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Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00007What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1?
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Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +000010*Release date: XX-XXX-2006*
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Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +000012Core and builtins
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Georg Brandlccadf842006-03-31 18:54:53 +000015- Patch #1460496: round() now accepts keyword arguments.
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Anthony Baxter262c00a2006-03-30 10:53:17 +000017- Fixed bug #1459029 - unicode reprs were double-escaped.
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Hye-Shik Changd478f342006-03-23 12:32:36 +000019- Patch #1396919: The system scope threads are reenabled on FreeBSD
20 5.4 and later versions.
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Neal Norwitze98ccf62006-03-23 05:39:47 +000022- Bug #1115379: Compiling a Unicode string with an encoding declaration
23 now gives a SyntaxError.
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Georg Brandlabd1ff82006-03-18 07:59:59 +000025- Previously, Python code had no easy way to access the contents of a
26 cell object. Now, a ``cell_contents`` attribute has been added
27 (closes patch #1170323).
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Tim Peterscf79aac2006-03-16 01:14:46 +000029- Patch #1123430: Python's small-object allocator now returns an arena to
30 the system ``free()`` when all memory within an arena becomes unused
31 again. Prior to Python 2.5, arenas (256KB chunks of memory) were never
32 freed. Some applications will see a drop in virtual memory size now,
33 especially long-running applications that, from time to time, temporarily
34 use a large number of small objects. Note that when Python returns an
35 arena to the platform C's ``free()``, there's no guarantee that the
36 platform C will in turn return that memory to the operating system. The
37 effect of the patch is to stop making that impossible, and in tests it
38 appears to be effective at least on Microsoft C and gcc-based systems.
39 Thanks to Evan Jones for hard work and patience.
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Georg Brandl533ff6f2006-03-08 18:09:27 +000041- Patch #1434038: property() now uses the getter's docstring if there is
42 no "doc" argument given. This makes it possible to legitimately use
43 property() as a decorator to produce a read-only property.
44
Guido van Rossum9aa37ab2006-03-07 18:54:08 +000045- PEP 357, patch 1436368: add an __index__ method to int/long and a matching
46 nb_index slot to the PyNumberMethods struct. The slot is consulted instead
47 of requiring an int or long in slicing and a few other contexts, enabling
48 other objects (e.g. Numeric Python's integers) to be used as slice indices.
49
Neal Norwitz995acdf2006-03-07 05:01:00 +000050- Fixed various bugs reported by Coverity's Prevent tool.
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Brett Cannonbf364092006-03-01 04:25:17 +000052- PEP 352, patch #1104669: Make exceptions new-style objects. Introduced the
53 new exception base class, BaseException, which has a new message attribute.
54 KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit to directly inherit from BaseException now.
55 Raising a string exception now raises a DeprecationWarning.
56
Thomas Woutersfb609f42006-02-28 16:37:25 +000057- Patch #1438387, PEP 328: relative and absolute imports. Imports can now be
58 explicitly relative, using 'from .module import name' to mean 'from the same
59 package as this module is in. Imports without dots still default to the
60 old relative-then-absolute, unless 'from __future__ import
61 absolute_import' is used.
62
Brett Cannona7446e32006-02-27 23:39:10 +000063- Properly check if 'warnings' raises an exception (usually when a filter set
64 to "error" is triggered) when raising a warning for raising string
65 exceptions.
66
Neal Norwitz0023a2f2006-02-27 23:24:48 +000067- CO_GENERATOR_ALLOWED is no longer defined, this behavior is the default.
68 The name was removed from Include/code.h.
69
Neal Norwitzeb651252006-02-27 16:47:12 +000070- PEP 308: conditional expressions were added (x if cond else y).
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Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +000072- Patch 1433928:
73 - The copy module now "copies" function objects (as atomic objects).
74 - dict.__getitem__ now looks for a __missing__ hook before raising
75 KeyError.
76
Tim Peters84ef21c2006-02-28 20:39:06 +000077- PEP 343: with statement implemented. Needs ``from __future__ import
78 with_statement``. Use of 'with' as a variable will generate a warning.
79 Use of 'as' as a variable will also generate a warning (unless it's
Neal Norwitz055ec242006-02-28 20:06:49 +000080 part of an import statement).
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +000081 The following objects have __context__ methods:
82 - The built-in file type.
83 - The thread.LockType type.
84 - The following types defined by the threading module:
85 Lock, RLock, Condition, Semaphore, BoundedSemaphore.
86 - The decimal.Context class.
Guido van Rossumc2e20742006-02-27 22:32:47 +000087
Marc-André Lemburgfe4b34c2006-02-19 15:22:22 +000088- Fix the encodings package codec search function to only search
89 inside its own package. Fixes problem reported in patch #1433198.
90
91 Note: Codec packages should implement and register their own
92 codec search function. PEP 100 has the details.
93
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +000094- PEP 353: Using ssize_t as the index type.
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Neal Norwitzfc76d632006-01-10 06:03:13 +000096- Patch #1400181, fix unicode string formatting to not use the locale.
97 This is how string objects work. u'%f' could use , instead of .
98 for the decimal point. Now both strings and unicode always use periods.
99
Neal Norwitz671b9e32006-01-09 07:07:12 +0000100- Bug #1244610, #1392915, fix build problem on OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.8.
101 configure would break checking curses.h.
102
Georg Brandlcd4d1e82005-12-27 17:37:07 +0000103- Bug #959576: The pwd module is now builtin. This allows Python to be
104 built on UNIX platforms without $HOME set.
105
Neal Norwitzc10978f2005-12-19 06:07:16 +0000106- Bug #1072182, fix some potential problems if characters are signed.
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Neal Norwitz5d0ad502005-12-19 04:27:42 +0000108- Bug #889500, fix line number on SyntaxWarning for global declarations.
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Neal Norwitzdb83eb32005-12-18 05:29:30 +0000110- Bug #1378022, UTF-8 files with a leading BOM crashed the interpreter.
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Neal Norwitze7214a12005-12-18 05:03:17 +0000112- Support for converting hex strings to floats no longer works.
113 This was not portable. float('0x3') now raises a ValueError.
114
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000115- Patch #1382163: Expose Subversion revision number to Python. New C API
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +0000116 function Py_GetBuildNumber(). New attribute sys.subversion. Build number
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000117 is now displayed in interactive prompt banner.
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Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000119- Implementation of PEP 341 - Unification of try/except and try/finally.
120 "except" clauses can now be written together with a "finally" clause in
Neal Norwitz11ca77e2005-12-17 22:24:12 +0000121 one try statement instead of two nested ones. Patch #1355913.
Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000122
Hye-Shik Chang835b2432005-12-17 04:38:31 +0000123- Bug #1379994: Builtin unicode_escape and raw_unicode_escape codec
124 now encodes backslash correctly.
125
Martin v. Löwisb45b3152005-11-28 17:34:23 +0000126- Patch #1350409: Work around signal handling bug in Visual Studio 2005.
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Georg Brandlf06e30a2005-11-24 15:37:42 +0000128- Bug #1281408: Py_BuildValue now works correct even with unsigned longs
129 and long longs.
130
Neal Norwitz67715f02005-11-09 06:59:35 +0000131- SF Bug #1350188, "setdlopenflags" leads to crash upon "import"
132 It was possible dlerror() returns a NULL pointer, use a default error
133 message in this case.
134
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000135- Replaced most Unicode charmap codecs with new ones using the
136 new Unicode translate string feature in the builtin charmap
137 codec; the codecs were created from the mapping tables available
138 at ftp.unicode.org and contain a few updates (e.g. the Mac OS
139 encodings now include a mapping for the Apple logo)
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Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000141- Added a few more codecs for Mac OS encodings
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000142
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000143- Speed up some Unicode operations.
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Martin v. Löwisbd260da2006-02-26 19:42:26 +0000145- A new AST parser implementation was completed. The abstract
146 syntax tree is available for read-only (non-compile) access
Martin v. Löwis577b5b92006-02-27 15:23:19 +0000147 to Python code; an _ast module was added.
