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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00007What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
8================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00009
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +000010*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +000011
12Core and Builtins
13-----------------
14
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +000015- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for Objects/ and Python/ .
16
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +000017- Issue #1533: fix inconsistency in range function argument
18 processing: any non-float non-integer argument is now converted to
19 an integer (if possible) using its __int__ method. Previously, only
20 small arguments were treated this way; larger arguments (those whose
21 __int__ was outside the range of a C long) would produce a TypeError.
22
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +000023- Issue #8202: sys.argv[0] is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when
24 searching for the module file to be executed with the -m command
25 line option
26
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +000027- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
28
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +000029- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
30 PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable
31 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
32 Charles-François Natali.
33
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +000034- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
35 passed to bytearray.
36
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +000037- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X
38
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +000039- Issue #8404: Fixed set operations on dictionary views.
40
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +000041- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework
42 builds on MacOS X. That is, "python setup.py install --user" will install
43 into "~/Library/Python/2.7" instead of "~/.local".
44
45
46
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +000047Library
48-------
49
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +000050- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a
51 chunk larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor
52 objects.
53
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +000054- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
55
56- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing
57 error messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
58 inheritance with the underlying socket object.
59 The cheap inheritance has been deprecated.
60
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +000061- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
62 Patch by Tres Seaver.
63
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +000064- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
65
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +000066- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the
67 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
68
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +000069- Issue #8313: traceback.format_exception_only() encodes unicode message to
70 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if str(value) failed
71
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +000072- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a
73 Decimal operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those
74 signals is trapped, the specification determines the order in which
75 the signals should be handled. In many cases this order wasn't
76 being followed, leading to the wrong Python exception being raised.
77
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +000078- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
79 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling
80 close() several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
81
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +000082- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
83
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +000084- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
85 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
86
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +000087- Issue #7192: webbrowser.get("firefox") now wors on Mac OS X, as does
88 webbrowser.get("safari").
89
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +000090- Issue #8577: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc() now makes a difference
91 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
92 "Include".
93
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +000094- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set
95 when mode="w|" is used.
96
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +000097- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions
98 of the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
99
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +0000100- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
101 It should correctly return an empty response now.
102
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +0000103- Issue #7490: to facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
104 suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
Nick Coghlan54677da2010-04-28 14:34:30 +0000105 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart
106 Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +0000107
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +0000108- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline
109 before the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
110
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +0000111- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
112
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +0000113- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
114 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
115
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +0000116- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
117 and mappings.
118
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +0000119- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown,
120 where the method could block indefinitely if called just before the
121 event loop started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes
122 witnessed in test_httpservers.
123
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +0000124- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
125 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
126
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +0000127- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of
128 the SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
129
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +0000130- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
131
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +0000132- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the
133 underlying socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
134
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +0000135- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL
136 socket. Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
137
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +0000138- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of
139 the string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional
140 and keywords.
141
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000142- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has
143 a non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
144 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
145 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
146
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +0000147- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing
148 the _ssl extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates
149 doesn't fail because of an "unknown algorithm".
150
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +0000151- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
152
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +0000153- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
154 from PORT/EPRT commands.
155
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +0000156- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
157
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +0000158- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding
159 error handler from the new IO library.
160
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +0000161- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response
162 code as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
163
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +0000164- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
165
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +0000166- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
167 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
168
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +0000169- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
170 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
171
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +0000172- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
173 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally
174 designed to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
175
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +0000176- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
177 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of
178 7bit rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
179
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +0000180- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
181
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +0000182- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module
183 to cover recent locale changes and additions.
184
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +0000185Extension Modules
186-----------------
187
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +0000188- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
189
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +0000190- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
191
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +0000192- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after
193 calling a foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified
194 libffi library.
195
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000196Tests
197-----
198
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +0000199- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
200 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
201
Victor Stinner6a102812010-04-27 23:55:59 +0000202- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
203 support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +0000204
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000205- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling
206 of SSL shutdowns.
207
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +0000208Build
209-----
210
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +0000211- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in --with-pydebug builds with gcc.
212 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
213 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
214 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
215
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +0000216- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
217
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +0000218- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into
219 your home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
220
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +0000221- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf2.65.
222
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +0000223Misc
224----
225
226- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
227
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000228
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000229What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
230================================
231
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +0000232*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000233
234Core and Builtins
235-----------------
236
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +0000237- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
238
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +0000239- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
240 changed.
241
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +0000242- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
243 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
244 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
245
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +0000246- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
247
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +0000248- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
249
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +0000250- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
251
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +0000252- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__
253 is called with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to
254 future-proof user code. If a derived class does not currently
255 implement __format__ but later adds its own __format__, it would
256 most likely break user code that had supplied a format string. This
257 will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in Python 3.3 and it will be
258 an error in Python 3.4.
259
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +0000260- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
261 references.
262
Marc-André Lemburg9b90f7a2010-05-05 13:30:01 +0000263- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in
264 case it is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +0000265
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +0000266- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +0000267
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +0000268- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
269 arguments to a function correct.
270
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +0000271- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
272
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +0000273- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000274 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
275 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +0000276 module.
277
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +0000278- Code objects now support weak references.
279
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000280Library
281-------
282
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +0000283- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
284
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +0000285- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
286 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO`
287 and `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
288
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +0000289- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
290
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +0000291- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance
292 directly, converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
293
294 >>> Decimal(1.1)
295 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
296
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +0000297- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
298
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +0000299- the functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator
Georg Brandl4fabac52010-04-14 08:53:38 +0000300 to simplify the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +0000301
Raymond Hettingerbb006cf2010-04-04 21:45:01 +0000302- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +0000303 old-style comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
304
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +0000305- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float
306 instances directly.
307
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +0000308- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now
309 signal InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons
Mark Dickinsonf3eeca12010-04-02 10:35:12 +0000310 involving a quiet NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs
311 are now hashable; Decimal signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +0000312
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +0000313- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal
314 instances now return a result based on the numeric values of the
315 operands; previously they returned an arbitrary result based on
316 the relative ordering of id(float) and id(Decimal).
317
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +0000318- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
319 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line
320 is read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original
321 patch by Piotr Ożarowski).
322
323- Issue #3135: Add inspect.getcallargs, which binds arguments to a function
324 like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +0000325
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +0000326- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
327 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
328 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643.
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +0000329 http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
330
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +0000331- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and
332 a Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning
333 True/False. This makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with
334 int <=> complex, float <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
335
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +0000336- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
337
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +0000338- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
339
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +0000340- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
341 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
342
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +0000343- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
344
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +0000345- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
346 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is
347 now silenced.
348
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +0000349- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
350 deprecated.
351
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +0000352- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type
353 when Python is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
354
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +0000355- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor
356 method to LoggerAdapter.
357
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +0000358- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode
359 logger names existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error
360 when configuration code attempted to sort the existing loggers.
361
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +0000362- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not
363 fully loaded when logging occurs.
364
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +0000365- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
366 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
367 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +0000368
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +0000369- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
370
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +0000371- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
372
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +0000373- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support
374 writing into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays
375 or memoryviews.
376
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +0000377- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
378 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
379
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +0000380- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
381
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +0000382- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
383 the locale.
384
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000385- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +0000386 set to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000387 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +0000388
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +0000389- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000390 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an
391 existing log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does
392 not exist, the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +0000393
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000394- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +0000395 cElementTree module is updated too.
396
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +0000397- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
398
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000399- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +0000400 classes.
401
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000402- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
403 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
404 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
405 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +0000406
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +0000407- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
408 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
409
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +0000410- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
411
412- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
413 during test runs.
414
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +0000415- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
416 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
417
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +0000418Extension Modules
419-----------------
420
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +0000421- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
422
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +0000423- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
424
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +0000425- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
426 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4.
427 This update drops support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +0000428
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +0000429- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
430
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +0000431- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
432
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +0000433- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
434 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
435 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
436 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
437
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000438- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
439 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
440 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
441 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour
442 was inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others,
443 and the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native
444 packing and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +0000445
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +0000446- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a
447 bug in the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
448
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +0000449Tools/Demos
450-----------
451
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000452- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
453 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
454 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000455
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +0000456- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
457
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +0000458Build
459-----
460
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +0000461- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build,
462 allowing to use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
463
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +0000464- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment
465 variable anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker
466 when building a shared library.
467
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +0000468- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
469
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +0000470- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
471
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +0000472- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
473 assembly file.
474
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +0000475C-API
476-----
477
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +0000478- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
479 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons,
480 is now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
481
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +0000482- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported
Larry Hastings5ac006d2010-04-02 11:01:35 +0000483 from Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution
484 have been converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility
485 concerns, PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +0000486
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +0000487Tests
488-----
489
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +0000490- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail
491 if any thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
492
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +0000493- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
494
495- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
496
497- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
498
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +0000499- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
500
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +0000501- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
502
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +0000503- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
504 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
505
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +0000506- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
507 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +0000508
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +0000509- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated
510 files from the local cache.
511
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +0000512
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000513What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
514=================================
515
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +0000516*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000517
518Core and Builtins
519-----------------
520
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000521- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
522 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +0000523
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000524- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
525 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +0000526
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +0000527- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000528 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +0000529
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +0000530- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000531 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
532 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +0000533
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000534- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
535 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +0000536
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000537- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +0000538 Parser/myreadline.c.
