-13 04:12:31 +0000540- datetime.datetime() now has a strptime class method which can be used to
541 create datetime object using a string and format.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000542
Matthias Klosed77f8b32006-04-03 16:34:56 +0000543- Patch #1117961: Replace the MD5 implementation from RSA Data Security Inc
Matthias Klose8e39ec72006-04-03 16:27:50 +0000544 with the implementation from http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmd5-rfc/.
545
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000546Library
547-------
548
Anthony Baxter93f5b932006-04-03 08:05:07 +0000549- The email module's parsedate_tz function now sets the daylight savings
550 flag to -1 (unknown) since it can't tell from the date whether it should
551 be set.
552
Fred Drakead5177c2006-04-01 22:14:43 +0000553- Patch #624325: urlparse.urlparse() and urlparse.urlsplit() results
554 now sport attributes that provide access to the parts of the result.
555
Georg Brandl7f6b67c2006-04-01 08:35:18 +0000556- Patch #1462498: sgmllib now handles entity and character references
557 in attribute values.
558
Anthony Baxterc51ee692006-04-01 00:57:31 +0000559- Added the sqlite3 package. This is based on pysqlite2.1.3, and provides
Georg Brandl828fdef2006-04-01 08:59:03 +0000560 a DB-API interface in the standard library. You'll need sqlite 3.0.8 or
Anthony Baxterc51ee692006-04-01 00:57:31 +0000561 later to build this - if you have an earlier version, the C extension
562 module will not be built.
563
Tim Petersc17976e2006-04-01 00:26:53 +0000564- Bug #1460340: ``random.sample(dict)`` failed in various ways. Dicts
565 aren't officially supported here, and trying to use them will probably
566 raise an exception some day. But dicts have been allowed, and "mostly
567 worked", so support for them won't go away without warning.
568
Georg Brandl338ef7d2006-03-31 18:42:16 +0000569- Bug #1445068: getpass.getpass() can now be given an explicit stream
570 argument to specify where to write the prompt.
571
Georg Brandl22ec80b2006-03-31 18:25:44 +0000572- Patch #1462313, bug #1443328: the pickle modules now can handle classes
573 that have __private names in their __slots__.
574
Neal Norwitz6974a512006-04-10 00:25:01 +0000575- Bug #1250170: mimetools now handles socket.gethostname() failures gracefully.
Georg Brandldd2245f2006-03-31 17:18:06 +0000576
Phillip J. Eby59821cf2006-03-30 02:16:40 +0000577- patch #1457316: "setup.py upload" now supports --identity to select the
578 key to be used for signing the uploaded code.
579
Raymond Hettingerfd3fcf02006-03-24 20:43:29 +0000580- Queue.Queue objects now support .task_done() and .join() methods
581 to make it easier to monitor when daemon threads have completed
582 processing all enqueued tasks. Patch #1455676.
583
Martin v. Löwisbd8dbab2006-03-23 18:18:35 +0000584- popen2.Popen objects now preserve the command in a .cmd attribute.
585
Thomas Hellerc61c0492006-03-22 10:09:27 +0000586- Added the ctypes ffi package.
587
Barry Warsaw4d90bbd2006-03-22 02:45:50 +0000588- email 4.0 package now integrated. This is largely the same as the email 3.0
589 package that was included in Python 2.3, except that PEP 8 module names are
590 now used (e.g. mail.message instead of email.Message). The MIME classes
591 have been moved to a subpackage (e.g. email.mime.text instead of
592 email.MIMEText). The old names are still supported for now. Several
593 deprecated Message methods have been removed and lots of bugs have been
594 fixed. More details can be found in the email package documentation.
595
Walter Dörwald40108c92006-03-27 08:15:44 +0000596- Patches #1436130/#1443155: codecs.lookup() now returns a CodecInfo object
597 (a subclass of tuple) that provides incremental decoders and encoders
598 (a way to use stateful codecs without the stream API). Python functions
599 codecs.getincrementaldecoder() and codecs.getincrementalencoder() as well
600 as C functions PyCodec_IncrementalEncoder() and PyCodec_IncrementalDecoder()
601 have been added.
Walter Dörwaldabb02e52006-03-15 11:35:15 +0000602
Walter Dörwald067db482006-03-15 22:17:27 +0000603- Patch #1359365: Calling next() on a closed StringIO.String object raises
604 a ValueError instead of a StopIteration now (like file and cString.String do).
605 cStringIO.StringIO.isatty() will raise a ValueError now if close() has been
606 called before (like file and StringIO.StringIO do).
Walter Dörwald197e8322006-03-15 22:13:13 +0000607
Martin v. Löwis04824ce2006-03-10 21:26:16 +0000608- A regrtest option -w was added to re-run failed tests in verbose mode.
