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Barry Warsaw6b257f42008-12-05 05:03:06 +00007What's New in Python 2.6.2
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9
10*Release date: XX-XXX-200X*
11
12Core and Builtins
13-----------------
14
Raymond Hettinger9293eb92009-02-24 12:25:32 +000015- xrange() is now registered as a Sequence.
16
Benjamin Peterson53f098c2009-03-18 21:49:29 +000017- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
18 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
19
Eric Smith1718b472009-02-20 14:07:55 +000020- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
21 used when using str.format() with str, unicode, long, int, and
22 float arguments.
23
Raymond Hettinger32596522009-02-18 23:12:48 +000024- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division
25 for ints and longs.
26
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +000027- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
28 parameter was set.
29
Raymond Hettinger24e28722009-02-02 22:44:06 +000030- Issue 1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
31 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
32 zip(), and bytearray().
33
Antoine Pitroua1b22ce2009-01-13 23:25:47 +000034- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
35 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
36 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
37
Georg Brandl686d53e2009-01-14 00:08:09 +000038- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
39
Antoine Pitrou5b0767c2009-01-06 19:00:59 +000040- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
41 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
42 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
43 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
44 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
45
Georg Brandl734373c2009-01-03 21:55:17 +000046- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
47
48- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
49 file with `str' filename on Windows.
50
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +000051- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
52 did not get collected.
53
Nick Coghland4656402008-12-30 01:36:00 +000054- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
55 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
56
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +000057- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
58 directory on POSIX systems.
59
60- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
61 systems.
62
63- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
64 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
65
Georg Brandlef29f862008-12-28 11:55:24 +000066- Issue #4759: fix a segfault for bytearray.translate(x, None).
67
Skip Montanaro6a00c742008-12-23 03:35:04 +000068- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
69 fail.
70
Jeffrey Yasskin69614982008-12-11 05:21:18 +000071- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
72 exceptions.
73
Benjamin Petersonc6e80eb2008-12-21 17:01:26 +000074- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
75 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
76 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
77
Jeffrey Yasskin69614982008-12-11 05:21:18 +000078- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc79c9f762008-12-10 23:56:33 +000079 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
80
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +000081- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
Georg Brandld2094602008-12-05 08:51:30 +000082 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
83 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
84 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
85
Georg Brandlfa71a902008-12-05 09:08:28 +000086- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__
87 instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
88
Antoine Pitrou599db7f2008-12-07 00:07:51 +000089- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
90 which there are buffer exports.
91
Barry Warsaw6b257f42008-12-05 05:03:06 +000092Library
93-------
94
Mark Dickinson71416822009-03-17 18:07:41 +000095- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
96 '>' alignment characters.
97
Antoine Pitroua099d142009-03-14 00:13:36 +000098- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
99 character.
100
Guilherme Poloc4f54fd2009-03-07 01:51:48 +0000101- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
102 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
103 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
104
105- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
106
Hirokazu Yamamotoec5294f2009-03-05 14:30:13 +0000107- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
108
Hirokazu Yamamoto857c00e2009-03-03 22:55:00 +0000109- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
110
Benjamin Petersona97bed92009-03-02 22:46:11 +0000111- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
112 ready received.
113
Benjamin Petersone392b4f2009-03-02 03:42:39 +0000114- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
115 import guess_extension`` was used.
116
Hirokazu Yamamoto4b27e962009-02-28 12:42:16 +0000117- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
118 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
119
Hirokazu Yamamotoe363fa02009-02-28 11:39:45 +0000120- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
121 overrun.
122
Hirokazu Yamamoto978bacd2009-02-18 15:11:55 +0000123- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
124
125- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
126 The file was resized to wrong size.
127
Vinay Sajip83470422009-02-17 17:47:15 +0000128- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call in logging to
129 help out IronPython.
130
Tarek Ziadé19fe0c82009-02-13 23:02:44 +0000131- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
132 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
133
Mark Dickinsona84f2652009-02-12 18:05:07 +0000134- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
135 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
136 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
137
Thomas Heller07750562009-02-10 18:46:11 +0000138- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
139 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
140
Tarek Ziadé436eb082009-02-10 12:33:42 +0000141- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
142 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
143
Guilherme Polo4bf471f2009-02-09 16:43:02 +0000144- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
145
Vinay Sajip9c786582009-02-08 19:14:41 +0000146- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case.
147 This is a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
148
Guilherme Poloc8a20da2009-02-06 22:52:31 +0000149- Partial fix to issue #1731706: memory leak in Tkapp_Call when calling
150 from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl interpreter.