539
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +0000540- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000541 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +0000542
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000543- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
544 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +0000545
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000546Library
547-------
548
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +0000549- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
550
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000551- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +0000552 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +0000553
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000554- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +0000555 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
556
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000557- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
558 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +0000559
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +0000560- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000561 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +0000562
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +0000563- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +0000564
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000565- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
566 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +0000567
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000568- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +0000569
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000570- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
571 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +0000572
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000573- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
574 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +0000575
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +0000576- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
577
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000578- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
579 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
580 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
581 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +0000582
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000583- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
584 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000585
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +0000586- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
587 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
588 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000589
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +0000590- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +0000591 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +0000592
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000593- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +0000594
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000595- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +0000596
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000597- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +0000598
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000599- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
600 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +0000601
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +0000602- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000603 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +0000604
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000605- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +0000606
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +0000607- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
608
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +0000609Extension Modules
610-----------------
611
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000612- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +0000613 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
614
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +0000615- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
616
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000617- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +0000618 handling.
619
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +0000620- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
621 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000622
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000623- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +0000624 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
625 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
626
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000627- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
628 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +0000629
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000630Tests
631-----
632
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000633- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
634 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
635 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +0000636
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +0000637- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
638 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
639
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000640- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
641 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +0000642
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000643- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +0000644 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +0000645
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000646- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +0000647 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
648
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000649- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
650 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
651 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
652 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000653
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +0000654Build
655-----
656
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +0000657- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +0000658
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000659
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000660What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
661=================================
662
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +0000663*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000664
665Core and Builtins
666-----------------
667
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +0000668- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
669 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000670 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
671 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +0000672
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +0000673- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000674 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +0000675
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000676- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
677 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +0000678
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000679- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +0000680
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000681- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
682 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +0000683
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000684- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
685 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
686 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
687 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +0000688
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000689- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
690 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
691 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
692 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +0000693
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +0000694- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
695 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
696 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
697
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000698- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
699 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +0000700
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000701 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
702 strings,
703 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
704 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
705 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
706 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
707
708- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
709 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +0000710
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +0000711- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
712
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +0000713- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
714
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +0000715- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
716
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000717Library
718-------
719
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +0000720- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
721 interpreter shutdown.
722
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000723- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
724 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
725 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
726 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +0000727
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000728- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +0000729
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000730- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +0000731
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000732- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +0000733
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +0000734- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000735 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +0000736 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
737 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
738
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +0000739- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
740
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +0000741- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000742 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
743 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +0000744 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
745
Benjamin Petersone06f7112010-01-28 02:15:02 +0000746- UserDict is now a new-style class.
747
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000748- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
749 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
750 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
751 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
752 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
753 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +0000754
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +0000755- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
756
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000757- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
758 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +0000759
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000760- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
761 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +0000762
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000763- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
764 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
765 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
766 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +0000767
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000768- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +0000769 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
770 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
771
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000772- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +0000773 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
774
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000775- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
776 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +0000777
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000778- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
779 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +0000780
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000781- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
782 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +0000783
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000784- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
785 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +0000786
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +0000787- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000788 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
789 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +0000790
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +0000791Extension Modules
792-----------------
793
794- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
795 (CVE_2009_3560).
796
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +0000797Build
798-----
799
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000800- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
801 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
802 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +0000803
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +0000804- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
805
806- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
807 MacOSX.
808
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +0000809- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
810 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
811
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +0000812Tools/Demos
813-----------
814
815- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000816 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +0000817 sandbox.
818
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +0000819Tests
820-----
821
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000822- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +0000823 instead of a hard coded port.
824
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +0000825Documentation
826-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +0000827
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000828- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
829 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +0000830
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000831- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +0000832 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
833
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000834
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +0000835What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
836=================================
837
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +0000838*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +0000839
840Core and Builtins
841-----------------
842
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000843- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
844 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +0000845
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +0000846- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
847 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
848
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +0000849- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000850 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
851 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
852 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
853 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
854 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +0000855
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +0000856- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
857 AttributeError.
858
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000859- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
860 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +0000861
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000862- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +0000863
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +0000864- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
865 used to drop the time part of the result.
866
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000867- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
868 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
869 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
870 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +0000871
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000872- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
873 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
874 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +0000875
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000876- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +0000877 executables on OSX.
878
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000879 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
880 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
881 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +0000882
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000883- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
884 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +0000885
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +0000886- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
887
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000888- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
889 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +0000890
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +0000891
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +0000892Library
893-------
894
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000895- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
896 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
897 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +0000898
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000899- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
900 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
901 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +0000902
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +0000903- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000904 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
905 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +0000906 Xicluna.
907
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000908- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
909 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +0000910
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000911- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
912 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +0000913
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000914- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
915 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
916 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +0000917
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000918- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +0000919 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
920
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000921- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
922 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +0000923
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000924- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +0000925 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
926
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000927- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
928 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +0000929
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000930- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
931 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +0000932
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000933- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
934 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
935 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +0000936
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000937- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
938 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +0000939
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +0000940- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
941 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
942 the same as passing no argument.
943
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000944- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
945 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +0000946
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000947- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +0000948
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000949- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +0000950
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000951- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
952 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +0000953
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000954- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
955 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +0000956
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000957- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
958 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +0000959
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +0000960C-API
961-----
962
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000963- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
964 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +0000965
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000966- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
967 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
968 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
969 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
970 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
971 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
972 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +0000973
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000974- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +0000975
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +0000976Build
977-----
978
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +0000979- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
980
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +0000981- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000982 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +0000983
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000984- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
985 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
986 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +0000987
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +0000988- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
989 found.
990
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +0000991- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +0000992
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000993- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
994 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +0000995
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +0000996Tests
997-----
998
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000999- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00001000 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
1001
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001002- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00001003
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00001004- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
1005 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
1006
1007
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001008What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
1009================================
1010
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00001011*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001012
1013Core and Builtins
1014-----------------
1015
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001016- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
1017 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00001018
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001019- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
1020 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
1021 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00001022
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001023- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
1024 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00001025
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001026- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
1027 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
1028 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00001029
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001030- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00001031
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001032- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00001033
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001034- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
1035 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00001036
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001037- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
1038 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
1039 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
1040 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
1041 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
1042 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00001043
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001044- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
1045 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
1046 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
1047 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
1048 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
1049 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
1050 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00001051
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001052 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
1053 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
1054 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
1055 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
1056 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
1057 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
1058 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
1059 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
1060 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
1061 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00001062
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001063- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
1064 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
1065 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
1066 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
1067 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
1068 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
1069 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
1070 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00001071
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00001072- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
1073
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001074- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
1075 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00001076
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001077- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
1078 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00001079
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001080- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
1081 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00001082
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00001083- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
1084
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001085- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
1086 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
1087 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00001088
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001089- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
1090 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00001091
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001092- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
1093 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001094
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001095- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
1096 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00001097
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001098- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
1099 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
1100 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00001101
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001102- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
1103 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00001104
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00001105- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
1106 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
1107 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
1108 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
1109
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00001110- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
1111 assignment.
1112
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001113- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
1114 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00001115
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001116- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
1117 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00001118
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001119- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
1120 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00001121
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00001122- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00001123 take keyword arguments.
1124
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001125- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
1126 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00001127
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001128- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
1129 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00001130
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00001131- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
1132
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00001133- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
1134 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
1135
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00001136- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
1137
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001138- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00001139
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001140- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00001141 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
1142
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001143- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
1144 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00001145
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001146- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00001147
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001148- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00001149
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001150- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00001151 occurred in the argument chain.
1152
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00001153- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
1154
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001155- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
1156 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00001157
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001158- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00001159 separator and end should be unicode also.
1160
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00001161- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
1162 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00001163
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001164- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
1165 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
1166 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00001167
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00001168- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
1169
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00001170- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
1171 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
1172
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00001173- Removed the ipaddr module.
1174
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00001175- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
1176 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
1177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001178- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00001179
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00001180- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
1181 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
1182
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00001183- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
1184
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001185- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
1186 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00001187
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00001188- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001189 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00001190
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001191- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
1192 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00001193
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00001194- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001195 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00001196
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00001197- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
1198 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
1199
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001200- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
1201 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
1202 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00001203
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00001204- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
1205
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001206- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
1207 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00001208
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001209- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00001210
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00001211- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00001212
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001213 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
1214 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
1215 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00001216
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001217- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
1218 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
1219 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
1220 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
1221 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
1222 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
1223 complex.__format__ in the same way.
1224
1225- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
1226 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
1227 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00001228
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00001229- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001230 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00001231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001232- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
1233 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00001234
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001235- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
1236 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00001237
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001238- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
1239 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00001240
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001241- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
1242 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00001243
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00001244- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
1245 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
1246
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00001247- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
1248
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001249- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
1250 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00001251
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001252- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
1253 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001254
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001255- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
1256 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001257
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001258- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
1259 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001260
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001261- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
1262 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00001263
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001264- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00001265 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00001266
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001267- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
1268 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00001269
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00001270- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
1271
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001272- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00001273
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001274- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
1275 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00001276
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001277- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00001278
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00001279- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
1280 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
1281
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00001282- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
1283
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001284- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
1285 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00001286
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00001287- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001288 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
1289 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
1290 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00001291
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001292- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
1293 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
1294 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00001295
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001296- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
1297 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
1298 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
1299 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
1300 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00001301
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00001302- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
1303 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
1304
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001305- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
1306 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
1307 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00001308
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001309- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
1310 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00001311
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001312- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00001313 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
1314
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001315- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
1316 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00001317
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001318- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
1319 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00001320
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001321- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
1322 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00001323
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00001324- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
1325 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
1326
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001327- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
1328 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00001329
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00001330- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
1331
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001332- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00001333 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
1334 zip(), and bytearray().
1335
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00001336- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
1337 functions.
1338
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00001339- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
1340 OSError.
1341
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00001342- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
1343
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001344- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
1345 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
1346 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00001347
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00001348- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
1349 __next__ method.
1350
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00001351- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
1352
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00001353- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
1354
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00001355- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
1356 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
1357 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00001358 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00001359 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
1360
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00001361- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
1362
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001363- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
1364 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
1365 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
1366 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
1367 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00001368
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001369- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00001370
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00001371- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
1372 file with `str' filename on Windows.