609
Georg Brandle2b46772006-03-09 23:22:43 +0000610- Patch #1446372: quit and exit can now be called from the interactive
611 interpreter to exit.
612
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +0000613- The function get_count() has been added to the gc module, and gc.collect()
614 grew an optional 'generation' argument.
615
Martin v. Löwisfbab90e2006-03-05 13:36:04 +0000616- A library msilib to generate Windows Installer files, and a distutils
617 command bdist_msi have been added.
618
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +0000619- PEP 343: new module contextlib.py defines decorator @contextmanager
620 and helpful context managers nested() and closing().
621
Martin v. Löwis415ed932006-02-27 19:56:30 +0000622- The compiler package now supports future imports after the module docstring.
623
Georg Brandl8f7c54e2006-02-20 08:40:38 +0000624- Bug #1413790: zipfile now sanitizes absolute archive names that are
625 not allowed by the specs.
626
Georg Brandlc98eeed2006-02-19 14:57:47 +0000627- Patch #1215184: FileInput now can be given an opening hook which can
628 be used to control how files are opened.
629
Georg Brandlc029f872006-02-19 14:12:34 +0000630- Patch #1212287: fileinput.input() now has a mode parameter for
631 specifying the file mode input files should be opened with.
632
Georg Brandl67e9fb92006-02-19 13:56:17 +0000633- Patch #1215184: fileinput now has a fileno() function for getting the
634 current file number.
635
Georg Brandl602b9ba2006-02-19 13:26:36 +0000636- Patch #1349274: gettext.install() now optionally installs additional
637 translation functions other than _() in the builtin namespace.
638
Georg Brandle4662172006-02-19 09:51:27 +0000639- Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames.
640
Georg Brandl7b4e7c22006-02-18 21:10:56 +0000641- Patch #1373643: The chunk module can now read chunks larger than
642 two gigabytes.
643
Georg Brandl21dd1af2006-02-17 13:35:13 +0000644- Patch #1417555: SimpleHTTPServer now returns Last-Modified headers.
645
Georg Brandlbd3bc4d2006-02-17 09:52:53 +0000646- Bug #1430298: It is now possible to send a mail with an empty
647 return address using smtplib.
648
Georg Brandl0e1abe22006-02-17 09:48:14 +0000649- Bug #1432260: The names of lambda functions are now properly displayed
650 in pydoc.
Georg Brandl501dd0d2006-02-17 09:45:40 +0000651
Martin v. Löwis00756902006-02-05 17:09:41 +0000652- Patch #1412872: zipfile now sets the creator system to 3 (Unix)
653 unless the system is Win32.
654
Tim Petersda1329b2006-02-27 16:50:01 +0000655- Patch #1349118: urllib now supports user:pass@ style proxy
Martin v. Löwis3e865952006-01-24 15:51:21 +0000656 specifications, raises IOErrors when proxies for unsupported protocols
657 are defined, and uses the https proxy on https redirections.
658
Georg Brandl531ceba2006-01-21 07:20:56 +0000659- Bug #902075: urllib2 now supports 'host:port' style proxy specifications.
660
661- Bug #1407902: Add support for sftp:// URIs to urlparse.
Georg Brandl89f35ac2006-01-20 17:24:23 +0000662
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000663- Bug #1371247: Update Windows locale identifiers in locale.py.
664
Neal Norwitzf60cd472006-01-14 07:05:13 +0000665- Bug #1394565: SimpleHTTPServer now doesn't choke on query parameters
Georg Brandl45ab2332006-01-13 17:05:56 +0000666 any more.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000667
Georg Brandl4edd9892006-01-13 16:59:46 +0000668- Bug #1403410: The warnings module now doesn't get confused
669 when it can't find out the module name it generates a warning for.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000670
Martin v. Löwis412ed3b2006-01-08 10:45:39 +0000671- Patch #1177307: Added a new codec utf_8_sig for UTF-8 with a BOM signature.
672
Neal Norwitzab86f8e2005-12-23 21:44:36 +0000673- Patch #1157027: cookielib mishandles RFC 2109 cookies in Netscape mode
674
Neal Norwitz338e7862005-12-23 21:27:46 +0000675- Patch #1117398: cookielib.LWPCookieJar and .MozillaCookieJar now raise
676 LoadError as documented, instead of IOError. For compatibility,
677 LoadError subclasses IOError.
678
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +0000679- Added the hashlib module. It provides secure hash functions for MD5 and
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000680 SHA1, 224, 256, 384, and 512. Note that recent developments make the
681 historic MD5 and SHA1 unsuitable for cryptographic-strength applications.