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000148
Neal Norwitzb6570f52005-10-21 06:26:10 +0000149- SF bug #1167751: fix incorrect code being for generator expressions.
Neal Norwitz16af7342005-10-21 06:25:33 +0000150 The following code now raises a SyntaxError: foo(a = i for i in range(10))
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Neal Norwitz708e51a2005-10-03 04:48:15 +0000152- SF Bug #976608: fix SystemError when mtime of an imported file is -1.
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Neal Norwitz11bd1192005-10-03 00:54:56 +0000154- SF Bug #887946: fix segfault when redirecting stdin from a directory.
155 Provide a warning when a directory is passed on the command line.
156
Neal Norwitz40d37812005-10-02 01:48:49 +0000157- Fix segfault with invalid coding.
158
159- SF bug #772896: unknown encoding results in MemoryError.
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Raymond Hettinger6b27cda2005-09-24 21:23:05 +0000161- All iterators now have a Boolean value of true. Formerly, some iterators
162 supported a __len__() method which evaluated to False when the iterator
163 was empty.
164
Guido van Rossum630db602005-09-20 18:49:54 +0000165- On 64-bit platforms, when __len__() returns a value that cannot be
166 represented as a C int, raise OverflowError.
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Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000168- test__locale is skipped on OS X < 10.4 (only partial locale support is
Walter Dörwald6611a8b2005-10-09 19:28:35 +0000169 present).
Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000170
Georg Brandl80bbf3f2005-09-14 19:38:29 +0000171- SF bug #893549: parsing keyword arguments was broken with a few format
172 codes.
173
Guido van Rossum8ee3e5a2005-09-14 18:09:42 +0000174- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on AIX 5.3
175 with IBM's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1284289). This also closes SF
176 bug #105470: test_pwd fails on 64bit system (Opteron).
177
Guido van Rossum539c6622005-09-14 17:49:54 +0000178- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on HP-UX 11 on
179 Itanium2 with HP's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1225212).
180
Georg Brandl4550b8d2005-08-26 06:43:52 +0000181- Disallow keyword arguments for type constructors that don't use them
Georg Brandl02c42872005-08-26 06:42:30 +0000182 (fixes bug #1119418).
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Martin v. Löwisd35edda2005-08-24 08:39:24 +0000184- Forward UnicodeDecodeError into SyntaxError for source encoding errors.
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Barry Warsawe2eca0b2005-08-15 18:14:19 +0000186- SF bug #900092: When tracing (e.g. for hotshot), restore 'return' events for
187 exceptions that cause a function to exit.
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Raymond Hettinger9f1a6792005-07-31 01:16:36 +0000189- The implementation of set() and frozenset() was revised to use its
190 own internal data structure. Memory consumption is reduced by 1/3
191 and there are modest speed-ups as well. The API is unchanged.
192
Tim Petersde7990b2005-07-17 23:45:23 +0000193- SF bug #1238681: freed pointer is used in longobject.c:long_pow().
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Michael W. Hudson0edc7a02005-07-12 10:21:19 +0000195- SF bug #1229429: PyObject_CallMethod failed to decrement some
196 reference counts in some error exit cases.
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Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000198- SF bug #1185883: Python's small-object memory allocator took over
199 a block managed by the platform C library whenever a realloc specified
200 a small new size. However, there's no portable way to know then how
201 much of the address space following the pointer is valid, so no
202 portable way to copy data from the C-managed block into Python's
203 small-object space without risking a memory fault. Python's small-object
204 realloc now leaves such blocks under the control of the platform C
205 realloc.
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Michael W. Hudsonb8963812005-07-05 15:21:58 +0000207- SF bug #1232517: An overflow error was not detected properly when
208 attempting to convert a large float to an int in os.utime().
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Raymond Hettinger3296e692005-06-29 23:29:56 +0000210- SF bug #1224347: hex longs now print with lowercase letters just
211 like their int counterparts.
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Michael W. Hudson188d4362005-06-20 16:52:57 +0000213- SF bug #1163563: the original fix for bug #1010677 ("thread Module
214 Breaks PyGILState_Ensure()") broke badly in the case of multiple
215 interpreter states; back out that fix and do a better job (see
216 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-June/054258.html
217 for a longer write-up of the problem).
218
Michael W. Hudsondf888462005-06-03 14:41:55 +0000219- SF patch #1180995: marshal now uses a binary format by default when
220 serializing floats.
221
Michael W. Hudsonda85a902005-06-01 11:34:22 +0000222- SF patch #1181301: on platforms that appear to use IEEE 754 floats,
223 the routines that promise to produce IEEE 754 binary representations
224 of floats now simply copy bytes around.
225
Skip Montanarobbf12ba2005-05-20 03:07:06 +0000226- bug #967182: disallow opening files with 'wU' or 'aU' as specified by PEP
227 278.
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Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000229- patch #1109424: int, long, float, complex, and unicode now check for the
230 proper magic slot for type conversions when subclassed. Previously the
231 magic slot was ignored during conversion. Semantics now match the way
232 subclasses of str always behaved. int/long/float, conversion of an instance
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +0000233 to the base class has been moved to the proper nb_* magic slot and out of
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000234 PyNumber_*().
235 Thanks Walter Dörwald.
236
Barry Warsawc8d907c2005-04-19 23:43:40 +0000237- Descriptors defined in C with a PyGetSetDef structure, where the setter is
238 NULL, now raise an AttributeError when attempting to set or delete the
239 attribute. Previously a TypeError was raised, but this was inconsistent
240 with the equivalent pure-Python implementation.
241
Michael W. Hudson774479c2005-04-18 08:46:17 +0000242- It is now safe to call PyGILState_Release() before
243 PyEval_InitThreads() (note that if there is reason to believe there
244 are multiple threads around you still must call PyEval_InitThreads()
245 before using the Python API; this fix is for extension modules that
246 have no way of knowing if Python is multi-threaded yet).
247
Michael W. Hudsone3afc592005-04-07 10:11:19 +0000248- Typing Ctrl-C whilst raw_input() was waiting in a build with threads
249 disabled caused a crash.
250
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +0000251- Bug #1165306: instancemethod_new allowed the creation of a method
252 with im_class == im_self == NULL, which caused a crash when called.
253
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000254- Move exception finalisation later in the shutdown process - this
Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +0000255 fixes the crash seen in bug #1165761
256
Raymond Hettinger96229b12005-03-11 06:49:40 +0000257- Added two new builtins, any() and all().
258
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +0000259- Defining a class with empty parentheses is now allowed
Brett Cannonf4189912005-04-09 02:30:16 +0000260 (e.g., ``class C(): pass`` is no longer a syntax error).
261 Patch #1176012 added support to the 'parser' module and 'compiler' package
262 (thanks to logistix for that added support).
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +0000263
Martin v. Löwis96d743e2005-03-03 23:00:26 +0000264- Patch #1115086: Support PY_LONGLONG in structmember.
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Raymond Hettingerb67cc802005-03-03 16:45:19 +0000266- Bug #1155938: new style classes did not check that __init__() was
267 returning None.
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Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000269- Patch #802188: Report characters after line continuation character
Martin v. Löwis4bf108d2005-03-03 11:45:45 +0000270 ('\') with a specific error message.
271
Martin v. Löwisff232d72005-03-03 09:24:38 +0000272- Bug #723201: Raise a TypeError for passing bad objects to 'L' format.
273
Michael W. Hudson8e1afab2005-02-17 14:55:21 +0000274- Bug #1124295: the __name__ attribute of file objects was
275 inadvertently made inaccessible in restricted mode.
276
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000277- Bug #1074011: closing sys.std{out,err} now causes a flush() and
Martin v. Löwis8e3ca8a2005-01-23 09:41:49 +0000278 an ferror() call.
279
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +0000280- min() and max() now support key= arguments with the same meaning as in
281 list.sort().
282
Raymond Hettingerc34f8672005-01-02 06:17:33 +0000283- The peephole optimizer now performs simple constant folding in expressions:
284 (2+3) --> (5).