1373
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00001374- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
1375 did not get collected.
1376
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001377- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
1378 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00001379
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00001380- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
1381 directory on POSIX systems.
1382
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00001383- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
1384 systems.
1385
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00001386- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001387 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00001388
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00001389- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
1390 fail.
1391
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001392- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
1393 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
1394 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00001395
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00001396- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
1397
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001398- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
1399 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00001400
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001401- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
1402 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00001403
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001404- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00001405
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001406- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
1407 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
1408 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
1409 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00001410
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00001411- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
1412 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
1413 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
1414
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001415- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
1416 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00001417
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00001418- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
1419 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
1420
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001421- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
1422 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
1423 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
1424 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00001425
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00001426- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
1427 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
1428
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001429- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00001430
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00001431- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
1432
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00001433- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
1434
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00001435- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
1436 exec statement.
1437
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001438- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
1439 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00001440
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00001441- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
1442 __future__ import didn't work.
1443
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00001444- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00001445 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00001446
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001447- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
1448 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
1449 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
1450 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00001451
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001452- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
1453 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
1454 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
1455 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00001456
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001457- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
1458 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00001459
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00001460- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
1461
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00001462- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
1463
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00001464- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
1465
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001466- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
1467 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00001468
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00001469- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
1470 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00001471
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00001472- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
1473 returned them on 64bit platforms.
1474
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00001475- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
1476 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
1477 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
1478 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
1479
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00001480- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
1481 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
1482
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001483- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
1484 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
1485 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
1486 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00001487
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001488Library
1489-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00001490
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00001491- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00001492
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00001493- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
1494
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001495- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
1496 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00001497
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001498- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00001499 TLS with authentication credentials.
1500
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001501- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
1502 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00001503
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00001504- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
1505 msvc9compiler.
1506
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001507- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
1508 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
1509 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00001510
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00001511- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
1512 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
1513 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
1514
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001515- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
1516 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00001517
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00001518- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
1519
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00001520- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001521 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00001522 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
1523
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001524- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
1525 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
1526 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00001527
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00001528- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
1529
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001530- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
1531 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00001532
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00001533- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
1534 raises ReadError on empty files.
1535
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001536- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00001537
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00001538- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
1539 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00001540
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001541- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
1542 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00001543
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001544- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
1545 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00001546
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001547- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00001548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001549- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
1550 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00001551
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001552- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
1553 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00001554
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001555- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
1556 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
1557 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00001558 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
1559 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
1560
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001561- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
1562 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
1563 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00001564
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00001565- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001566 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00001567 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
1568
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001569- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
1570 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
1571 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00001572
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00001573- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
1574 which are part of a reference cycle.
1575
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001576- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
1577 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00001578
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001579- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00001580 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
1581 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
1582
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001583- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
1584 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
1585 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
1586 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00001587
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001588- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
1589 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
1590 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
1591 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00001592
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00001593- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
1594 header as required by RFC 1952.
1595
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00001596- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
1597 Distutils.
1598
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00001599- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
1600 an uppercase.
1601
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001602- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
1603 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00001604
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00001605- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
1606 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
1607
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00001608- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00001609 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
1610
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00001611- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
1612 protocol 2.
1613
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00001614- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
1615
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00001616- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
1617 larger than emax.
1618
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001619- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
1620 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00001621
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00001622- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
1623
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001624- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00001625
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00001626- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
1627
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001628- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00001629
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001630- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00001631
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00001632- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
1633 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001634
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001635- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
1636 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00001637
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001638- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
1639 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00001640
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001641- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00001642 Distutils.
1643
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001644- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00001645
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001646- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
1647 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00001648
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001649- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
1650 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00001651
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00001652- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
1653
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00001654- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
1655
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001656- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
1657 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00001658
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001659- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
1660 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00001661
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001662- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
1663 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00001664
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00001665- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
1666
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00001667- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
1668
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00001669- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001670 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
1671 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00001672
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001673- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00001674
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001675- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
1676 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
1677 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00001678
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001679- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
1680 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00001681
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001682- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00001683
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001684- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
1685 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
1686 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
1687 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00001688
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00001689- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
1690 as documented.
1691
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00001692- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
1693 names in the webbrowser module.
1694
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00001695- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
1696
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00001697- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
1698 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
1699
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00001700- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
1701
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00001702- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
1703
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00001704- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
1705
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00001706- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
1707
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00001708- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
1709
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00001710- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
1711 ScrolledText.
1712
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00001713- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
1714
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001715- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
1716 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00001717
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00001718- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
1719 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
1720 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
1721 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
1722
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00001723- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
1724 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
1725
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00001726- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001727 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
1728 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00001729
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001730- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
1731 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
1732 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00001733
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00001734- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
1735 opening an empty or very small file.
1736
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00001737- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
1738 containing incomplete data.
1739
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001740- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
1741 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00001742
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00001743- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
1744
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001745- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
1746 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
1747 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00001748
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00001749- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00001750
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001751- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
1752 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
1753 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
1754 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00001755
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001756- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00001757
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001758- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
1759
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00001760- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
1761 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
1762
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001763- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00001764
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001765- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00001766 attribute.
1767
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00001768- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
1769
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00001770- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
1771 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
1772
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00001773- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
1774
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001775- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00001776 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001777 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00001778
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001779- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00001780 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
1781
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00001782- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
1783
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001784- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
1785 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00001786 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
1787
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001788- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00001789 argument.
1790
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001791- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
1792 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00001793
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001794- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00001795
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00001796- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
1797
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00001798- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
1799
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00001800- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
1801 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
1802
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001803- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
1804 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00001805
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00001806- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
1807 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
1808 ``io`` module.
1809
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00001810- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
1811
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00001812- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001813 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
1814
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00001815- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
1816
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001817- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
1818 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
1819 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00001820
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00001821- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
1822
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001823- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
1824 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00001825
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00001826- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
1827
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00001828- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
1829 whitespace.
1830
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001831- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
1832 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00001833
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00001834- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
1835 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
1836
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001837- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
1838 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00001839
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001840- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
1841 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00001842
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00001843- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
1844 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
1845 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
1846
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00001847- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
1848 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001849
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001850- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
1851 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
1852 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00001853
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00001854- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
1855 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
1856
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001857- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00001858 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
1859
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001860- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00001861
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001862- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
1863 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00001864
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001865- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00001866 subcommand.
1867
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00001868- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
1869 deepcopy()ing.
1870
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001871- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00001872
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00001873- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
1874
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001875- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00001876
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001877- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00001878 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
1879
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00001880- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
1881 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
1882
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00001883- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001884 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00001885
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001886- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
1887 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00001888
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00001889- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
1890 trying to print a traceback.
1891
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00001892- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
1893
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001894- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
1895 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00001896
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001897- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
1898 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
1899 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00001900 Cournapeau.
1901
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001902- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
1903 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00001904
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001905- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
1906 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00001907
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00001908- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
1909
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00001910- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
1911 looking for files given by a relative filename.
1912
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001913- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00001914 extracting a file to the root directory.
1915
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001916- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00001917
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001918- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
1919 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
1920 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00001921
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00001922- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
1923 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
1924
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00001925- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
1926 Contributed by Google.
1927
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00001928- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
1929
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001930- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00001931
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00001932- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
1933
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001934- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
1935 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00001936 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
1937
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001938- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00001939 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
1940 initialized before.
1941
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00001942- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
1943 names which should not be exported.
1944
1945- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001946 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00001947
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00001948- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
1949
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001950- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
1951 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00001952
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00001953- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
1954
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00001955- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001956 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00001957
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001958- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
1959 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
1960 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00001961
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00001962- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
1963
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001964- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
1965
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001966- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
1967 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
1968 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
1969 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
1970 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00001971
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001972- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00001973
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001974- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
1975 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00001976
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001977- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00001978
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001979- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001980 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00001981
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001982- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
1983 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00001984
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001985- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
1986 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00001987
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001988- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
1989 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00001990
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001991- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
1992 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00001993
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001994- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00001995
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001996- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00001997
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001998- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00001999
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002000- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00002001
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002002- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00002003 mailbox.MH.get_message().
2004
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002005- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
2006 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00002007
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002008- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
2009 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
2010 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00002011
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002012- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
2013 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002014
2015- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00002016 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002017
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002018- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
2019 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00002020 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
2021 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
2022
2023- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
2024 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002025
2026- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00002027 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002028
2029- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00002030 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00002031
2032- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
2033 called immediately before and after a test run.
2034
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002035- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00002036 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
2037 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
2038 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002039
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002040- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00002041
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00002042- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
2043 printing out values.
2044
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002045- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00002046
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00002047- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
2048 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
2049 threads.
2050
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00002051- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
2052
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00002053- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
2054
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002055- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00002056 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
2057 that it was failing to do localization.
2058
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002059- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00002060 Brandl.
2061
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002062- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
2063 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00002064
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00002065- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
2066 with the threading module.
2067
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002068- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00002069
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00002070- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
2071
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002072- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
2073 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00002074
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002075- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002076 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
2077 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00002078
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002079- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
2080 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00002081
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00002082- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
2083 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
2084 output compared to previous Python versions.
2085
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00002086- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
2087
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002088- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002089 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
2090 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002091
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002092- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
2093 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
2094 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
2095 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002096
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002097- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
2098 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
2099 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
2100 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00002101
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00002102- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
2103 even if an exception occurs.
2104
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00002105- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
2106 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
2107
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002108- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
2109 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00002110
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002111- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
2112 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00002113
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002114- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00002115 character.
2116
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002117- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
2118 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00002119
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002120- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00002121
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00002122- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002123 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
2124 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00002125
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002126- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
2127 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
2128 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00002129
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00002130- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
2131
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002132- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00002133 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
2134
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00002135- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
2136
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00002137- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
2138
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002139- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00002140
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00002141- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
2142
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00002143- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
2144
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00002145- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
2146 ready received.