682 In <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058850.html>
683 Ronald L. Rivest offered this advice for Python:
684
685 "The consensus of researchers in this area (at least as
686 expressed at the NIST Hash Function Workshop 10/31/05),
687 is that SHA-256 is a good choice for the time being, but
688 that research should continue, and other alternatives may
689 arise from this research. The larger SHA's also seem OK."
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +0000690
Fredrik Lundh7e0aef02005-12-12 18:54:55 +0000691- Added a subset of Fredrik Lundh's ElementTree package. Available
692 modules are xml.etree.ElementTree, xml.etree.ElementPath, and
693 xml.etree.ElementInclude, from ElementTree 1.2.6.
694
Martin v. Löwis307021f2005-11-27 16:59:04 +0000695- Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles.
696
Georg Brandl1f663572005-11-26 16:50:44 +0000697- Bug #1365984: urllib now opens "data:" URLs again.
698
Brett Cannonad07ff22005-11-23 02:15:50 +0000699- Patch #1314396: prevent deadlock for threading.Thread.join() when an exception
700 is raised within the method itself on a previous call (e.g., passing in an
701 illegal argument)
702
Brett Cannon5d0bf942005-11-02 23:04:26 +0000703- Bug #1340337: change time.strptime() to always return ValueError when there
704 is an error in the format string.
705
Georg Brandle8f24432005-10-03 14:16:44 +0000706- Patch #754022: Greatly enhanced webbrowser.py (by Oleg Broytmann).
707
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000708- Bug #729103: pydoc.py: Fix docother() method to accept additional
Georg Brandl8b813db2005-10-01 16:32:31 +0000709 "parent" argument.
710
Georg Brandlaa935172005-09-29 20:49:16 +0000711- Patch #1300515: xdrlib.py: Fix pack_fstring() to really use null bytes
712 for padding.
713
Georg Brandl80ba8e82005-09-29 20:16:07 +0000714- Bug #1296004: httplib.py: Limit maximal amount of data read from the
715 socket to avoid a MemoryError on Windows.
716
Matthias Klosef3f231f2005-09-20 07:02:49 +0000717- Patch #1166948: locale.py: Prefer LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG over LANGUAGE
718 to get the correct encoding.
719
720- Patch #1166938: locale.py: Parse LANGUAGE as a colon separated list of
721 languages.
722
Martin v. Löwis4ed67382005-09-18 08:34:39 +0000723- Patch #1268314: Cache lines in StreamReader.readlines for performance.
724
Brett Cannona783d062005-09-15 02:34:56 +0000725- Bug #1290505: Fix clearing the regex cache for time.strptime().
726
Martin v. Löwis5dbdc592005-08-27 10:07:56 +0000727- Bug #1167128: Fix size of a symlink in a tarfile to be 0.
728
Georg Brandl5a650a22005-08-26 08:51:34 +0000729- Patch #810023: Fix off-by-one bug in urllib.urlretrieve reporthook
730 functionality.
731
Martin v. Löwis8b595142005-08-25 11:03:38 +0000732- Bug #1163178: Make IDNA return an empty string when the input is empty.
733
Georg Brandl532efab2005-08-24 22:34:21 +0000734- Patch #848017: Make Cookie more RFC-compliant. Use CRLF as default output
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000735 separator and do not output trailing semicolon.
Georg Brandl532efab2005-08-24 22:34:21 +0000736
Georg Brandlb9256022005-08-24 18:46:39 +0000737- Patch #1062060: urllib.urlretrieve() now raises a new exception, named
738 ContentTooShortException, when the actually downloaded size does not
739 match the Content-Length header.
740
Martin v. Löwis0a5d4a22005-08-24 14:55:22 +0000741- Bug #1121494: distutils.dir_utils.mkpath now accepts Unicode strings.
742
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +0000743- Bug #1178484: Return complete lines from codec stream readers
744 even if there is an exception in later lines, resulting in
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000745 correct line numbers for decoding errors in source code.
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +0000746
Georg Brandl6d2b3462005-08-24 07:36:17 +0000747- Bug #1192315: Disallow negative arguments to clear() in pdb.
748
Martin v. Löwisb813c532005-08-07 20:51:04 +0000749- Patch #827386: Support absolute source paths in msvccompiler.py.
750
Georg Brandl649f8e72005-08-03 07:30:12 +0000751- Patch #1105730: Apply the new implementation of commonprefix in posixpath
752 to ntpath, macpath, os2emxpath and riscospath.
753
Guido van Rossum755149f2005-07-27 00:00:44 +0000754- Fix a problem in Tkinter introduced by SF patch #869468: delete bogus
755 __hasattr__ and __delattr__ methods on class Tk that were breaking
756 Tkdnd.
757
Georg Brandl5dbda752005-07-17 20:27:41 +0000758- Bug #1015140: disambiguated the term "article id" in nntplib docs and
759 docstrings to either "article number" or "message id".