285
Raymond Hettingera422c342005-01-11 03:03:27 +0000286- set and frozenset objects can now be marshalled. SF #1098985.
287
Michael W. Hudsonfaa76482005-01-31 17:09:25 +0000288- Bug #1077106: Poor argument checking could cause memory corruption
289 in calls to os.read().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000290
Jeremy Hyltonab630502005-02-04 18:44:06 +0000291- The parser did not complain about future statements in illegal
292 positions. It once again reports a syntax error if a future
293 statement occurs after anything other than a doc string.
294
Neil Schemenauercf52c072005-08-12 17:34:58 +0000295- Change the %s format specifier for str objects so that it returns a
296 unicode instance if the argument is not an instance of basestring and
297 calling __str__ on the argument returns a unicode instance.
298
Tim Petersf4e69282006-02-27 17:15:31 +0000299- Patch #1413181: changed ``PyThreadState_Delete()`` to forget about the
300 current thread state when the auto-GIL-state machinery knows about
301 it (since the thread state is being deleted, continuing to remember it
302 can't help, but can hurt if another thread happens to get created with
303 the same thread id).
304
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000305Extension Modules
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Georg Brandl43f08a82006-03-31 18:01:16 +0000308- Patch #1380952: fix SSL objects timing out on consecutive read()s
309
Neal Norwitz05a45592006-03-20 06:30:08 +0000310- Patch #1309579: wait3 and wait4 were added to the posix module.
311
Anthony Baxterfa869072006-03-20 05:21:58 +0000312- Patch #1231053: The audioop module now supports encoding/decoding of alaw.
313 In addition, the existing ulaw code was updated.
314
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +0000315- RFE #567972: Socket objects' family, type and proto properties are
Georg Brandl72d7a782006-03-22 06:44:14 +0000316 now exposed via new attributes.
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +0000317
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +0000318- Everything under lib-old was removed. This includes the following modules:
319 Para, addpack, cmp, cmpcache, codehack, dircmp, dump, find, fmt, grep,
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +0000320 lockfile, newdir, ni, packmail, poly, rand, statcache, tb, tzparse,
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +0000321 util, whatsound, whrandom, zmod
322
323- The following modules were removed: regsub, reconvert, regex, regex_syntax.
324
325- re and sre were swapped, so help(re) provides full help. importing sre
Neal Norwitzefbeaef2006-03-16 06:40:39 +0000326 is deprecated. The undocumented re.engine variable no longer exists.
327
Hye-Shik Changabb903f2006-03-13 10:20:08 +0000328- Bug #1448490: Fixed a bug that ISO-2022 codecs could not handle
329 SS2 (single-shift 2) escape sequences correctly.
330
Martin v. Löwis480f1bb2006-03-09 23:38:20 +0000331- The unicodedata module was updated to the 4.1 version of the Unicode
332 database. The 3.2 version is still available as unicodedata.db_3_2_0
333 for applications that require this specific version (such as IDNA).
334
Neal Norwitzb62c4332006-03-04 18:35:47 +0000335- The timing module is no longer built by default. It was deprecated
336 in PEP 4 in Python 2.0 or earlier.
337
Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +0000338- Patch 1433928: Added a new type, defaultdict, to the collections module.
339 This uses the new __missing__ hook behavior added to dict (see above).
340
Georg Brandldbd83392006-02-20 09:42:33 +0000341- Bug #854823: socketmodule now builds on Sun platforms even when
342 INET_ADDRSTRLEN is not defined.
343
Georg Brandlf4f44152006-02-18 22:29:33 +0000344- Patch #1393157: os.startfile() now has an optional argument to specify
345 a "command verb" to invoke on the file.
346
Neal Norwitz082b2df2006-02-07 07:04:46 +0000347- Bug #876637, prevent stack corruption when socket descriptor
348 is larger than FD_SETSIZE.
349
Neal Norwitz0e6bc8c2006-02-05 05:45:43 +0000350- Patch #1407135, bug #1424041: harmonize mmap behavior of anonymous memory.
351 mmap.mmap(-1, size) now returns anonymous memory in both Unix and Windows.
352 mmap.mmap(0, size) should not be used on Windows for anonymous memory.
353
Martin v. Löwis57a34e82006-02-04 19:12:37 +0000354- Patch #1422385: The nis module now supports access to domains other
355 than the system default domain.
356
Martin v. Löwis14694662006-02-03 12:54:16 +0000357- Use Win32 API to implement os.stat/fstat. As a result, subsecond timestamps
358 are reported, the limit on path name lengths is removed, and stat reports
359 WindowsError now (instead of OSError).
360
Gregory P. Smithcfc4a8d2006-01-29 19:46:23 +0000361- Add bsddb.db.DBEnv.set_tx_timestamp allowing time based database recovery.
362
Neal Norwitz62a21122006-01-25 05:21:55 +0000363- Bug #1413192, fix seg fault in bsddb if a transaction was deleted
364 before the env.
365
Martin v. Löwis11017b12006-01-14 18:12:57 +0000366- Patch #1103116: Basic AF_NETLINK support.
367
Neal Norwitz3b4fff82006-01-11 08:54:45 +0000368- Bug #1402308, (possible) segfault when using mmap.mmap(-1, ...)
369
Neal Norwitz88bbd732006-01-10 07:05:44 +0000370- Bug #1400822, _curses over{lay,write} doesn't work when passing 6 ints.
371 Also fix ungetmouse() which did not accept arguments properly.
372 The code now conforms to the documented signature.
373
Neal Norwitz5e3d8622006-01-09 06:24:35 +0000374- Bug #1400115, Fix segfault when calling curses.panel.userptr()
375 without prior setting of the userptr.
376
Neal Norwitz40c6b472006-01-05 05:43:35 +0000377- Fix 64-bit problems in bsddb.
378
Neal Norwitz8856fb72005-12-18 03:34:22 +0000379- Patch #1365916: fix some unsafe 64-bit mmap methods.
380
Hye-Shik Changc5c57e62005-12-12 11:48:32 +0000381- Bug #1290333: Added a workaround for cjkcodecs' _codecs_cn build
382 problem on AIX.
383
Georg Brandla13c2442005-11-22 19:30:31 +0000384- Bug #869197: os.setgroups rejects long integer arguments
385
Neal Norwitz0f46bbf2005-11-03 05:00:25 +0000386- Bug #1346533, select.poll() doesn't raise an error if timeout > sys.maxint
387
Neal Norwitz7b631792005-11-02 05:26:07 +0000388- Bug #1344508, Fix UNIX mmap leaking file descriptors
389
Neal Norwitzf3396542005-10-28 05:52:22 +0000390- Patch #1338314, Bug #1336623: fix tarfile so it can extract
391 REGTYPE directories from tarfiles written by old programs.
392
Gregory P. Smithe101df92006-01-24 20:09:45 +0000393- Patch #1407992, fixes broken bsddb module db associate when using
394 BerkeleyDB 3.3, 4.0 or 4.1.
395
396- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 4.4
397
398- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 3.2
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000399
Neal Norwitz484d9a42005-09-30 04:46:49 +0000400- Patch #1309009, Fix segfault in pyexpat when the XML document is in latin_1,
401 but Python incorrectly assumes it is in UTF-8 format
402
Georg Brandle677adc2005-09-29 13:40:49 +0000403- Fix parse errors in the readline module when compiling without threads.
404
Hye-Shik Chang9ceebd52005-09-24 14:58:47 +0000405- Patch #1288833: Removed thread lock from socket.getaddrinfo on
406 FreeBSD 5.3 and later versions which got thread-safe getaddrinfo(3).
407
Michael W. Hudson10402a32005-09-22 09:19:01 +0000408- Patches #1298449 and #1298499: Add some missing checks for error
409 returns in cStringIO.c.
410
Neal Norwitz058bde12005-09-21 06:44:25 +0000411- Patch #1297028: fix segfault if call type on MultibyteCodec,
412 MultibyteStreamReader, or MultibyteStreamWriter
413
Neal Norwitzcfe7dd92005-09-19 06:49:27 +0000414- Fix memory leak in posix.access().