2147
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00002148- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
2149 import guess_extension`` was used.
2150
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002151- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
2152 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00002153
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00002154- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
2155 overrun.
2156
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00002157- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
2158 bdist_rpm command.
2159
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002160- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00002161
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002162- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00002163
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00002164- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
2165 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
2166
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002167- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
2168 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00002169
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00002170- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
2171 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002172
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002173- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
2174 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00002175
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00002176- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
2177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002178- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
2179 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00002180
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002181- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00002182 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
2183
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00002184- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
2185 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
2186
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002187- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00002188
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002189- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
2190 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00002191
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00002192- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
2193 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
2194
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00002195- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
2196 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
2197
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00002198- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002199 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00002200 ctime of the files involved.
2201
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00002202- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
2203 deadlock.
2204
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002205- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
2206 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
2207 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00002208
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00002209- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
2210
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002211- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
2212 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002213
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002214- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
2215 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00002216
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002217- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
2218 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
2219 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00002220
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002221- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
2222 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
2223 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
2224 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00002225
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002226- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00002227 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
2228
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002229- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
2230 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00002231
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00002232- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
2233 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
2234
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002235- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00002236 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
2237
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00002238- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
2239
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002240- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
2241 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00002242
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002243- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
2244 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00002245
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00002246- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
2247
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002248- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00002249 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
2250
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002251- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
2252 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00002253
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002254- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
2255 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00002256
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00002257- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
2258
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002259- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00002260
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002261- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
2262 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00002263
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002264- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
2265 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00002266
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002267- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00002268 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
2269
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002270- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
2271 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00002272
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002273- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
2274 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00002275
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002276- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002277 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
2278 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00002279
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002280- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
2281 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
2282 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
2283 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00002284
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002285- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
2286 parameter was set.
2287
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00002288- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
2289 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00002290 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00002291
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00002292- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002293 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
2294 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00002295
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00002296- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
2297 in sharedctypes.py.
2298
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00002299- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
2300 __getattr__.
2301
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002302- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
2303 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00002304
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002305- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00002306 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
2307
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002308- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00002309
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00002310- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
2311
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00002312- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002313 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
2314 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00002315 Jacques Frechet.
2316
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00002317- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
2318
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002319- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00002320 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
2321
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00002322- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002323 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
2324 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00002325
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002326- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
2327 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00002328
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002329- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
2330 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00002331
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00002332- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
2333 the function is not a generator.
2334
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002335- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
2336 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00002337
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002338- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
2339 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00002340
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002341- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
2342 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00002343
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002344- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
2345 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00002346
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00002347- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
2348
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00002349- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
2350
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002351- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
2352 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00002353
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002354- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
2355 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00002356
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00002357- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
2358 Gabriel Genellina.
2359
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00002360- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
2361
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00002362- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
2363
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002364- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00002365
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002366- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
2367 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
2368 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00002369
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002370- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
2371 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002372 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
2373
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002374- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
2375 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
2376 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002377
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002378- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
2379 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
2380 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
2381 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
2382 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002383
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002384- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
2385 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002386
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00002387- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
2388 when given an unicode string.
2389
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00002390- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
2391
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002392- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
2393 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
2394 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00002395
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002396- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
2397 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00002398
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002399- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00002400
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002401- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00002402 statements.
2403
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00002404- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
2405 not a malformed option.
2406
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002407- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
2408 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00002409
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00002410- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2411 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2412 Content-Disposition headers.
2413
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00002414- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002415 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
2416 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
2417 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
2418 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00002419
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00002420- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
2421 exception.
2422
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002423- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
2424 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00002425
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00002426- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
2427
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00002428- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
2429
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00002430- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
2431 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
2432
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00002433- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
2434 and then remove it.
2435
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00002436- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
2437
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00002438- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
2439 debugging.
2440
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00002441- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
2442 inspect.getargvalues.
2443
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00002444- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
2445
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00002446- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
2447 to claiming it is Mature.
2448
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00002449- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
2450 when protocol 0 is used.
2451
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00002452- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
2453 to be consistent with Apple tools.
2454
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00002455- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002456 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00002457
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00002458- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
2459
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002460- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00002461 module.
2462
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002463- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
2464 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00002465
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002466- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00002467
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002468- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00002469
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00002470- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002471 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00002472
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00002473- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002474 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
2475 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00002476
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00002477- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
2478 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
2479
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002480- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
2481 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00002482
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00002483- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
2484 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
2485 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
2486
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00002487- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
2488
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00002489Tools/Demos
2490-----------
2491
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002492- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00002493
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002494- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00002495
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00002496Build
2497-----
2498
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002499- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
2500 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
2501 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00002502
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002503- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
2504 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
2505 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002506
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002507- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00002508
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00002509- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
2510
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002511- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
2512 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00002513
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002514- Issue 5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
2515 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00002516
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002517- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
2518 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00002519
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00002520- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
2521
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00002522- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
2523
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002524- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
2525 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00002526
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00002527- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00002528 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00002529
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00002530- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
2531
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00002532- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
2533
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00002534- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
2535
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00002536- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
2537
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002538- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00002539
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00002540- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
2541
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00002542- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
2543
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00002544- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
2545
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00002546- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
2547
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00002548- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
2549
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00002550- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
2551
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00002552- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
2553
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002554- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00002555
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00002556- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
2557
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00002558Documentation
2559-------------
2560
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002561- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
2562 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00002563
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002564- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
2565 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00002566
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00002567C-API
2568-----
2569
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00002570- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
2571
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002572- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
2573 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00002574
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002575- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
2576 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00002577
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002578- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
2579 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00002580
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002581- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
2582 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00002583
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00002584- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
2585 PyCode_Addr2Line().
2586
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00002587- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
2588 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
2589
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00002590- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
2591 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
2592
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00002593- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
2594
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002595- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
2596 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00002597
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00002598- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
2599
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002600- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
2601 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00002602
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00002603- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
2604 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002605
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002606- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00002607 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00002608
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00002609Extension Modules
2610-----------------
2611
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00002612- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
2613
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00002614- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
2615
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002616- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00002617
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00002618- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002619 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00002620
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002621- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
2622 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00002623
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002624- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
2625 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00002626
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00002627- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
2628 module.
2629
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00002630- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
2631
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00002632- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00002633 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00002634
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002635- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
2636 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
2637 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00002638
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002639- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
2640 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
2641 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00002642
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002643- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
2644 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
2645 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00002646
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002647 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
2648 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00002649
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002650 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
2651 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
2652 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
2653 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
2654 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
2655 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
2656 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00002657
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002658 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
2659 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
2660 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002661
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00002662- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
2663
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002664- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
2665 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00002666
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00002667- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
2668 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00002669 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00002670
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00002671- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00002672
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00002673- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
2674
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00002675- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
2676
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00002677- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
2678
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00002679- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
2680
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00002681- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
2682 OpenBSD.
2683
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00002684- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
2685
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00002686- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
2687
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00002688- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
2689
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00002690Tests
2691-----
2692
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002693- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
2694 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
2695 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00002696
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002697- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
2698 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00002699
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002700- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
2701 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00002702
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00002703- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
2704
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00002705- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
2706 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
2707
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00002708- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002709 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
2710 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
2711 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00002712
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002713- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
2714 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00002715
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00002716- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
2717 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
2718
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00002719- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
2720 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
2721 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00002722
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00002723- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
2724
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00002725- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
2726 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
2727
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00002728- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
2729 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002730 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
2731 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00002732
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00002733- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
2734 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
2735
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002736- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
2737 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
2738 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
2739 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
2740 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00002741
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00002742- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
2743
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00002744- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
2745
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00002746- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
2747
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002748- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
2749 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
2750 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00002751
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00002752- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
2753
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00002754- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
2755 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
2756 incorrectly on __exit__.
2757
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00002758- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
2759
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00002760Misc
2761----
2762
2763- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
2764
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002765
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002766What's New in Python 2.6 final
2767==============================
2768
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00002769*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002770
2771Core and Builtins
2772-----------------
2773
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00002774- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
2775 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
2776
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00002777- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
2778 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
2779
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00002780- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
2781
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002782Library
2783-------
2784
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00002785- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
2786 true singleton object.
2787
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00002788- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
2789 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
2790 into a float.
2791
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00002792- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
2793
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00002794- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
2795 sizes.
2796
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00002797- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
2798
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00002799- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
2800 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
2801
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00002802Build
2803-----
2804
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00002805- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
2806 installer.
2807
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00002808- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
2809
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002810
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00002811What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
2812=============================================
2813
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00002814*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00002815
2816Core and Builtins
2817-----------------
2818
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00002819Extension Modules
2820-----------------
2821
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00002822- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
2823 segfault as a result.
2824
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00002825- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
2826 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00002827
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00002828Tools/Demos
2829-----------
2830
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00002831- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00002832 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
2833 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
2834 are caught and silenced.
2835
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00002836Build
2837-----
2838
2839- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
2840 C runtime in the Windows installer.
2841
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00002842
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002843What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
2844=============================================
2845
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00002846*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002847
2848Core and Builtins
2849-----------------
2850
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00002851- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
2852
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00002853- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
2854 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
2855 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
2856 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
2857 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
2858 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
2859 64bit values.
2860
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00002861- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
2862 error.
2863
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00002864- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
2865 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
2866 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
2867 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
2868
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00002869- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
2870 a unicode argument.
2871
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00002872- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
2873
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00002874- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00002875 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00002876 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
2877
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00002878- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00002879 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
2880 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
2881 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
2882 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
2883 type object.
2884
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00002885- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
2886
2887- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
2888
2889- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
2890
2891- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
2892
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00002893- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
2894 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
2895
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00002896- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
2897 ``__delslice__``.