760
Georg Brandla4a8b822005-07-15 09:13:21 +0000761- Bug #1238170: threading.Thread.__init__ no longer has "kwargs={}" as a
762 parameter, but uses the usual "kwargs=None".
763
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000764- textwrap now processes text chunks at O(n) speed instead of O(n**2).
Raymond Hettinger8bfa8932005-07-15 06:53:35 +0000765 Patch #1209527 (Contributed by Connelly).
766
Georg Brandl5c5fe2f2005-07-14 06:40:47 +0000767- urllib2 has now an attribute 'httpresponses' mapping from HTTP status code
768 to W3C name (404 -> 'Not Found'). RFE #1216944.
769
Georg Brandl9e43acf2005-07-04 17:16:07 +0000770- Bug #1177468: Don't cache the /dev/urandom file descriptor for os.urandom,
771 as this can cause problems with apps closing all file descriptors.
772
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000773- Bug #839151: Fix an attempt to access sys.argv in the warnings module;
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000774 it can be missing in embedded interpreters
Georg Brandl5284b532005-06-26 22:54:58 +0000775
Georg Brandl2f210b62005-06-26 22:09:06 +0000776- Bug #1155638: Fix a bug which affected HTTP 0.9 responses in httplib.
777
Georg Brandlfbff1bc2005-06-26 21:36:25 +0000778- Bug #1100201: Cross-site scripting was possible on BaseHTTPServer via
779 error messages.
780
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +0000781- Bug #1108948: Cookie.py produced invalid JavaScript code.
782
Raymond Hettingerda99d1c2005-06-21 07:43:58 +0000783- The tokenize module now detects and reports indentation errors.
784 Bug #1224621.
785
Raymond Hettinger68c04532005-06-10 11:05:19 +0000786- The tokenize module has a new untokenize() function to support a full
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000787 roundtrip from lexed tokens back to Python source code. In addition,
Raymond Hettinger68c04532005-06-10 11:05:19 +0000788 the generate_tokens() function now accepts a callable argument that
789 terminates by raising StopIteration.
790
Georg Brandl9166e1a2005-06-04 09:20:03 +0000791- Bug #1196315: fix weakref.WeakValueDictionary constructor.
792
Georg Brandl268e61c2005-06-03 14:28:50 +0000793- Bug #1213894: os.path.realpath didn't resolve symlinks that were the first
794 component of the path.
795
Skip Montanaro174dd222005-05-14 20:54:16 +0000796- Patch #1120353: The xmlrpclib module provides better, more transparent,
797 support for datetime.{datetime,date,time} objects. With use_datetime set
798 to True, applications shouldn't have to fiddle with the DateTime wrapper
799 class at all.
800
Martin v. Löwis55f1bb82005-03-21 20:56:35 +0000801- distutils.commands.upload was added to support uploading distribution
802 files to PyPI.
803
Walter Dörwalda6e8a4a2005-03-31 13:57:38 +0000804- distutils.commands.register now encodes the data as UTF-8 before posting
805 them to PyPI.
806
Raymond Hettinger267b8682005-03-27 10:47:39 +0000807- decimal operator and comparison methods now return NotImplemented
808 instead of raising a TypeError when interacting with other types. This
809 allows other classes to implement __radd__ style methods and have them
810 work as expected.
811
Raymond Hettingerbea3f6f2005-03-15 04:59:17 +0000812- Bug #1163325: Decimal infinities failed to hash. Attempting to
813 hash a NaN raised an InvalidOperation instead of a TypeError.
814
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000815- Patch #918101: Add tarfile open mode r|* for auto-detection of the
Martin v. Löwis78be7df2005-03-05 12:47:42 +0000816 stream compression; add, for symmetry reasons, r:* as a synonym of r.
817
Martin v. Löwis00a73e72005-03-04 19:40:34 +0000818- Patch #1043890: Add extractall method to tarfile.
819
Martin v. Löwisc72dd382005-03-04 13:50:17 +0000820- Patch #1075887: Don't require MSVC in distutils if there is nothing
821 to build.
822
Martin v. Löwis637431b2005-03-03 23:12:42 +0000823- Patch #1103407: Properly deal with tarfile iterators when untarring
824 symbolic links on Windows.
825
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000826- Patch #645894: Use getrusage for computing the time consumption in
Martin v. Löwisa4dac402005-03-03 11:39:45 +0000827 profile.py if available.