415
Martin v. Löwis8b291e22005-09-18 08:17:56 +0000416- Patch #1213831: Fix typo in unicodedata._getcode.
417
Georg Brandlfb1ef852005-09-14 20:53:32 +0000418- Bug #1007046: os.startfile() did not accept unicode strings encoded in
419 the file system encoding.
420
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +0000421- Patch #756021: Special-case socket.inet_aton('255.255.255.255') for
422 platforms that don't have inet_aton().
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +0000423
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +0000424- Bug #1215928: Fix bz2.BZ2File.seek() for 64-bit file offsets.
425
426- Bug #1191043: Fix bz2.BZ2File.(x)readlines for files containing one
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +0000427 line without newlines.
428
Georg Brandl38387b82005-08-24 07:17:40 +0000429- Bug #728515: mmap.resize() now resizes the file on Unix as it did
430 on Windows.
431
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000432- Patch #1180695: Add nanosecond stat resolution, and st_gen,
Martin v. Löwisebd9d5b2005-08-09 15:00:59 +0000433 st_birthtime for FreeBSD.
434
Michael W. Hudson8137bea2005-07-27 20:24:40 +0000435- Patch #1231069: The fcntl.ioctl function now uses the 'I' code for
436 the request code argument, which results in more C-like behaviour
437 for large or negative values.
438
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000439- Bug #1234979: For the argument of thread.Lock.acquire, the Windows
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000440 implementation treated all integer values except 1 as false.
Georg Brandlaf410b52005-07-08 22:26:13 +0000441
Georg Brandl6b95f1d2005-06-03 19:47:00 +0000442- Bug #1194181: bz2.BZ2File didn't handle mode 'U' correctly.
443
Hye-Shik Chang5f937a72005-06-02 13:09:30 +0000444- Patch #1212117: os.stat().st_flags is now accessible as a attribute
445 if available on the platform.
446
Skip Montanaro5ff14922005-05-16 02:42:22 +0000447- Patch #1103951: Expose O_SHLOCK and O_EXLOCK in the posix module if
448 available on the platform.
449
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +0000450- Bug #1166660: The readline module could segfault if hook functions
451 were set in a different thread than that which called readline.
452
Raymond Hettinger4aec61e2005-03-18 21:20:23 +0000453- collections.deque objects now support a remove() method.
454
Raymond Hettinger984f9bb2005-03-09 16:38:48 +0000455- operator.itemgetter() and operator.attrgetter() now support retrieving
456 multiple fields. This provides direct support for sorting on multiple
457 keys (primary, secondary, etc).
458
Martin v. Löwisb60ae992005-03-08 09:10:29 +0000459- os.access now supports Unicode path names on non-Win32 systems.
460
Martin v. Löwisfd78a6f2005-03-04 14:37:01 +0000461- Patches #925152, #1118602: Avoid reading after the end of the buffer
462 in pyexpat.GetInputContext.
463
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000464- Patches #749830, #1144555: allow UNIX mmap size to default to current
Martin v. Löwis7fe60c02005-03-03 11:22:44 +0000465 file size.
466
Raymond Hettinger9c323f82005-02-28 19:39:44 +0000467- Added functional.partial(). See PEP309.
468
Martin v. Löwis9533e342005-02-27 20:33:25 +0000469- Patch #1093585: raise a ValueError for negative history items in readline.
470 {remove_history,replace_history}
471
Fred Drake9c131f22005-01-23 15:16:08 +0000472- The spwd module has been added, allowing access to the shadow password
473 database.
Martin v. Löwisc3001752005-01-23 09:27:24 +0000474
Martin v. Löwisfe33d0b2005-01-16 08:57:39 +0000475- stat_float_times is now True.
476
Raymond Hettingerb0900e62004-12-16 16:23:40 +0000477- array.array objects are now picklable.
478
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +0000479- the cPickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
480 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
481
Raymond Hettingerb2594052004-12-05 09:25:51 +0000482- itertools.islice() now accepts None for the start and step arguments.
483 This allows islice() to work more readily with slices:
484 islice(s.start, s.stop, s.step)
485
Skip Montanaro0af3ade2005-01-13 04:12:31 +0000486- datetime.datetime() now has a strptime class method which can be used to
487 create datetime object using a string and format.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000488
489Library
490-------
491
Anthony Baxterc51ee692006-04-01 00:57:31 +0000492- Added the sqlite3 package. This is based on pysqlite2.1.3, and provides
493 a DB-API interface in the standard library. You'll need sqlite 3.2.2 or
494 later to build this - if you have an earlier version, the C extension
495 module will not be built.
496
Tim Petersc17976e2006-04-01 00:26:53 +0000497- Bug #1460340: ``random.sample(dict)`` failed in various ways. Dicts
498 aren't officially supported here, and trying to use them will probably
499 raise an exception some day. But dicts have been allowed, and "mostly
500 worked", so support for them won't go away without warning.
501
Georg Brandl338ef7d2006-03-31 18:42:16 +0000502- Bug #1445068: getpass.getpass() can now be given an explicit stream
503 argument to specify where to write the prompt.
504
Georg Brandl22ec80b2006-03-31 18:25:44 +0000505- Patch #1462313, bug #1443328: the pickle modules now can handle classes
506 that have __private names in their __slots__.
507
Georg Brandldd2245f2006-03-31 17:18:06 +0000508- Bug #1250170: mimetools now gracefully handles socket.gethostname()
509 failures gracefully.
510
Phillip J. Eby59821cf2006-03-30 02:16:40 +0000511- patch #1457316: "setup.py upload" now supports --identity to select the
512 key to be used for signing the uploaded code.
513
Raymond Hettingerfd3fcf02006-03-24 20:43:29 +0000514- Queue.Queue objects now support .task_done() and .join() methods
515 to make it easier to monitor when daemon threads have completed
516 processing all enqueued tasks. Patch #1455676.
517
Martin v. Löwisbd8dbab2006-03-23 18:18:35 +0000518- popen2.Popen objects now preserve the command in a .cmd attribute.
519
Thomas Hellerc61c0492006-03-22 10:09:27 +0000520- Added the ctypes ffi package.
521
Barry Warsaw4d90bbd2006-03-22 02:45:50 +0000522- email 4.0 package now integrated. This is largely the same as the email 3.0
523 package that was included in Python 2.3, except that PEP 8 module names are
524 now used (e.g. mail.message instead of email.Message). The MIME classes
525 have been moved to a subpackage (e.g. email.mime.text instead of
526 email.MIMEText). The old names are still supported for now. Several
527 deprecated Message methods have been removed and lots of bugs have been
528 fixed. More details can be found in the email package documentation.
529
Walter Dörwald40108c92006-03-27 08:15:44 +0000530- Patches #1436130/#1443155: codecs.lookup() now returns a CodecInfo object
531 (a subclass of tuple) that provides incremental decoders and encoders
532 (a way to use stateful codecs without the stream API). Python functions
533 codecs.getincrementaldecoder() and codecs.getincrementalencoder() as well
534 as C functions PyCodec_IncrementalEncoder() and PyCodec_IncrementalDecoder()
535 have been added.
Walter Dörwaldabb02e52006-03-15 11:35:15 +0000536
Walter Dörwald067db482006-03-15 22:17:27 +0000537- Patch #1359365: Calling next() on a closed StringIO.String object raises
538 a ValueError instead of a StopIteration now (like file and cString.String do).
539 cStringIO.StringIO.isatty() will raise a ValueError now if close() has been
540 called before (like file and StringIO.StringIO do).
Walter Dörwald197e8322006-03-15 22:13:13 +0000541
Martin v. Löwis04824ce2006-03-10 21:26:16 +0000542- A regrtest option -w was added to re-run failed tests in verbose mode.
543
Georg Brandle2b46772006-03-09 23:22:43 +0000544- Patch #1446372: quit and exit can now be called from the interactive
545 interpreter to exit.