2898
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00002899- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
2900 library targets in the Makefile.
2901
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00002902- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
2903 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
2904 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
2905
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00002906C-API
2907-----
2908
2909- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
2910
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002911Library
2912-------
2913
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00002914- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
2915 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
2916
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00002917- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
2918
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00002919- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
2920
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00002921- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
2922 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
2923 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
2924
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00002925- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
2926
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00002927- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00002928 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
2929
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00002930- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
2931
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00002932- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
2933
2934- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00002935
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00002936- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
2937 its symbolic link.
2938
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00002939- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
2940
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00002941- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
2942 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
2943 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
2944
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00002945- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
2946 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
2947
2948- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00002949
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00002950- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
2951 path to the Python binary.
2952
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00002953- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
2954 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
2955 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
2956 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
2957
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00002958- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
2959
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00002960- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
2961
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00002962- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
2963
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00002964- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
2965
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00002966- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
2967 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00002968
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00002969- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
2970 non-integer floating point number.
2971
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00002972- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00002973 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
2974
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00002975Extension Modules
2976-----------------
2977
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00002978- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
2979 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
2980
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00002981- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
2982 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
2983 without limit.
2984
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00002985- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
2986 exploitation of poor argument checking.
2987
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00002988- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
2989
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00002990- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
2991 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
2992
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00002993- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
2994 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
2995 threads/processes.
2996
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00002997Tests
2998-----
2999
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00003000- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
3001 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
3002 that expected warning messages are being reported.
3003
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00003004- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
3005
3006- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00003007
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00003008Build
3009-----
3010
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00003011- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
3012
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00003013- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
3014 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
3015
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00003016- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
3017
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00003018- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00003019 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00003020
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003021
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003022What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
3023================================
3024
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00003025*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003026
3027Core and Builtins
3028-----------------
3029
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00003030- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
3031 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
3032 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
3033 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
3034 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
3035 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
3036 default.
3037
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00003038- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
3039 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
3040
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00003041- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
3042 value again.
3043
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00003044- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
3045 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
3046 and introducing s*.
3047
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00003048- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
3049 object was stored in the freelist.
3050
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00003051- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
3052 ValueError consistently across platforms.
3053
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00003054- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
3055 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
3056 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
3057
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00003058- Apply security patches from Apple.
3059
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00003060- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
3061 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
3062
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00003063- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
3064 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
3065
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00003066- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
3067 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
3068 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
3069
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00003070- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
3071 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
3072 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
3073 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
3074 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
3075 failed have been fixed.
3076
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003077Library
3078-------
3079
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00003080- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
3081
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00003082- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
3083 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
3084
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00003085- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
3086 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
3087 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
3088
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00003089- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
3090 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
3091 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
3092 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
3093 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
3094 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
3095
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00003096- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
3097 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
3098
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00003099- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
3100
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00003101- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
3102
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00003103- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
3104
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00003105- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
3106 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
3107
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00003108- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00003109 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
3110
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00003111- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
3112 in a redirect.
3113
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00003114- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00003115 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00003116
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00003117- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
3118 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
3119
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00003120- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
3121 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
3122 regular expression.
3123
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00003124- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
3125 thread-safe.
3126
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00003127- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
3128 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
3129 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
3130
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00003131- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
3132
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00003133- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
3134 menu entries were not deleted.
3135
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00003136- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
3137 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
3138
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00003139- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
3140 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
3141
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00003142- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
3143 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
3144 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
3145
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00003146- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
3147 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
3148 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
3149
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00003150- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
3151 the reload() built-in has been removed.
3152
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00003153- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00003154 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00003155 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
3156 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
3157 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
3158 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
3159 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00003160
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00003161- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
3162 raised an AttributeError.
3163
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00003164- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00003165 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
3166 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00003167
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00003168- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
3169 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
3170
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00003171- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
3172
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00003173- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
3174 on a closed shelf.
3175
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00003176- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
3177
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003178- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
3179
3180- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
3181 invalid arguments.
3182
3183- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
3184 with None arguments.
3185
3186- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
3187 configuration files.
3188
3189- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
3190
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00003191- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
3192 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
3193 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
3194
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00003195- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
3196 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
3197 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
3198
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00003199Build
3200-----
3201
3202- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
3203
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00003204Documentation
3205-------------
3206
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00003207- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
3208 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
3209
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00003210- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
3211 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
3212 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
3213 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
3214
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003215
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00003216What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
3217================================
3218
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003219*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
3220
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00003221Core and Builtins
3222-----------------
3223
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00003224- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
3225 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
3226 an integer using operator.index().
3227
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00003228- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
3229 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
3230
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00003231- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
3232 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
3233
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00003234- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
3235 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
3236 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
3237
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00003238- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
3239 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
3240 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
3241 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
3242 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
3243 level.
3244
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00003245- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
3246 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
3247 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
3248 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
3249 all imports from that module to fail.
3250
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00003251- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
3252 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
3253 new-style classes.
3254
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00003255- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
3256 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
3257 another file in sys.stdout.
3258
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00003259- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
3260 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
3261 another thread's dictionary.
3262
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00003263- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
3264 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
3265 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
3266 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
3267 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
3268 10, -1).
3269
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00003270- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
3271 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
3272 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00003273
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00003274- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
3275 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
3276 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00003277
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003278Library
3279-------
3280
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00003281- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
3282 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
3283 error when they failed.
3284
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00003285- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
3286
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00003287- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
3288
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00003289- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
3290
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00003291- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
3292
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00003293- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
3294 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
3295
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003296- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00003297
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00003298- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
3299 a valid dlerror() message.
3300
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00003301- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
3302 incomplete structure was created.
3303
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00003304- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
3305
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00003306- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
3307
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003308- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00003309
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00003310- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
3311 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003312 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00003313 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
3314 merged into trunk.
3315
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00003316- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
3317
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00003318- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
3319
3320- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
3321
3322- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
3323 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003324 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00003325
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003326- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003327 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00003328
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00003329- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
3330 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
3331
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003332- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
3333 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
3334
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00003335- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
3336 interrupted by a signal.
3337
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003338- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00003339 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
3340 Prevents a deadlock.
3341
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00003342- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
3343 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
3344 default https port (443).
3345
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00003346- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
3347 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
3348 if the new process uses the threading module.
3349
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00003350Tests
3351-----
3352
3353- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
3354 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
3355 have been added to test_warnings.
3356
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00003357Build
3358-----
3359
3360- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
3361
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003362
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00003363Documentation
3364-------------
3365
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00003366- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00003367 Python 3.0.
3368
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00003369- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
3370
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00003371- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
3372 Python 3.0.
3373
3374- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
3375 Python 3.0.
3376
3377
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003378What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
3379================================
3380
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00003381*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003382
3383Core and Builtins
3384-----------------
3385
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00003386- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
3387 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
3388 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
3389 bus error.
3390
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00003391- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
3392 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
3393
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00003394- Add future_builtins.ascii().
3395
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00003396- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00003397 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00003398
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00003399- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
3400
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00003401- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
3402
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00003403- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
3404
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00003405- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
3406
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003407- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
3408 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
3409 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
3410 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00003411
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00003412- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
3413
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003414- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
3415 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00003416
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003417- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
3418 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00003419
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003420- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
3421 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
3422 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00003423
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00003424- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
3425 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
3426 can't be triggered from Python code.
3427
3428
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003429Extension Modules
3430-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00003431- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003432
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00003433- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
3434
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00003435- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00003436
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00003437- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
3438 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
3439
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00003440- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
3441 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
3442
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00003443- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
3444 weakref.proxy.
3445
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003446- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
3447 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00003448
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00003449- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00003450
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00003451- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00003452 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
3453 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00003454
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003455- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
3456 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
3457 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00003458
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00003459- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
3460 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
3461 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
3462
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003463- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00003464
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00003465- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00003466
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003467Library
3468-------
3469
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00003470- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
3471 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
3472
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00003473- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
3474
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00003475- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
3476 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
3477 sense).
3478
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00003479- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
3480
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00003481- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
3482 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
3483 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
3484 the patch.
3485
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003486- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
3487 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
3488 the patch).
3489
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00003490- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
3491 os.uname exists.
3492
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00003493- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
3494
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00003495- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
3496
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00003497- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
3498 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
3499 pointer-like object.
3500
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00003501- Added the ast module.
3502
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003503- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00003504
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00003505- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
3506 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
3507
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00003508- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
3509 to errno.
3510
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003511- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00003512
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003513- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00003514 msilib.Record objects.
3515
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00003516- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
3517 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
3518
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00003519- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
3520 in Python 3.0.
3521
3522- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
3523 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00003524
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00003525- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
3526 False boolean value now.
3527
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00003528- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
3529 transfers.
3530
3531- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
3532 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00003533
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00003534- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
3535 when the TarFile is closed.
3536
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00003537- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
3538 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
3539 an exception.
3540
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00003541- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
3542 otherwise be produced.
3543
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00003544- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
3545 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
3546
3547- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
3548 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
3549
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00003550- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
3551 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
3552 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
3553
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00003554- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
3555
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003556- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00003557 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
3558 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
3559 'm' or 'c'.
3560
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00003561- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3562
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003563- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
3564 removal in Python 3.0.
3565
3566- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3567 3.0.
3568
3569- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3570 3.0.
3571
3572- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3573 3.0.
3574
3575- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00003576 Python 3.0.
3577
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00003578- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
3579 Python 3.0.
3580
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003581- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3582 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00003583
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003584- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3585 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00003586
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003587- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3588 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00003589
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003590- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3591 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00003592
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003593- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00003594 Python 3.0.
3595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003596- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3597 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00003598
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003599- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3600 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00003601
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003602- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3603 3.0.
3604
3605- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
3606 removal in Python 3.0.
3607
3608- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3609 3.0.