828
Martin v. Löwisdf37c8c2005-03-03 11:08:03 +0000829- Patch #1046831: Use get_python_version where appropriate in sysconfig.py.
830
Martin v. Löwisc5574e82005-03-03 10:57:37 +0000831- Patch #1117454: Remove code to special-case cookies without values
832 in LWPCookieJar.
833
Martin v. Löwis4ea3ead2005-03-03 10:48:12 +0000834- Patch #1117339: Add cookielib special name tests.
835
Martin v. Löwise869eb12005-03-03 09:46:07 +0000836- Patch #1112812: Make bsddb/__init__.py more friendly for modulefinder.
837
Martin v. Löwisf2a8d632005-03-03 08:35:22 +0000838- Patch #1110248: SYNC_FLUSH the zlib buffer for GZipFile.flush.
839
Martin v. Löwisdf241532005-03-03 08:17:42 +0000840- Patch #1107973: Allow to iterate over the lines of a tarfile.ExFileObject.
841
Martin v. Löwis8ed338a2005-03-03 08:12:27 +0000842- Patch #1104111: Alter setup.py --help and --help-commands.
843
Martin v. Löwis4afe1542005-03-01 08:09:28 +0000844- Patch #1121234: Properly cleanup _exit and tkerror commands.
845
Martin v. Löwisc2a0ac22005-02-24 20:22:10 +0000846- Patch #1049151: xdrlib now unpacks booleans as True or False.
847
Raymond Hettingerbab41432005-02-05 01:31:19 +0000848- Fixed bug in a NameError bug in cookielib. Patch #1116583.
849
Guido van Rossumd0641422005-02-03 15:01:24 +0000850- Applied a security fix to SimpleXMLRPCserver (PSF-2005-001). This
851 disables recursive traversal through instance attributes, which can
852 be exploited in various ways.
853
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000854- Bug #1222790: in SimpleXMLRPCServer, set the reuse-address and close-on-exec
Andrew M. Kuchling3a976052005-12-04 15:07:41 +0000855 flags on the HTTP listening socket.
856
Andrew M. Kuchlinge63fde72005-12-04 15:36:57 +0000857- Bug #792570: SimpleXMLRPCServer had problems if the request grew too large.
858 Fixed by reading the HTTP body in chunks instead of one big socket.read().
859
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000860- Patches #893642, #1039083: add allow_none, encoding arguments to constructors of
Andrew M. Kuchling10a16de2005-12-04 16:34:40 +0000861 SimpleXMLRPCServer and CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler.
862
Martin v. Löwis1d11de62005-01-29 13:29:23 +0000863- Bug #1110478: Revert os.environ.update to do putenv again.
864
Thomas Hellerd6c6e222005-01-20 19:20:16 +0000865- Bug #1103844: fix distutils.install.dump_dirs() with negated options.
866
Martin v. Löwis22b457e2005-01-16 08:40:58 +0000867- os.{SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END} have been added for convenience.
868
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000869- Enhancements to the csv module:
870
871 + Dialects are now validated by the underlying C code, better
Georg Brandl7eb4b7d2005-07-22 21:49:32 +0000872 reflecting its capabilities, and improving its compliance with
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000873 PEP 305.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000874 + Dialect parameter parsing has been re-implemented to improve error
875 reporting.
876 + quotechar=None and quoting=QUOTE_NONE now work the way PEP 305
877 dictates.
878 + the parser now removes the escapechar prefix from escaped characters.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +0000879 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the writer now tests for numeric
Andrew McNamaraf69d94f2005-01-13 11:30:54 +0000880 types, rather than any object than can be represented as a numeric.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +0000881 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the reader now casts unquoted fields
882 to floats.
Andrew McNamaraf69d94f2005-01-13 11:30:54 +0000883 + reader now allows \r characters to be quoted (previously it only allowed
884 \n to be quoted).
Andrew McNamarac89f2842005-01-12 07:44:42 +0000885 + writer doublequote handling improved.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000886 + Dialect classes passed to the module are no longer instantiated by
887 the module before being parsed (the former validation scheme required
888 this, but the mechanism was unreliable).
889 + The dialect registry now contains instances of the internal
890 C-coded dialect type, rather than references to python objects.
891 + the internal c-coded dialect type is now immutable.
892 + register_dialect now accepts the same keyword dialect specifications
893 as the reader and writer, allowing the user to register dialects
894 without first creating a dialect class.
895 + a configurable limit to the size of parsed fields has been added -
896 previously, an unmatched quote character could result in the entire
897 file being read into the field buffer before an error was reported.
Andrew McNamara31d88962005-01-12 03:45:10 +0000898 + A new module method csv.field_size_limit() has been added that sets
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000899 the parser field size limit (returning the former limit). The initial
900 limit is 128kB.