546
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +0000547- The function get_count() has been added to the gc module, and gc.collect()
548 grew an optional 'generation' argument.
549
Martin v. Löwisfbab90e2006-03-05 13:36:04 +0000550- A library msilib to generate Windows Installer files, and a distutils
551 command bdist_msi have been added.
552
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +0000553- PEP 343: new module contextlib.py defines decorator @contextmanager
554 and helpful context managers nested() and closing().
555
Martin v. Löwis415ed932006-02-27 19:56:30 +0000556- The compiler package now supports future imports after the module docstring.
557
Georg Brandl8f7c54e2006-02-20 08:40:38 +0000558- Bug #1413790: zipfile now sanitizes absolute archive names that are
559 not allowed by the specs.
560
Georg Brandlc98eeed2006-02-19 14:57:47 +0000561- Patch #1215184: FileInput now can be given an opening hook which can
562 be used to control how files are opened.
563
Georg Brandlc029f872006-02-19 14:12:34 +0000564- Patch #1212287: fileinput.input() now has a mode parameter for
565 specifying the file mode input files should be opened with.
566
Georg Brandl67e9fb92006-02-19 13:56:17 +0000567- Patch #1215184: fileinput now has a fileno() function for getting the
568 current file number.
569
Georg Brandl602b9ba2006-02-19 13:26:36 +0000570- Patch #1349274: gettext.install() now optionally installs additional
571 translation functions other than _() in the builtin namespace.
572
Georg Brandle4662172006-02-19 09:51:27 +0000573- Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames.
574
Georg Brandl7b4e7c22006-02-18 21:10:56 +0000575- Patch #1373643: The chunk module can now read chunks larger than
576 two gigabytes.
577
Georg Brandl21dd1af2006-02-17 13:35:13 +0000578- Patch #1417555: SimpleHTTPServer now returns Last-Modified headers.
579
Georg Brandlbd3bc4d2006-02-17 09:52:53 +0000580- Bug #1430298: It is now possible to send a mail with an empty
581 return address using smtplib.
582
Georg Brandl0e1abe22006-02-17 09:48:14 +0000583- Bug #1432260: The names of lambda functions are now properly displayed
584 in pydoc.
Georg Brandl501dd0d2006-02-17 09:45:40 +0000585
Martin v. Löwis00756902006-02-05 17:09:41 +0000586- Patch #1412872: zipfile now sets the creator system to 3 (Unix)
587 unless the system is Win32.
588
Tim Petersda1329b2006-02-27 16:50:01 +0000589- Patch #1349118: urllib now supports user:pass@ style proxy
Martin v. Löwis3e865952006-01-24 15:51:21 +0000590 specifications, raises IOErrors when proxies for unsupported protocols
591 are defined, and uses the https proxy on https redirections.
592
Georg Brandl531ceba2006-01-21 07:20:56 +0000593- Bug #902075: urllib2 now supports 'host:port' style proxy specifications.
594
595- Bug #1407902: Add support for sftp:// URIs to urlparse.
Georg Brandl89f35ac2006-01-20 17:24:23 +0000596
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000597- Bug #1371247: Update Windows locale identifiers in locale.py.
598
Neal Norwitzf60cd472006-01-14 07:05:13 +0000599- Bug #1394565: SimpleHTTPServer now doesn't choke on query parameters
Georg Brandl45ab2332006-01-13 17:05:56 +0000600 any more.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000601
Georg Brandl4edd9892006-01-13 16:59:46 +0000602- Bug #1403410: The warnings module now doesn't get confused
603 when it can't find out the module name it generates a warning for.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000604
Martin v. Löwis412ed3b2006-01-08 10:45:39 +0000605- Patch #1177307: Added a new codec utf_8_sig for UTF-8 with a BOM signature.
606
Neal Norwitzab86f8e2005-12-23 21:44:36 +0000607- Patch #1157027: cookielib mishandles RFC 2109 cookies in Netscape mode
608
Neal Norwitz338e7862005-12-23 21:27:46 +0000609- Patch #1117398: cookielib.LWPCookieJar and .MozillaCookieJar now raise
610 LoadError as documented, instead of IOError. For compatibility,
611 LoadError subclasses IOError.
612
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +0000613- Added the hashlib module. It provides secure hash functions for MD5 and
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000614 SHA1, 224, 256, 384, and 512. Note that recent developments make the
615 historic MD5 and SHA1 unsuitable for cryptographic-strength applications.
616 In <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058850.html>
617 Ronald L. Rivest offered this advice for Python:
618
619 "The consensus of researchers in this area (at least as
620 expressed at the NIST Hash Function Workshop 10/31/05),
621 is that SHA-256 is a good choice for the time being, but
622 that research should continue, and other alternatives may
623 arise from this research. The larger SHA's also seem OK."
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +0000624
Fredrik Lundh7e0aef02005-12-12 18:54:55 +0000625- Added a subset of Fredrik Lundh's ElementTree package. Available
626 modules are xml.etree.ElementTree, xml.etree.ElementPath, and
627 xml.etree.ElementInclude, from ElementTree 1.2.6.
628
Martin v. Löwis307021f2005-11-27 16:59:04 +0000629- Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles.
630
Georg Brandl1f663572005-11-26 16:50:44 +0000631- Bug #1365984: urllib now opens "data:" URLs again.
632
Brett Cannonad07ff22005-11-23 02:15:50 +0000633- Patch #1314396: prevent deadlock for threading.Thread.join() when an exception
634 is raised within the method itself on a previous call (e.g., passing in an
635 illegal argument)
636
Brett Cannon5d0bf942005-11-02 23:04:26 +0000637- Bug #1340337: change time.strptime() to always return ValueError when there
638 is an error in the format string.
639
Georg Brandle8f24432005-10-03 14:16:44 +0000640- Patch #754022: Greatly enhanced webbrowser.py (by Oleg Broytmann).
641
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000642- Bug #729103: pydoc.py: Fix docother() method to accept additional
Georg Brandl8b813db2005-10-01 16:32:31 +0000643 "parent" argument.
644
Georg Brandlaa935172005-09-29 20:49:16 +0000645- Patch #1300515: xdrlib.py: Fix pack_fstring() to really use null bytes
646 for padding.
647
Georg Brandl80ba8e82005-09-29 20:16:07 +0000648- Bug #1296004: httplib.py: Limit maximal amount of data read from the
649 socket to avoid a MemoryError on Windows.
650
Matthias Klosef3f231f2005-09-20 07:02:49 +0000651- Patch #1166948: locale.py: Prefer LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG over LANGUAGE
652 to get the correct encoding.
653
654- Patch #1166938: locale.py: Parse LANGUAGE as a colon separated list of
655 languages.
656
Martin v. Löwis4ed67382005-09-18 08:34:39 +0000657- Patch #1268314: Cache lines in StreamReader.readlines for performance.
658
Brett Cannona783d062005-09-15 02:34:56 +0000659- Bug #1290505: Fix clearing the regex cache for time.strptime().
660
Martin v. Löwis5dbdc592005-08-27 10:07:56 +0000661- Bug #1167128: Fix size of a symlink in a tarfile to be 0.
662
Georg Brandl5a650a22005-08-26 08:51:34 +0000663- Patch #810023: Fix off-by-one bug in urllib.urlretrieve reporthook
664 functionality.
665
Martin v. Löwis8b595142005-08-25 11:03:38 +0000666- Bug #1163178: Make IDNA return an empty string when the input is empty.
667
Georg Brandl532efab2005-08-24 22:34:21 +0000668- Patch #848017: Make Cookie more RFC-compliant. Use CRLF as default output
669 separator and do not output trailing semicola.
670
Georg Brandlb9256022005-08-24 18:46:39 +0000671- Patch #1062060: urllib.urlretrieve() now raises a new exception, named
672 ContentTooShortException, when the actually downloaded size does not
673 match the Content-Length header.
674
Martin v. Löwis0a5d4a22005-08-24 14:55:22 +0000675- Bug #1121494: distutils.dir_utils.mkpath now accepts Unicode strings.