3610
3611- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3612 3.0.
3613
3614- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
3615 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00003616
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003617- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
3618 removal in Python 3.0.
3619
3620- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00003621 Python 3.0.
3622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003623- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3624 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00003625
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00003626- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
3627 Python 3.0.
3628
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00003629- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
3630 Python 3.0.
3631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003632- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00003633
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00003634- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3635
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00003636- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3637
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00003638- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
3639
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00003640- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3641
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003642- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
3643 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
3644 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00003645
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003646- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
3647 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00003648
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00003649- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3650
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003651- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
3652 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00003653
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00003654- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3655
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00003656- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3657
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00003658- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3659
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00003660- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3661
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00003662- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3663
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003664- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
3665 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00003666
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00003667- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3668
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00003669- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3670
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00003671- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
3672 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
3673 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
3674 OverflowError.
3675
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00003676- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3677
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003678- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
3679 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00003680
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00003681- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3682
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00003683- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3684
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00003685- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3686
3687- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00003688
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003689- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3690
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00003691- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
3692
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00003693- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
3694
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00003695- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00003696
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003697- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
3698 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00003699
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003700- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00003701 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
3702 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
3703 of Python.
3704
3705- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
3706 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
3707
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00003708- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
3709 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00003710
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003711Build
3712-----
3713
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00003714- The Windows installer now includes Tk 8.5, bzip2 1.0.5, and SQLite 3.5.9.
Martin v. Löwis76307312008-06-12 18:52:00 +00003715
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00003716- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
3717
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00003718- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
3719
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00003720- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
3721 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003722 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00003723
3724 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
3725
3726 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
3727
3728 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
3729
3730 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
3731
3732 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
3733
3734 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
3735
3736
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00003737C API
3738-----
3739
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00003740- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
3741
3742- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00003743
3744- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
3745 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
3746 PyString names.
3747
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00003748
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003749What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003750=================================
3751
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00003752*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003753
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00003754Core and builtins
3755-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00003756
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00003757- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
3758
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003759- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
3760 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00003761
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003762- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
3763 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00003764
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003765- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00003766
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00003767Extension Modules
3768-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003769
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003770- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
3771 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00003772
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00003773- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
3774
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003775- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
3776 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00003777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003778- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
3779 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00003780
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003781- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
3782 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00003783
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003784- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
3785 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
3786 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
3787 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
3788 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
3789 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
3790 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
3791 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00003792
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003793Library
3794-------
3795
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00003796- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3797
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003798- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
3799 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00003800
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00003801- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
3802
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003803- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
3804 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00003805
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00003806- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
3807 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
3808 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
3809
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00003810- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003811 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00003812
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00003813- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00003814 reference to themselves.
3815
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00003816- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
3817 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
3818 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00003819
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00003820- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
3821 1900-01-01.
3822
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00003823- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
3824 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
3825
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00003826- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
3827 now implemented in C for better performance.
3828
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003829- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
3830 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
3831 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00003832
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003833- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00003834 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
3835 build documentation for more information.
3836
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00003837- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
3838 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
3839 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
3840 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
3841
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00003842- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
3843 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
3844 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
3845
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003846- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
3847 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
3848 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
3849 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00003850
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003851Tests
3852-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00003853
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003854- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
3855 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
3856 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
3857 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
3858 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
3859 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
3860 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
3861 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
3862 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
3863 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
3864 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
3865 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
3866 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
3867 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
3868 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
3869 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
3870 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
3871 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
3872 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
3873 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
3874
3875 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
3876 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
3877 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
3878 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
3879 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
3880 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
3881 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
3882 access to the underlying socket used.
3883
3884 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
3885 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
3886 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00003887
3888 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003889 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00003890 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
3891 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
3892
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003893 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
3894 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003895
3896Build
3897-----
3898
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00003899- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
3900
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00003901- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
3902 gcc is used as compiler.
3903
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00003904- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003905 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00003906
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003907C API
3908-----
3909
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003910- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
3911 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
3912 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
3913 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00003914
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00003915- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00003916
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003917
3918What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
3919=================================
3920
3921*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
3922
3923Core and builtins
3924-----------------
3925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003926- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
3927 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
3928 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00003929
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00003930- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
3931 cannot be executed.
3932
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00003933- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
3934 reference on the outer class name.
3935
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00003936- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003937 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00003938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003939- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
3940 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00003941
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00003942- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003943
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00003944- Added backport of bytearray type.
3945
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00003946- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
3947
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00003948- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003949 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
3950 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
3951 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
3952 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
3953 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00003954
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00003955- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
3956
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003957- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
3958 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00003959
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00003960- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00003961
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00003962- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
3963
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003964- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
3965 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00003966
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003967- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
3968 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00003969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003970- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00003971 exception instances.
3972
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00003973- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003974 doesn't derive from BaseException.
3975
3976- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
3977 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00003978
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00003979- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
3980 memory usage in some circumstances.
3981
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003982- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
3983 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
3984 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00003985
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00003986- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
3987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003988- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00003989 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
3990 longer passed.
3991
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00003992- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
3993
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003994- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
3995 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
3996 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00003997
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003998- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
3999 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00004000
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00004001- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
4002
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00004003Extension Modules
4004-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00004005
4006- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
4007
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004008Library
4009-------
4010
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004011- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
4012 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004013
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004014- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
4015 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
4016 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004017
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004018- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
4019 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004020
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004021- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
4022 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
4023 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00004024
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004025- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
4026 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00004027
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00004028- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
4029
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00004030- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
4031 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
4032 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
4033
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00004034- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
4035
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00004036- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
4037 advertised in the docs.
4038
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004039- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00004040
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004041- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00004042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004043- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
4044 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00004045
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00004046- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
4047 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
4048
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004049- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
4050 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00004051 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
4052 information as well.
4053
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004054- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
4055 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00004056
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004057- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
4058 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00004059
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004060- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
4061 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
4062 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00004063
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00004064- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
4065 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
4066 strftime.
4067
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00004068- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004069 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
4070 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00004071
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00004072- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
4073 correctly under win32
4074
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004075- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00004076
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00004077- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004078 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
4079 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
4080 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00004081
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00004082- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
4083 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
4084
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004085- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
4086 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00004087
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004088- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
4089 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
4090 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00004091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004092- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00004093 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
4094
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00004095- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
4096 from 't' to '?'.
4097
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004098- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
4099 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004100 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
4101 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
4102 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004103
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004104- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
4105 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00004106
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00004107Tests
4108-----
4109
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004110- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
4111 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00004112
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00004113- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
4114
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00004115- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
4116
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00004117- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
4118
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00004119- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
4120
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004121- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
4122 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00004123
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00004124- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
4125
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00004126- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
4127
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004128- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
4129 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00004130
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00004131- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
4132
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00004133- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
4134
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00004135- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
4136 permission to create files in the root directory.
4137
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00004138Build
4139-----
4140
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00004141- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
4142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004143- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
4144 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00004145
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00004146- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00004147
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004148C API
4149-----
4150
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004151- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004152 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
4153
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004154
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004155What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
4156=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004157
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00004158*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004159
4160Core and builtins
4161-----------------
4162
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00004163- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00004164 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00004165
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00004166- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
4167
4168- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00004169
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004170- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00004171 issue 215555 for a discussion.
4172
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00004173- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
4174 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
4175 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
4176 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
4177 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
4178 module is:
4179 from future_builtins import hex, oct
4180
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00004181- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
4182 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
4183 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
4184 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
4185 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
4186 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
4187
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00004188- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
4189 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
4190 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
4191 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
4192 PyObject_Format().
4193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004194- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
4195 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
4196 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00004197
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004198- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004199 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
4200 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00004201
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004202- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
4203 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00004204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004205- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
4206 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
4207 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00004208
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004209- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
4210 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
4211 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00004212
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00004213- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
4214 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
4215
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004216- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004217 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00004218
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004219- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
4220 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00004221 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
4222
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004223- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
4224 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
4225 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00004226
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004227- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
4228 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00004229
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004230- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
4231 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00004232
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004233- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
4234 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00004235
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004236- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
4237 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00004238
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004239- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
4240 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
4241 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00004242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004243- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
4244 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
4245 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
4246 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00004247
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00004248- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
4249 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
4250 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
4251
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004252- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00004253 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
4254 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
4255
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004256- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00004257 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
4258 support.
4259
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00004260- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
4261 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
4262
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00004263- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
4264
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004265- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00004266 added.
4267
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00004268- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
4269 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
4270
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004271- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
4272 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00004273
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004274- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
4275 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
4276 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00004277
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004278- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
4279 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00004280
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00004281- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
4282 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00004283
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00004284- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
4285
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004286- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
4287 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
4288 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00004289
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004290- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
4291 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
4292 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00004293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004294- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00004295
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004296- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
4297 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00004298
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00004299- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004300 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
4301 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00004302
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004303- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
4304 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
4305 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
4306 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00004307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004308- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00004309
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004310- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
4311 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00004312
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004313- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
4314 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00004315
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00004316- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00004317 SystemError.
4318
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00004319- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
4320 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
4321 __package__ attribute.
4322
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004323- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
4324 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
4325 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00004326
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00004327- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
4328
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004329- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00004330 attribute of an empty cell object.
4331
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004332- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
4333 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00004334
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004335- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
4336 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
4337 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
4338 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00004339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004340- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
4341 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
4342 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00004343
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00004344- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
4345
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00004346- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
4347
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00004348- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
4349
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004350- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004351 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
4352 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00004353
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004354- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
4355 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
4356 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
4357 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
4358 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
4359 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00004360
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004361- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
4362 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
4363 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
4364 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
4365 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00004366
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004367- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
4368 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
4369 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00004370
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004371- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
4372 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00004373
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00004374- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004375 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
4376 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
4377 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
4378 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
4379 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00004380
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004381- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
4382 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00004383
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00004384- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
4385 with %G.