Andrew McNamara7f2053e2005-01-12 11:17:16 +0000901 + A line_num attribute has been added to the reader object, which tracks
902 the number of lines read from the source iterator. This is not
903 the same as the number of records returned, as records can span
904 multiple lines.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000905 + reader and writer objects were not being registered with the cyclic-GC.
906 This has been fixed.
907
Brett Cannone6539c42005-01-08 02:43:53 +0000908- _DummyThread objects in the threading module now delete self.__block that is
909 inherited from _Thread since it uses up a lock allocated by 'thread'. The
910 lock primitives tend to be limited in number and thus should not be wasted on
911 a _DummyThread object. Fixes bug #1089632.
912
Raymond Hettinger97db05d2005-01-07 08:15:41 +0000913- The imghdr module now detects Exif files.
914
Raymond Hettinger6065d322004-12-20 23:51:53 +0000915- StringIO.truncate() now correctly adjusts the size attribute.
916 (Bug #951915).
917
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +0000918- locale.py now uses an updated locale alias table (built using
919 Tools/i18n/makelocalealias.py, a tool to parse the X11 locale
920 alias file); the encoding lookup was enhanced to use Python's
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000921 encoding alias table.
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +0000922
Raymond Hettinger3557f422004-12-07 12:02:02 +0000923- moved deprecated modules to Lib/lib-old: whrandom, tzparse, statcache.
924
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +0000925- the pickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
926 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
927
Brett Cannon84667c02004-12-07 03:25:18 +0000928- optparse now optionally imports gettext. This allows its use in setup.py.
929
Raymond Hettinger3489cad2004-12-05 05:20:42 +0000930- the pickle module no longer uses the deprecated bin parameter.
931
Raymond Hettinger1bc82f82004-12-05 03:58:17 +0000932- the shelve module no longer uses the deprecated binary parameter.
933
Raymond Hettinger6c92d762004-12-05 03:28:00 +0000934- the pstats module no longer uses the deprecated ignore() method.
935
Raymond Hettingerf3fa9462004-12-05 01:58:09 +0000936- the filecmp module no longer uses the deprecated use_statcache argument.
937
Raymond Hettinger664347b2004-12-04 21:21:53 +0000938- unittest.TestCase.run() and unittest.TestSuite.run() can now be successfully
939 extended or overridden by subclasses. Formerly, the subclassed method would
940 be ignored by the rest of the module. (Bug #1078905).
941
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000942- heapq.nsmallest() and heapq.nlargest() now support key= arguments with
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +0000943 the same meaning as in list.sort().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000944
Walter Dörwald36733692004-12-22 12:50:50 +0000945- Bug #1076985: ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` now calls ``read()`` only
946 once when a size argument is given. This prevents a buffer overflow in the
947 tokenizer with very long source lines.
948
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +0000949- Bug #1083110: ``zlib.decompress.flush()`` would segfault if called
950 immediately after creating the object, without any intervening
951 ``.decompress()`` calls.
Andrew M. Kuchling3b585b32004-12-28 20:10:48 +0000952
Skip Montanaro05885812005-01-16 20:48:27 +0000953- The reconvert.quote function can now emit triple-quoted strings. The
954 reconvert module now has some simple documentation.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000955
Walter Dörwaldaf3b39a2005-02-18 13:22:43 +0000956- ``UserString.MutableString`` now supports negative indices in
957 ``__setitem__`` and ``__delitem__``
958
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +0000959- Bug #1149508: ``textwrap`` now handles hyphenated numbers (eg. "2004-03-05")
960 correctly.
961
Walter Dörwaldbc8e6422005-04-21 21:32:03 +0000962- Partial fixes for SF bugs #1163244 and #1175396: If a chunk read by
963 ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` has a trailing "\r", read one more
964 character even if the user has passed a size parameter to get a proper
965 line ending. Remove the special handling of a "\r\n" that has been split
966 between two lines.
967
Walter Dörwalda47d1c02005-08-30 10:23:14 +0000968- Bug #1251300: On UCS-4 builds the "unicode-internal" codec will now complain
969 about illegal code points. The codec now supports PEP 293 style error
970 handlers.
971
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +0000972- Bug #1235646: ``codecs.StreamRecoder.next()`` now reencodes the data it reads
Walter Dörwaldc5238b82005-09-01 11:56:53 +0000973 from the input stream, so that the output is a byte string in the correct
974 encoding instead of a unicode string.
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +0000975
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +0000976- Bug #1202493: Fixing SRE parser to handle '{}' as perl does, rather than
977 considering it exactly like a '*'.