676
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +0000677- Bug #1178484: Return complete lines from codec stream readers
678 even if there is an exception in later lines, resulting in
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000679 correct line numbers for decoding errors in source code.
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +0000680
Georg Brandl6d2b3462005-08-24 07:36:17 +0000681- Bug #1192315: Disallow negative arguments to clear() in pdb.
682
Martin v. Löwisb813c532005-08-07 20:51:04 +0000683- Patch #827386: Support absolute source paths in msvccompiler.py.
684
Georg Brandl649f8e72005-08-03 07:30:12 +0000685- Patch #1105730: Apply the new implementation of commonprefix in posixpath
686 to ntpath, macpath, os2emxpath and riscospath.
687
Guido van Rossum755149f2005-07-27 00:00:44 +0000688- Fix a problem in Tkinter introduced by SF patch #869468: delete bogus
689 __hasattr__ and __delattr__ methods on class Tk that were breaking
690 Tkdnd.
691
Georg Brandl5dbda752005-07-17 20:27:41 +0000692- Bug #1015140: disambiguated the term "article id" in nntplib docs and
693 docstrings to either "article number" or "message id".
694
Georg Brandla4a8b822005-07-15 09:13:21 +0000695- Bug #1238170: threading.Thread.__init__ no longer has "kwargs={}" as a
696 parameter, but uses the usual "kwargs=None".
697
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000698- textwrap now processes text chunks at O(n) speed instead of O(n**2).
Raymond Hettinger8bfa8932005-07-15 06:53:35 +0000699 Patch #1209527 (Contributed by Connelly).
700
Georg Brandl5c5fe2f2005-07-14 06:40:47 +0000701- urllib2 has now an attribute 'httpresponses' mapping from HTTP status code
702 to W3C name (404 -> 'Not Found'). RFE #1216944.
703
Georg Brandl9e43acf2005-07-04 17:16:07 +0000704- Bug #1177468: Don't cache the /dev/urandom file descriptor for os.urandom,
705 as this can cause problems with apps closing all file descriptors.
706
Georg Brandl5284b532005-06-26 22:54:58 +0000707- Bug #839151: Fix an attempt to access sys.argv in the warnings module
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000708 it can be missing in embedded interpreters
Georg Brandl5284b532005-06-26 22:54:58 +0000709
Georg Brandl2f210b62005-06-26 22:09:06 +0000710- Bug #1155638: Fix a bug which affected HTTP 0.9 responses in httplib.
711
Georg Brandlfbff1bc2005-06-26 21:36:25 +0000712- Bug #1100201: Cross-site scripting was possible on BaseHTTPServer via
713 error messages.
714
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +0000715- Bug #1108948: Cookie.py produced invalid JavaScript code.
716
Raymond Hettingerda99d1c2005-06-21 07:43:58 +0000717- The tokenize module now detects and reports indentation errors.
718 Bug #1224621.
719
Raymond Hettinger68c04532005-06-10 11:05:19 +0000720- The tokenize module has a new untokenize() function to support a full
721 roundtrip from lexed tokens back to Python sourcecode. In addition,
722 the generate_tokens() function now accepts a callable argument that
723 terminates by raising StopIteration.
724
Georg Brandl9166e1a2005-06-04 09:20:03 +0000725- Bug #1196315: fix weakref.WeakValueDictionary constructor.
726
Georg Brandl268e61c2005-06-03 14:28:50 +0000727- Bug #1213894: os.path.realpath didn't resolve symlinks that were the first
728 component of the path.
729
Skip Montanaro174dd222005-05-14 20:54:16 +0000730- Patch #1120353: The xmlrpclib module provides better, more transparent,
731 support for datetime.{datetime,date,time} objects. With use_datetime set
732 to True, applications shouldn't have to fiddle with the DateTime wrapper
733 class at all.
734
Martin v. Löwis55f1bb82005-03-21 20:56:35 +0000735- distutils.commands.upload was added to support uploading distribution
736 files to PyPI.
737
Walter Dörwalda6e8a4a2005-03-31 13:57:38 +0000738- distutils.commands.register now encodes the data as UTF-8 before posting
739 them to PyPI.
740
Raymond Hettinger267b8682005-03-27 10:47:39 +0000741- decimal operator and comparison methods now return NotImplemented
742 instead of raising a TypeError when interacting with other types. This
743 allows other classes to implement __radd__ style methods and have them
744 work as expected.
745
Raymond Hettingerbea3f6f2005-03-15 04:59:17 +0000746- Bug #1163325: Decimal infinities failed to hash. Attempting to
747 hash a NaN raised an InvalidOperation instead of a TypeError.
748
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000749- Patch #918101: Add tarfile open mode r|* for auto-detection of the
Martin v. Löwis78be7df2005-03-05 12:47:42 +0000750 stream compression; add, for symmetry reasons, r:* as a synonym of r.
751
Martin v. Löwis00a73e72005-03-04 19:40:34 +0000752- Patch #1043890: Add extractall method to tarfile.
753
Martin v. Löwisc72dd382005-03-04 13:50:17 +0000754- Patch #1075887: Don't require MSVC in distutils if there is nothing
755 to build.
756
Martin v. Löwis637431b2005-03-03 23:12:42 +0000757- Patch #1103407: Properly deal with tarfile iterators when untarring
758 symbolic links on Windows.
759
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000760- Patch #645894: Use getrusage for computing the time consumption in
Martin v. Löwisa4dac402005-03-03 11:39:45 +0000761 profile.py if available.
762
Martin v. Löwisdf37c8c2005-03-03 11:08:03 +0000763- Patch #1046831: Use get_python_version where appropriate in sysconfig.py.
764
Martin v. Löwisc5574e82005-03-03 10:57:37 +0000765- Patch #1117454: Remove code to special-case cookies without values
766 in LWPCookieJar.
767
Martin v. Löwis4ea3ead2005-03-03 10:48:12 +0000768- Patch #1117339: Add cookielib special name tests.
769
Martin v. Löwise869eb12005-03-03 09:46:07 +0000770- Patch #1112812: Make bsddb/__init__.py more friendly for modulefinder.
771
Martin v. Löwisf2a8d632005-03-03 08:35:22 +0000772- Patch #1110248: SYNC_FLUSH the zlib buffer for GZipFile.flush.
773
Martin v. Löwisdf241532005-03-03 08:17:42 +0000774- Patch #1107973: Allow to iterate over the lines of a tarfile.ExFileObject.
775
Martin v. Löwis8ed338a2005-03-03 08:12:27 +0000776- Patch #1104111: Alter setup.py --help and --help-commands.
777
Martin v. Löwis4afe1542005-03-01 08:09:28 +0000778- Patch #1121234: Properly cleanup _exit and tkerror commands.
779
Martin v. Löwisc2a0ac22005-02-24 20:22:10 +0000780- Patch #1049151: xdrlib now unpacks booleans as True or False.
781
Raymond Hettingerbab41432005-02-05 01:31:19 +0000782- Fixed bug in a NameError bug in cookielib. Patch #1116583.
783
Guido van Rossumd0641422005-02-03 15:01:24 +0000784- Applied a security fix to SimpleXMLRPCserver (PSF-2005-001). This
785 disables recursive traversal through instance attributes, which can
786 be exploited in various ways.
787
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000788- Bug #1222790: in SimpleXMLRPCServer, set the reuse-address and close-on-exec
Andrew M. Kuchling3a976052005-12-04 15:07:41 +0000789 flags on the HTTP listening socket.
790
Andrew M. Kuchlinge63fde72005-12-04 15:36:57 +0000791- Bug #792570: SimpleXMLRPCServer had problems if the request grew too large.
792 Fixed by reading the HTTP body in chunks instead of one big socket.read().
793
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000794- Patches #893642, #1039083: add allow_none, encoding arguments to constructors of
Andrew M. Kuchling10a16de2005-12-04 16:34:40 +0000795 SimpleXMLRPCServer and CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler.