4386
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004387- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
4388 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00004389
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004390- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00004391
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004392- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00004393
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00004394- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004395 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
4396 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00004397
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00004398- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
4399 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
4400
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00004401- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
4402 calls.
4403
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00004404- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004405 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
4406 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00004407
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00004408- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
4409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004410- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004411 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00004412
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004413- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00004414 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
4415
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00004416- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
4417
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00004418- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
4419 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
4420 remaining characters.
4421
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00004422- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
4423 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
4424
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00004425- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
4426
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00004427- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
4428 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
4429 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
4430 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
4431 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00004432 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
4433 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00004434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004435- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
4436 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
4437 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
4438 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
4439 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00004440
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004441- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
4442 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
4443 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00004444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004445- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
4446 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00004447
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004448- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
4449 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
4450 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00004451
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004452- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
4453 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00004454
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00004455- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
4456
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00004457- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
4458 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
4459
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00004460- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004461 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
4462 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
4463 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00004464
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00004465- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
4466 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
4467
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004468- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
4469 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00004470
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004471- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
4472 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
4473 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00004474
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00004475- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004476 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
4477 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00004478
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00004479- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
4480 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004481 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
4482 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00004483
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004484- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
4485 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00004486
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004487- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
4488 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00004489
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00004490- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
4491 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
4492
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004493- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
4494 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
4495 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00004496
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004497- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
4498 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00004499
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004500- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
4501 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00004502
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004503- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
4504 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
4505 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00004506
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00004507- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
4508 frame's thread state.
4509
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004510- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
4511 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00004512
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004513- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
4514 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00004515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004516- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
4517 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00004518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004519- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
4520 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00004521
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004522- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
4523 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00004524
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00004525- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
4526
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00004527- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
4528
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00004529- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
4530
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004531- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
4532 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00004533
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004534- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00004535
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00004536- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
4537 again, no longer the posix error code.
4538
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00004539- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
4540 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
4541
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004542- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
4543 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00004544
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00004545- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
4546 embedded in the string to convert.
4547
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00004548- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
4549 recognized and rejected.
4550
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00004551- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
4552
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00004553- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
4554 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
4555 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00004556
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00004557- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
4558 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
4559
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00004560- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004561 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
4562 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00004563
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004564- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
4565 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
4566 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00004567
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00004568- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
4569
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00004570- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
4571
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00004572- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
4573
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004574- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
4575 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
4576 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00004577
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00004578- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
4579 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
4580 'exceptions'.
4581
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00004582- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
4583 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
4584
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00004585- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
4586 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
4587
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00004588- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
4589
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00004590- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
4591
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00004592- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
4593 head is the original string if sep was not found.
4594
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00004595- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004596 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
4597 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
4598 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00004599
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004600- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00004601
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004602- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
4603 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004604
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00004605- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
4606 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00004607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004608- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00004609 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
4610 it actually exited.
4611
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004612
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004613Library
4614-------
4615
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004616- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00004617
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00004618- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
4619
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00004620- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
4621
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004622- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
4623 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00004624
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004625- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00004626
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004627- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
4628 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
4629 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00004630
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004631- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
4632 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00004633
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004634- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00004635 (ignore-case)
4636
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00004637- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
4638 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
4639 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
4640 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
4641
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004642- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
4643 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00004644
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004645- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
4646 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00004647
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00004648- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
4649 pickled.
4650
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00004651- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
4652 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
4653
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00004654- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
4655 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
4656 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
4657
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004658- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
4659 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00004660
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004661- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
4662 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
4663 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00004664
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004665- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
4666 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00004667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004668- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
4669 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00004670
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004671- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
4672 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
4673 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
4674 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00004675
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004676- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
4677 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004678 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
4679
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00004680- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
4681
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004682- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
4683 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00004684
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004685- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00004686
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004687- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
4688 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004689
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004690- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
4691 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004692
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004693- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
4694 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004695
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004696- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
4697 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004698
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004699- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
4700 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
4701 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00004702
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004703- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
4704 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00004705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004706- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
4707 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00004708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004709- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
4710 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00004711
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004712- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
4713 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00004714
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004715- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
4716 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00004717
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004718- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
4719 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00004720
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00004721- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
4722 with extended local headers.
4723
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004724- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
4725 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00004726
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004727- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00004728 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
4729 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
4730
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004731- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
4732 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00004733
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004734- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
4735 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00004736
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004737- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
4738 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00004739
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004740- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
4741 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00004742
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004743- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
4744 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00004745
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00004746- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004747 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00004748 Textbox.gather().
4749
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00004750- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
4751 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00004752 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
4753 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00004754
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00004755- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
4756 that array types do not live longer than needed.
4757
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00004758- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
4759 and when creating a recursive instance.
4760
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004761- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
4762 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
4763 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00004764
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00004765- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
4766 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
4767 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
4768
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004769- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
4770 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00004771
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004772- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00004773 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
4774
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004775- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00004776 good for long regular expression matches.
4777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004778- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
4779 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00004780
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00004781- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
4782 the current context.
4783
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00004784- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
4785 zipfile module.
4786
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00004787- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
4788
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004789- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
4790 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00004791
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00004792- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
4793
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00004794- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
4795
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004796- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
4797 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00004798
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00004799- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
4800
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004801- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
4802 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00004803
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004804- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
4805 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00004806
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00004807- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
4808
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00004809- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
4810 Tcl objects.
4811
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00004812- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
4813
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004814- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
4815 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
4816 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
4817 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00004818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004819- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
4820 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00004821
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004822- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
4823 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00004824
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004825- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
4826 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00004827
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004828- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
4829 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00004830
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00004831- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
4832 method used universal newlines.
4833
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00004834- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
4835 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
4836
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00004837- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
4838 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
4839
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00004840- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
4841 files are updated.
4842
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004843- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
4844 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00004845
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00004846- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
4847 configured with --with-system-ffi.
4848
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00004849- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00004850 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00004851
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00004852- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
4853
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004854- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
4855 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
4856 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00004857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004858- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
4859 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00004860
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00004861- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00004862
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00004863- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
4864
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004865- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
4866 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00004867
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00004868- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
4869 to be orderable to properly represent them.
4870
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00004871- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
4872
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00004873- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
4874
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004875- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
4876 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
4877 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00004878
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00004879- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
4880 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
4881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004882- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
4883 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00004884
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004885- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
4886 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00004887
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00004888- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
4889
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00004890- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
4891
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00004892- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
4893 syllables.
4894
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004895- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
4896 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00004897
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00004898- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
4899
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00004900- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
4901 represent the result in a single character.
4902
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00004903- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
4904
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00004905- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
4906
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00004907- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
4908 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
4909 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
4910
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00004911- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4912
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004913- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
4914 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00004915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004916- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
4917 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
4918 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00004919
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004920- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
4921 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
4922 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00004923
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00004924- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004925 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
4926 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00004927
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004928- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
4929 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00004930
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004931- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
4932 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00004933
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00004934- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4935
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00004936- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4937
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004938- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
4939 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
4940 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00004941
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00004942- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4943
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00004944- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4945
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00004946- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
4947 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
4948
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00004949- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
4950
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00004951- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
4952
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00004953- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4954
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004955- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
4956 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00004957
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004958- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
4959 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00004960
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00004961- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
4962 the directories).
4963
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00004964- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
4965 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
4966 injecting HTML into the error page.
4967
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004968- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
4969 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00004970
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004971- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
4972 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004973
4974- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
4975
4976- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
4977
4978- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
4979 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
4980 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
4981
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00004982- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
4983 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
4984 ".cpp" too.
4985
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00004986- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004987 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
4988 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
4989 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00004990
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004991- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
4992 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00004993
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004994- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
4995 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00004996
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00004997- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
4998 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
4999 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
5000 closes patch #723312.
5001
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005002- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
5003 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00005004 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00005005
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00005006- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
5007
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00005008- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
5009 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
5010
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00005011- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
5012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005013- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
5014 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00005015 directories.
5016
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00005017- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
5018 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
5019 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
5020 trying Mozilla variants.
5021
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00005022- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
5023
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00005024- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
5025 initialization failed.
5026
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00005027- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005028 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
5029 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00005030
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005031- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
5032 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
5033 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00005034
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005035- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
5036 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00005037 correctly now.
5038
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00005039- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
5040
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005041- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
5042 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00005043
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00005044- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
5045
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005046- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
5047 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
5048 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00005049
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005050- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
5051 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
5052 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
5053 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00005054
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005055- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
5056 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
5057 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00005058
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00005059- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
5060 whitespace while wrapping.
5061
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00005062- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005063 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
5064 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00005065
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005066- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
5067 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
5068 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00005069
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00005070- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
5071 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
5072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005073- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
5074 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00005075
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00005076- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
5077 concatenation in robotparser.
5078
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00005079- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005080 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
5081 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00005082
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00005083- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
5084 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
5085
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00005086- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
5087
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005088- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
5089 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
5090 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00005091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005092- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
5093 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
5094 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00005095
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005096- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
5097 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00005098 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00005099
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00005100- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
5101 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
5102
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00005103- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
5104 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
5105
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00005106- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
5107 returned string up to the first NUL character.
5108
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00005109- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
5110
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00005111- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
5112
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005113- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
5114 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
5115 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00005116
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00005117- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
5118
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005119- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
5120 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
5121 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
5122 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
5123 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
5124 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00005125
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005126- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
5127 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00005128
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00005129- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
5130 comprehensive test suite for the module.
5131
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00005132- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
5133 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
5134
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005135- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
5136 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
5137 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00005138
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005139- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00005140 in HTMLParser.
5141
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00005142- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
5143 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
5144
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00005145- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
5146
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00005147- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
5148
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00005149- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
5150
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00005151- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00005152
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00005153- Added itertools.izip_longest().