978
Walter Dörwald007f8df2005-10-09 19:42:27 +0000979- Bug #1245379: Add "unicode-1-1-utf-7" as an alias for "utf-7" to
980 ``encodings.aliases``.
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +0000981
Walter Dörwald09f0dd52005-11-21 19:10:07 +0000982- ` uu.encode()`` and ``uu.decode()`` now support unicode filenames.
983
Gustavo Niemeyer548148812006-01-31 18:34:13 +0000984- Patch #1413711: Certain patterns of differences were making difflib
985 touch the recursion limit.
986
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +0000987- Bug #947906: An object oriented interface has been added to the calendar
988 module. It's possible to generate HTML calendar now and the module can be
Walter Dörwald48d5e502006-04-01 07:57:00 +0000989 called as a script (e.g. via ``python -mcalendar``). Localized month and
990 weekday names can be ouput (even if an exotic encoding is used) using
991 special classes that use unicode.
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +0000992
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000993Build
994-----
995
Neal Norwitz602d3392006-03-31 08:21:40 +0000996- Fix test_float, test_long, and test_struct failures on Tru64 with gcc
997 by using -mieee gcc option.
998
Martin v. Löwis86d66262006-02-17 08:40:11 +0000999- Patch #1432345: Make python compile on DragonFly.
1000
Martin v. Löwis856bf9a2006-02-14 20:42:55 +00001001- Build support for Win64-AMD64 was added.
1002
Martin v. Löwisa55e55e2006-02-11 15:55:14 +00001003- Patch #1428494: Prefer linking against ncursesw over ncurses library.
1004
Martin v. Löwisfd9a72a2006-01-08 10:07:33 +00001005- Patch #881820: look for openpty and forkpty also in libbsd.
1006
Martin v. Löwis64c33dd2006-01-03 07:42:14 +00001007- The sources of zlib are now part of the Python distribution (zlib 1.2.3).
1008 The zlib module is now builtin on Windows.
1009
Martin v. Löwisd5845ec2005-12-30 12:31:38 +00001010- Use -xcode=pic32 for CCSHARED on Solaris with SunPro.
1011
Martin v. Löwis147fbe52005-08-07 21:09:30 +00001012- Bug #1189330: configure did not correctly determine the necessary
1013 value of LINKCC if python was built with GCC 4.0.
1014
Trent Mick8321b422005-07-26 02:29:21 +00001015- Upgrade Windows build to zlib 1.2.3 which eliminates a potential security
1016 vulnerability in zlib 1.2.1 and 1.2.2.
1017
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +00001018- EXTRA_CFLAGS has been introduced as an environment variable to hold compiler
1019 flags that change binary compatibility. Changes were also made to
1020 distutils.sysconfig to also use the environment variable when used during
Martin v. Löwisd7c795e2005-04-25 07:14:03 +00001021 compilation of the interpreter and of C extensions through distutils.
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +00001022
Bob Ippolitoed233462005-03-29 13:47:59 +00001023- SF patch 1171735: Darwin 8's headers are anal about POSIX compliance,
1024 and linking has changed (prebinding is now deprecated, and libcc_dynamic
1025 no longer exists). This configure patch makes things right.
1026
Martin v. Löwise2713be2005-03-08 15:03:08 +00001027- Bug #1158607: Build with --disable-unicode again.
1028
Brett Cannon46d96232005-02-16 00:07:19 +00001029- spwdmodule.c is built only if either HAVE_GETSPNAM or HAVE_HAVE_GETSPENT is
1030 defined. Discovered as a result of not being able to build on OS X.
1031
Brett Cannon516592f2004-12-07 00:42:59 +00001032- setup.py now uses the directories specified in LDFLAGS using the -L option
1033 and in CPPFLAGS using the -I option for adding library and include
1034 directories, respectively, for compiling extension modules against. This has
1035 led to the core being compiled using the values in CPPFLAGS. It also removes
1036 the need for the special-casing of both DarwinPorts and Fink for darwin since
1037 the proper directories can be specified in LDFLAGS (``-L/sw/lib`` for Fink,
1038 ``-L/opt/local/lib`` for DarwinPorts) and CPPFLAGS (``-I/sw/include`` for
1039 Fink, ``-I/opt/local/include`` for DarwinPorts).
1040
Brett Cannon43802422005-02-10 20:48:03 +00001041- Test in configure.in that checks for tzset no longer dependent on tm->tm_zone
1042 to exist in the struct (not required by either ISO C nor the UNIX 2 spec).