796
Martin v. Löwis1d11de62005-01-29 13:29:23 +0000797- Bug #1110478: Revert os.environ.update to do putenv again.
798
Thomas Hellerd6c6e222005-01-20 19:20:16 +0000799- Bug #1103844: fix distutils.install.dump_dirs() with negated options.
800
Martin v. Löwis22b457e2005-01-16 08:40:58 +0000801- os.{SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END} have been added for convenience.
802
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000803- Enhancements to the csv module:
804
805 + Dialects are now validated by the underlying C code, better
Georg Brandl7eb4b7d2005-07-22 21:49:32 +0000806 reflecting its capabilities, and improving its compliance with
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000807 PEP 305.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000808 + Dialect parameter parsing has been re-implemented to improve error
809 reporting.
810 + quotechar=None and quoting=QUOTE_NONE now work the way PEP 305
811 dictates.
812 + the parser now removes the escapechar prefix from escaped characters.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +0000813 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the writer now tests for numeric
Andrew McNamaraf69d94f2005-01-13 11:30:54 +0000814 types, rather than any object than can be represented as a numeric.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +0000815 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the reader now casts unquoted fields
816 to floats.
Andrew McNamaraf69d94f2005-01-13 11:30:54 +0000817 + reader now allows \r characters to be quoted (previously it only allowed
818 \n to be quoted).
Andrew McNamarac89f2842005-01-12 07:44:42 +0000819 + writer doublequote handling improved.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000820 + Dialect classes passed to the module are no longer instantiated by
821 the module before being parsed (the former validation scheme required
822 this, but the mechanism was unreliable).
823 + The dialect registry now contains instances of the internal
824 C-coded dialect type, rather than references to python objects.
825 + the internal c-coded dialect type is now immutable.
826 + register_dialect now accepts the same keyword dialect specifications
827 as the reader and writer, allowing the user to register dialects
828 without first creating a dialect class.
829 + a configurable limit to the size of parsed fields has been added -
830 previously, an unmatched quote character could result in the entire
831 file being read into the field buffer before an error was reported.
Andrew McNamara31d88962005-01-12 03:45:10 +0000832 + A new module method csv.field_size_limit() has been added that sets
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000833 the parser field size limit (returning the former limit). The initial
834 limit is 128kB.
Andrew McNamara7f2053e2005-01-12 11:17:16 +0000835 + A line_num attribute has been added to the reader object, which tracks
836 the number of lines read from the source iterator. This is not
837 the same as the number of records returned, as records can span
838 multiple lines.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000839 + reader and writer objects were not being registered with the cyclic-GC.
840 This has been fixed.
841
Brett Cannone6539c42005-01-08 02:43:53 +0000842- _DummyThread objects in the threading module now delete self.__block that is
843 inherited from _Thread since it uses up a lock allocated by 'thread'. The
844 lock primitives tend to be limited in number and thus should not be wasted on
845 a _DummyThread object. Fixes bug #1089632.
846
Raymond Hettinger97db05d2005-01-07 08:15:41 +0000847- The imghdr module now detects Exif files.
848
Raymond Hettinger6065d322004-12-20 23:51:53 +0000849- StringIO.truncate() now correctly adjusts the size attribute.
850 (Bug #951915).
851
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +0000852- locale.py now uses an updated locale alias table (built using
853 Tools/i18n/makelocalealias.py, a tool to parse the X11 locale
854 alias file); the encoding lookup was enhanced to use Python's
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000855 encoding alias table.
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +0000856
Raymond Hettinger3557f422004-12-07 12:02:02 +0000857- moved deprecated modules to Lib/lib-old: whrandom, tzparse, statcache.
858
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +0000859- the pickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
860 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
861
Brett Cannon84667c02004-12-07 03:25:18 +0000862- optparse now optionally imports gettext. This allows its use in setup.py.
863
Raymond Hettinger3489cad2004-12-05 05:20:42 +0000864- the pickle module no longer uses the deprecated bin parameter.
865
Raymond Hettinger1bc82f82004-12-05 03:58:17 +0000866- the shelve module no longer uses the deprecated binary parameter.
867
Raymond Hettinger6c92d762004-12-05 03:28:00 +0000868- the pstats module no longer uses the deprecated ignore() method.
869
Raymond Hettingerf3fa9462004-12-05 01:58:09 +0000870- the filecmp module no longer uses the deprecated use_statcache argument.
871
Raymond Hettinger664347b2004-12-04 21:21:53 +0000872- unittest.TestCase.run() and unittest.TestSuite.run() can now be successfully
873 extended or overridden by subclasses. Formerly, the subclassed method would
874 be ignored by the rest of the module. (Bug #1078905).
875
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000876- heapq.nsmallest() and heapq.nlargest() now support key= arguments with
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +0000877 the same meaning as in list.sort().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000878
Walter Dörwald36733692004-12-22 12:50:50 +0000879- Bug #1076985: ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` now calls ``read()`` only
880 once when a size argument is given. This prevents a buffer overflow in the
881 tokenizer with very long source lines.
882
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +0000883- Bug #1083110: ``zlib.decompress.flush()`` would segfault if called
884 immediately after creating the object, without any intervening
885 ``.decompress()`` calls.
Andrew M. Kuchling3b585b32004-12-28 20:10:48 +0000886
Skip Montanaro05885812005-01-16 20:48:27 +0000887- The reconvert.quote function can now emit triple-quoted strings. The
888 reconvert module now has some simple documentation.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000889
Walter Dörwaldaf3b39a2005-02-18 13:22:43 +0000890- ``UserString.MutableString`` now supports negative indices in
891 ``__setitem__`` and ``__delitem__``
892
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +0000893- Bug #1149508: ``textwrap`` now handles hyphenated numbers (eg. "2004-03-05")
894 correctly.
895
Walter Dörwaldbc8e6422005-04-21 21:32:03 +0000896- Partial fixes for SF bugs #1163244 and #1175396: If a chunk read by
897 ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` has a trailing "\r", read one more
898 character even if the user has passed a size parameter to get a proper
899 line ending. Remove the special handling of a "\r\n" that has been split
900 between two lines.
901
Walter Dörwalda47d1c02005-08-30 10:23:14 +0000902- Bug #1251300: On UCS-4 builds the "unicode-internal" codec will now complain
903 about illegal code points. The codec now supports PEP 293 style error
904 handlers.
905
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +0000906- Bug #1235646: ``codecs.StreamRecoder.next()`` now reencodes the data it reads
Walter Dörwaldc5238b82005-09-01 11:56:53 +0000907 from the input stream, so that the output is a byte string in the correct
908 encoding instead of a unicode string.
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +0000909
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +0000910- Bug #1202493: Fixing SRE parser to handle '{}' as perl does, rather than
911 considering it exactly like a '*'.
912
Walter Dörwald007f8df2005-10-09 19:42:27 +0000913- Bug #1245379: Add "unicode-1-1-utf-7" as an alias for "utf-7" to
914 ``encodings.aliases``.
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +0000915
Walter Dörwald09f0dd52005-11-21 19:10:07 +0000916- ` uu.encode()`` and ``uu.decode()`` now support unicode filenames.
917
Gustavo Niemeyer548148812006-01-31 18:34:13 +0000918- Patch #1413711: Certain patterns of differences were making difflib
919 touch the recursion limit.
920
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +0000921- Bug #947906: An object oriented interface has been added to the calendar
922 module. It's possible to generate HTML calendar now and the module can be
Walter Dörwald48d5e502006-04-01 07:57:00 +0000923 called as a script (e.g. via ``python -mcalendar``). Localized month and
924 weekday names can be ouput (even if an exotic encoding is used) using
925 special classes that use unicode.
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +0000926
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000927Build
928-----
929
Neal Norwitz602d3392006-03-31 08:21:40 +0000930- Fix test_float, test_long, and test_struct failures on Tru64 with gcc
931 by using -mieee gcc option.
932
Martin v. Löwis86d66262006-02-17 08:40:11 +0000933- Patch #1432345: Make python compile on DragonFly.