5154
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005155- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
5156 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00005157
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00005158- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
5159
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00005160- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
5161 doesn't exist.
5162
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00005163- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
5164
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00005165- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
5166
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005167- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00005168
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005169- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
5170 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00005171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005172- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
5173 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00005174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005175- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
5176 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00005177
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00005178- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005179 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00005180
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00005181- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
5182 iso8859_16.
5183
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005184- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
5185 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
5186 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
5187 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00005188
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005189- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
5190
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00005191- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
5192 directories.
5193
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00005194- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
5195
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005196- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
5197 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00005198
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005199- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005200 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005201
5202- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005203 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005204
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005205- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005206
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005207- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
5208 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00005209
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00005210- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
5211
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00005212- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
5213 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
5214 parameterless foreign function calls work.
5215
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00005216- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
5217
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00005218- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
5219 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
5220 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
5221
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00005222- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
5223 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
5224
5225- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
5226 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
5227
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005228- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
5229 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
5230 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00005231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005232- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
5233 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00005234
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00005235- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
5236
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005237- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
5238 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00005239
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005240- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
5241 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00005242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005243- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
5244 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00005245
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005246- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
5247 separated lists read from logging config files.
5248
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005249- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
5250 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
5251 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005252
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005253- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
5254 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00005255
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00005256- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
5257
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005258- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
5259 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00005260
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00005261- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
5262
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00005263- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
5264
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005265- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
5266 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00005267
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00005268- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
5269 regular files.
5270
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00005271- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
5272
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005273- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
5274 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00005275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005276- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
5277 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00005278
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00005279- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
5280 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
5281
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00005282- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
5283 file name mangling.
5284
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005285- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
5286 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00005287
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00005288- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
5289
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005290- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00005291 HTTPConnection.request().
5292
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00005293- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
5294 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
5295 objects.
5296
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005297- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
5298 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
5299 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00005300
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005301- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
5302 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
5303 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00005304
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005305- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00005306
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005307- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00005308
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00005309- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
5310
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00005311- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005312 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00005313
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00005314- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
5315
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00005316- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
5317 GNU modes.
5318
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00005319- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005320 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00005321 opcode.
5322
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00005323- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
5324 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
5325 statement (bug #1586513).
5326
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00005327- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
5328 correctly.
5329
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00005330- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
5331
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005332- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
5333 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00005334
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00005335- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
5336 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
5337 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
5338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005339- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
5340 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
5341 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00005342
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005343- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
5344 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00005345
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00005346- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
5347
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00005348- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
5349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005350- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
5351 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00005352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005353- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
5354 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00005355
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00005356- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
5357 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
5358
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00005359- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
5360 with a slash.
5361
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00005362- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
5363 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
5364
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00005365- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005366 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00005367
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00005368- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
5369 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
5370 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
5371
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005372- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
5373 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00005374
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005375- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
5376 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00005377
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005378- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
5379 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00005380
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00005381- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
5382
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005383- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00005384 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005385
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005386- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
5387 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00005388
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005389- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
5390 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005391
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00005392- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
5393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005394- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
5395 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00005396
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005397- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
5398 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
5399 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00005400
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005401- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
5402 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
5403 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00005404
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005405- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
5406 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
5407 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
5408 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00005409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005410- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00005411 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
5412 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005413 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
5414 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
5415 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00005416
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005417- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
5418 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00005419
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005420Extension Modules
5421-----------------
5422
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00005423- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00005424
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00005425- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
5426
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00005427- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
5428
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00005429- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00005430
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005431- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
5432 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00005433
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005434- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
5435 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00005436
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005437- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
5438 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00005439
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00005440- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
5441
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00005442- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
5443
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005444- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
5445 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00005446
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00005447- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
5448
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005449- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
5450 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00005451
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00005452- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
5453
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005454- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
5455 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00005456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005457- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00005458 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
5459 parameter.
5460
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005461- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
5462 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
5463 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
5464 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00005465
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005466- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
5467 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00005468
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005469- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
5470 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00005471
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005472- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
5473 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
5474 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00005475
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005476- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
5477 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00005478
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00005479- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
5480
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00005481- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
5482
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005483- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
5484 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
5485 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00005486
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005487- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
5488 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00005489
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00005490- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
5491
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00005492- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
5493
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005494- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
5495 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
5496 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
5497 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00005498
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00005499- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
5500 get_completion_type to readline.
5501
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00005502- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
5503 structure.
5504
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00005505- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
5506
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00005507- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
5508
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00005509- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
5510 intended for RECNO databases.
5511
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00005512- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005513 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
5514 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
5515 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
5516 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
5517 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
5518 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00005519
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00005520- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
5521
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00005522- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
5523
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005524- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
5525 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
5526 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
5527 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
5528 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00005529
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00005530- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
5531 error in spite of a succesful compression.
5532
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00005533- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
5534 of Py_ssize_t.
5535
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00005536- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
5537 fractional times. With unittest.
5538
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005539- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
5540 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
5541 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00005542
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00005543- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
5544
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00005545- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
5546
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00005547- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
5548
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00005549- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
5550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005551- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005552 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00005553
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005554- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
5555 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00005556
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005557- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
5558 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00005559
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00005560- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
5561 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
5562
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005563- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
5564 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
5565 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00005566
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00005567- Speed up function calls into the math module.
5568
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00005569- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
5570 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
5571 does.
5572
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00005573- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
5574
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00005575- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
5576
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00005577- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
5578
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00005579- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
5580
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00005581- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
5582 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
5583
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00005584- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
5585 datetime's strftime function.
5586
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00005587- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
5588
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00005589- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
5590
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005591- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
5592 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00005593
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00005594- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
5595
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00005596- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005597 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
5598 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00005599
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005600- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
5601 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00005602
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00005603- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005604 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
5605 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00005606 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
5607 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00005608 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00005609 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005610
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00005611- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
5612 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
5613 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
5614 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
5615
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00005616- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
5617 were transposed.
5618
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00005619- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
5620 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00005621
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005622- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
5623 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
5624 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00005625
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00005626- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
5627
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00005628- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
5629
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00005630- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
5631
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00005632- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00005633
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00005634- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
5635 databases without a DBEnv.
5636
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00005637- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
5638
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005639Tests
5640-----
5641
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00005642- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00005643
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005644- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
5645 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00005646
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005647- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
5648 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
5649 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00005650
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00005651- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
5652 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00005653
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005654- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
5655 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00005656
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005657- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
5658 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
5659 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00005660
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00005661- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
5662
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005663- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
5664 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
5665 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00005666
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00005667- Added some tests for modulefinder.
5668
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00005669- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
5670
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00005671- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
5672 number properly.
5673
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005674- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
5675 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005676
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005677Tools
5678-----
5679
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005680- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
5681 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
5682 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
5683 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00005684
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005685- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
5686 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
5687 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00005688
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00005689- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
5690 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
5691
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005692- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
5693 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005695- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
5696 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005697
5698- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005699 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
5700 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005701
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005702
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005703Documentation
5704-------------
5705
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00005706- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
5707 include new optional delay argument.
5708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005709- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
5710 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
5711 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005712
5713- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
5714 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
5715
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00005716- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
5717 Python tutorial.
5718
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00005719- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
5720
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005721- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
5722 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00005723
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00005724- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
5725 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
5726
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00005727- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
5728 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
5729
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00005730- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
5731
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00005732- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
5733 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
5734
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005735- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00005736 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
5737
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00005738- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
5739 docs.
5740
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00005741- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
5742
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00005743- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
5744 string pointed to by its parameter.
5745
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00005746- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
5747
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00005748- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005749 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
5750 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
5751 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00005752
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005753
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00005754Tools/Demos
5755-----------
5756
5757- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00005758
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00005759- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005760 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
5761 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00005762
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00005763- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
5764 file not to get reported properly.
5765
5766
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005767Build
5768-----
5769
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005770- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
5771 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
5772 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00005773
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00005774- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
5775 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
5776
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00005777- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
5778
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005779- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005780
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005781- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
5782 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
5783 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
5784 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005785
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005786- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
5787 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005788
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00005789- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
5790
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00005791- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
5792 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
5793 without this option!
5794
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00005795- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
5796
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00005797- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005798 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
5799 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
5800 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00005801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005802- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
5803 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00005804
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00005805- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
5806
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00005807- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
5808
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005809- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
5810 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00005811
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005812- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
5813 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00005814
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00005815- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
5816 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
5817 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
5818
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00005819- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
5820 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
5821
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00005822- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
5823
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00005824- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
5825
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005826- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
5827 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00005828
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005829- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00005830 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
5831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005832- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
5833 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00005834
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00005835- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
5836
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005837- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00005838
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00005839- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
5840
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00005841- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
5842
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00005843- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005844
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005845- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
5846 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
5847 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00005848
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005849
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005850C API
5851-----
5852
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005853- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
5854 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
5855 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
5856 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00005857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005858- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
5859 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
5860 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00005861
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005862- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00005863
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005864- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
5865 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
5866 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005867
5868- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
5869
5870- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
5871 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
5872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005873- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
5874 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
5875 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
5876 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005877
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005878- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
5879 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005880
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005881- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
5882 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
5883 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005884
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005885- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
5886 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005887
5888- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
5889
5890- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
5891
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005892- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
5893
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005894- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
5895
5896- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
5897 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
5898
5899- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
5900 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
5901
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005902- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
5903 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
5904 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005905
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005906- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
5907 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005908
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005909- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
5910 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00005911
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005912
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00005913Windows
5914-------
5915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005916- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
5917 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
5918 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
5919 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00005920
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005921- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
5922 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00005923
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00005924- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
5925
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00005926
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005927Mac
5928---
5929
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00005930- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
5931
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00005932- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
5933
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005934- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
5935 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
5936 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00005937
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00005938----
5939
5940**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**