1043 Tests for sanity in tzname when HAVE_TZNAME defined were also defined.
1044 Closes bug #1096244. Thanks Gregory Bond.
1045
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001046C API
1047-----
1048
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +00001049- ``PyMem_{Del, DEL}`` and ``PyMem_{Free, FREE}`` no longer map to
1050 ``PyObject_{Free, FREE}``. They map to the system ``free()`` now. If memory
1051 is obtained via the ``PyObject_`` family, it must be released via the
1052 ``PyObject_`` family, and likewise for the ``PyMem_`` family. This has
1053 always been officially true, but when Python's small-object allocator was
1054 introduced, an attempt was made to cater to a few extension modules
1055 discovered at the time that obtained memory via ``PyObject_New`` but
1056 released it via ``PyMem_DEL``. It's years later, and if such code still
1057 exists it will fail now (probably with segfaults, but calling wrong
1058 low-level memory management functions can yield many symptoms).
1059
Raymond Hettingerbeb31012005-08-16 03:47:52 +00001060- Added a C API for set and frozenset objects.
1061
Raymond Hettinger66517482004-12-03 11:45:13 +00001062- Removed PyRange_New().
1063
Walter Dörwaldd1c1e102005-10-06 20:29:57 +00001064- Patch #1313939: PyUnicode_DecodeCharmap() accepts a unicode string as the
1065 mapping argument now. This string is used as a mapping table. Byte values
1066 greater than the length of the string and 0xFFFE are treated as undefined
1067 mappings.
1068
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001069
1070Tests
1071-----
1072
Martin v. Löwis4d394df2005-01-23 09:19:22 +00001073- In test_os, st_?time is now truncated before comparing it with ST_?TIME.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001074
Hye-Shik Changaaa2f1d2005-12-10 17:44:27 +00001075- Patch #1276356: New resource "urlfetch" is implemented. This enables
1076 even impatient people to run tests that require remote files.
1077
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00001078
1079Documentation
1080-------------
1081
Georg Brandl8cb30772006-01-20 09:34:29 +00001082- Bug #1402224: Add warning to dl docs about crashes.
1083
Georg Brandla3a93ae2006-01-20 09:14:36 +00001084- Bug #1396471: Document that Windows' ftell() can return invalid
1085 values for text files with UNIX-style line endings.
1086
Georg Brandl32252422005-09-14 20:42:00 +00001087- Bug #1274828: Document os.path.splitunc().
1088
Georg Brandl79c122f2005-08-24 07:31:33 +00001089- Bug #1190204: Clarify which directories are searched by site.py.
1090
Georg Brandl6f2bbd32005-08-24 07:26:55 +00001091- Bug #1193849: Clarify os.path.expanduser() documentation.
1092
Georg Brandlf13c4ba2005-08-02 10:28:08 +00001093- Bug #1243192: re.UNICODE and re.LOCALE affect \d, \D, \s and \S.
1094
Georg Brandl150db732005-07-18 08:53:17 +00001095- Bug #755617: Document the effects of os.chown() on Windows.
1096
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001097- Patch #1180012: The documentation for modulefinder is now in the library reference.
1098
1099- Patch #1213031: Document that os.chown() accepts argument values of -1.
1100
1101- Bug #1190563: Document os.waitpid() return value with WNOHANG flag.
1102
1103- Bug #1175022: Correct the example code for property().
1104
Georg Brandl40c71652005-06-25 21:08:46 +00001105- Document the IterableUserDict class in the UserDict module.
1106 Closes bug #1166582.
1107
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00001108- Remove all latent references for "Macintosh" that referred to semantics for
1109 Mac OS 9 and change to reflect the state for OS X.
1110 Closes patch #1095802. Thanks Jack Jansen.
1111
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001112Mac
1113---
1114
1115
Hye-Shik Chang4e422812005-07-17 02:36:59 +00001116New platforms
1117-------------
1118
1119- FreeBSD 7 support is added.
1120
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001121
1122Tools/Demos
1123-----------
1124
Brett Cannonacde7342006-03-01 04:28:00 +00001125- Created Misc/Vim/vim_syntax.py to auto-generate a python.vim file in that
1126 directory for syntax highlighting in Vim. Vim directory was added and placed
1127 vimrc to it (was previous up a level).
1128
Georg Brandl56897312005-08-24 18:32:30 +00001129- Added two new files to Tools/scripts: pysource.py, which recursively
1130 finds Python source files, and findnocoding.py, which finds Python
1131 source files that need an encoding declaration.
1132 Patch #784089, credits to Oleg Broytmann.
1133
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001134- Bug #1072853: pindent.py used an uninitialized variable.
1135
Martin v. Löwisab9ec162005-04-09 10:53:34 +00001136- Patch #1177597: Correct Complex.__init__.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001137
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +00001138- Fixed a display glitch in Pynche, which could cause the right arrow to
1139 wiggle over by a pixel.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001140
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00001141----
1142
1143**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**