934
Martin v. Löwis856bf9a2006-02-14 20:42:55 +0000935- Build support for Win64-AMD64 was added.
936
Martin v. Löwisa55e55e2006-02-11 15:55:14 +0000937- Patch #1428494: Prefer linking against ncursesw over ncurses library.
938
Martin v. Löwisfd9a72a2006-01-08 10:07:33 +0000939- Patch #881820: look for openpty and forkpty also in libbsd.
940
Martin v. Löwis64c33dd2006-01-03 07:42:14 +0000941- The sources of zlib are now part of the Python distribution (zlib 1.2.3).
942 The zlib module is now builtin on Windows.
943
Martin v. Löwisd5845ec2005-12-30 12:31:38 +0000944- Use -xcode=pic32 for CCSHARED on Solaris with SunPro.
945
Martin v. Löwis147fbe52005-08-07 21:09:30 +0000946- Bug #1189330: configure did not correctly determine the necessary
947 value of LINKCC if python was built with GCC 4.0.
948
Trent Mick8321b422005-07-26 02:29:21 +0000949- Upgrade Windows build to zlib 1.2.3 which eliminates a potential security
950 vulnerability in zlib 1.2.1 and 1.2.2.
951
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +0000952- EXTRA_CFLAGS has been introduced as an environment variable to hold compiler
953 flags that change binary compatibility. Changes were also made to
954 distutils.sysconfig to also use the environment variable when used during
Martin v. Löwisd7c795e2005-04-25 07:14:03 +0000955 compilation of the interpreter and of C extensions through distutils.
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +0000956
Bob Ippolitoed233462005-03-29 13:47:59 +0000957- SF patch 1171735: Darwin 8's headers are anal about POSIX compliance,
958 and linking has changed (prebinding is now deprecated, and libcc_dynamic
959 no longer exists). This configure patch makes things right.
960
Martin v. Löwise2713be2005-03-08 15:03:08 +0000961- Bug #1158607: Build with --disable-unicode again.
962
Brett Cannon46d96232005-02-16 00:07:19 +0000963- spwdmodule.c is built only if either HAVE_GETSPNAM or HAVE_HAVE_GETSPENT is
964 defined. Discovered as a result of not being able to build on OS X.
965
Brett Cannon516592f2004-12-07 00:42:59 +0000966- setup.py now uses the directories specified in LDFLAGS using the -L option
967 and in CPPFLAGS using the -I option for adding library and include
968 directories, respectively, for compiling extension modules against. This has
969 led to the core being compiled using the values in CPPFLAGS. It also removes
970 the need for the special-casing of both DarwinPorts and Fink for darwin since
971 the proper directories can be specified in LDFLAGS (``-L/sw/lib`` for Fink,
972 ``-L/opt/local/lib`` for DarwinPorts) and CPPFLAGS (``-I/sw/include`` for
973 Fink, ``-I/opt/local/include`` for DarwinPorts).
974
Brett Cannon43802422005-02-10 20:48:03 +0000975- Test in configure.in that checks for tzset no longer dependent on tm->tm_zone
976 to exist in the struct (not required by either ISO C nor the UNIX 2 spec).
977 Tests for sanity in tzname when HAVE_TZNAME defined were also defined.
978 Closes bug #1096244. Thanks Gregory Bond.
979
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000980C API
981-----
982
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +0000983- ``PyMem_{Del, DEL}`` and ``PyMem_{Free, FREE}`` no longer map to
984 ``PyObject_{Free, FREE}``. They map to the system ``free()`` now. If memory
985 is obtained via the ``PyObject_`` family, it must be released via the
986 ``PyObject_`` family, and likewise for the ``PyMem_`` family. This has
987 always been officially true, but when Python's small-object allocator was
988 introduced, an attempt was made to cater to a few extension modules
989 discovered at the time that obtained memory via ``PyObject_New`` but
990 released it via ``PyMem_DEL``. It's years later, and if such code still
991 exists it will fail now (probably with segfaults, but calling wrong
992 low-level memory management functions can yield many symptoms).
993
Raymond Hettingerbeb31012005-08-16 03:47:52 +0000994- Added a C API for set and frozenset objects.
995
Raymond Hettinger66517482004-12-03 11:45:13 +0000996- Removed PyRange_New().
997
Walter Dörwaldd1c1e102005-10-06 20:29:57 +0000998- Patch #1313939: PyUnicode_DecodeCharmap() accepts a unicode string as the
999 mapping argument now. This string is used as a mapping table. Byte values
1000 greater than the length of the string and 0xFFFE are treated as undefined
1001 mappings.
1002
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001003
1004Tests
1005-----
1006
Martin v. Löwis4d394df2005-01-23 09:19:22 +00001007- In test_os, st_?time is now truncated before comparing it with ST_?TIME.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001008
Hye-Shik Changaaa2f1d2005-12-10 17:44:27 +00001009- Patch #1276356: New resource "urlfetch" is implemented. This enables
1010 even impatient people to run tests that require remote files.
1011
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00001012
1013Documentation
1014-------------
1015
Georg Brandl8cb30772006-01-20 09:34:29 +00001016- Bug #1402224: Add warning to dl docs about crashes.
1017
Georg Brandla3a93ae2006-01-20 09:14:36 +00001018- Bug #1396471: Document that Windows' ftell() can return invalid
1019 values for text files with UNIX-style line endings.
1020
Georg Brandl32252422005-09-14 20:42:00 +00001021- Bug #1274828: Document os.path.splitunc().
1022
Georg Brandl79c122f2005-08-24 07:31:33 +00001023- Bug #1190204: Clarify which directories are searched by site.py.
1024
Georg Brandl6f2bbd32005-08-24 07:26:55 +00001025- Bug #1193849: Clarify os.path.expanduser() documentation.
1026
Georg Brandlf13c4ba2005-08-02 10:28:08 +00001027- Bug #1243192: re.UNICODE and re.LOCALE affect \d, \D, \s and \S.
1028
Georg Brandl150db732005-07-18 08:53:17 +00001029- Bug #755617: Document the effects of os.chown() on Windows.
1030
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001031- Patch #1180012: The documentation for modulefinder is now in the library reference.
1032
1033- Patch #1213031: Document that os.chown() accepts argument values of -1.
1034
1035- Bug #1190563: Document os.waitpid() return value with WNOHANG flag.
1036
1037- Bug #1175022: Correct the example code for property().
1038
Georg Brandl40c71652005-06-25 21:08:46 +00001039- Document the IterableUserDict class in the UserDict module.
1040 Closes bug #1166582.
1041
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00001042- Remove all latent references for "Macintosh" that referred to semantics for
1043 Mac OS 9 and change to reflect the state for OS X.
1044 Closes patch #1095802. Thanks Jack Jansen.
1045
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001046Mac
1047---
1048
1049
Hye-Shik Chang4e422812005-07-17 02:36:59 +00001050New platforms
1051-------------
1052
1053- FreeBSD 7 support is added.
1054
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001055
1056Tools/Demos
1057-----------
1058
Brett Cannonacde7342006-03-01 04:28:00 +00001059- Created Misc/Vim/vim_syntax.py to auto-generate a python.vim file in that
1060 directory for syntax highlighting in Vim. Vim directory was added and placed
1061 vimrc to it (was previous up a level).
1062
Georg Brandl56897312005-08-24 18:32:30 +00001063- Added two new files to Tools/scripts: pysource.py, which recursively
1064 finds Python source files, and findnocoding.py, which finds Python
1065 source files that need an encoding declaration.
1066 Patch #784089, credits to Oleg Broytmann.
1067
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001068- Bug #1072853: pindent.py used an uninitialized variable.
1069
Martin v. Löwisab9ec162005-04-09 10:53:34 +00001070- Patch #1177597: Correct Complex.__init__.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001071
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +00001072- Fixed a display glitch in Pynche, which could cause the right arrow to
1073 wiggle over by a pixel.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001074
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00001075----
1076
1077**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**