151 Patch by Robert Hancock.
152
Vinay Sajip9c786582009-02-08 19:14:41 +0000153- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadéf28849a2009-02-05 22:55:00 +0000154 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
155
Guilherme Polob2dbd432009-02-02 21:15:41 +0000156- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
157
Antoine Pitrou4ad77e22009-01-29 20:30:51 +0000158- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
159 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
160 "src.new").
161
Raymond Hettingerc9794482009-01-28 23:14:58 +0000162- Issue 4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for
163 Iterator and MutableSet.
164
Raymond Hettinger8c0cee82009-01-27 10:30:26 +0000165- Issue 5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
166 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
167
Martin v. Löwise8b471c2009-01-24 15:50:00 +0000168- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
169 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
170
Martin v. Löwis3a8071a2009-01-24 14:04:33 +0000171- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
172 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
173
Antoine Pitrou19fec8b2009-01-21 00:56:37 +0000174- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
175 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
176 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
177 traditional 2.x file object.
178
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0293c802009-01-17 16:46:35 +0000179- Issue #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
180 opened with other applications.
181
Raymond Hettinger825758c2009-01-08 05:20:19 +0000182- Issue 4816: itertools.combinations() and itertools.product were raising
183 a ValueError for values of *r* larger than the input iterable. They now
184 correctly return an empty iterator.
185
Raymond Hettinger8f726922009-01-03 09:27:41 +0000186- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
Raymond Hettinger40188782009-01-03 09:24:18 +0000187 cast as floats.
188
Raymond Hettingerd263bd82008-12-31 04:18:44 +0000189- Issue 4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
190 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
191
Martin v. Löwis918ae522008-12-29 16:23:43 +0000192- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
193
Martin v. Löwis659bf292008-12-29 15:53:25 +0000194- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
195
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc360d8cf2008-12-15 22:16:00 +0000196- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
197 handling.
198
Antoine Pitrouf8638a82008-12-14 18:08:37 +0000199- Issue #4574: fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
200 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16)
201 and gets split on a chunk boundary.
202
Nick Coghlan30327242008-12-14 11:30:16 +0000203- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
204 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
205 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
206
207- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
208 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
209 Alexander Belopolsky.
210
211- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
212 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
213 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
214 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
215 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
216 Alexander Belopolsky.
217
218- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
219 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
220 Alexander Belopolsky.
221
Lars Gustäbel696d6ba2008-12-12 14:14:42 +0000222- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
223
Skip Montanarob7387a52008-12-06 17:39:54 +0000224- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
225 libs.
226
Georg Brandlfa71a902008-12-05 09:08:28 +0000227- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
228
Matthias Klosee1e6ed12009-01-10 17:11:11 +0000229- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
230 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
231
Martin v. Löwis3f15ae32008-12-29 18:20:48 +0000232Extension Modules
233-----------------
234
235- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
236
Matthias Klose54fba822009-02-24 11:07:44 +0000237Build
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239
240- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
241
Barry Warsaw6b257f42008-12-05 05:03:06 +0000242
Barry Warsaw3d407dc2008-12-04 02:59:51 +0000243What's New in Python 2.6.1
244==========================
Barry Warsawa5a38c52008-10-02 03:08:34 +0000245
Barry Warsaw3d407dc2008-12-04 02:59:51 +0000246*Release date: 04-Dec-2008*
Barry Warsawa5a38c52008-10-02 03:08:34 +0000247
248Core and Builtins
249-----------------
250
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b458c2008-11-22 20:06:51 +0000251- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
252 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
253 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
254
Benjamin Peterson71ce9e72008-11-21 22:52:21 +0000255- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
256 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
257
Benjamin Peterson866eba92008-11-19 22:05:53 +0000258- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
259 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
260
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc83be3d22008-11-18 22:27:00 +0000261- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the imageop.rgb2rgb8() function.
262
Benjamin Peterson9adae2e2008-11-17 22:44:30 +0000263- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
264
Benjamin Petersoneeed0c72008-11-03 15:18:30 +0000265- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
266
Benjamin Peterson084ce7a2008-10-31 02:26:20 +0000267- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
268 exec statement.
269
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc353ea72008-10-30 21:29:12 +0000270- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
271 method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
272
Benjamin Petersonb74777e2008-10-26 20:59:05 +0000273- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
274 __future__ import didn't work.
275
Hirokazu Yamamoto2c66b7c2008-10-09 18:06:58 +0000276- On windows, os.chdir given unicode was not working if GetCurrentDirectoryW
277 returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful this code path is
278 really executed because I cannot move to such directory on win2k)
279
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc00c94ed2008-10-07 20:40:09 +0000280- Issue #4069: When set.remove(element) is used with a set element, the element
281 is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the eventual
282 KeyError would always report the empty frozenset([]) as the missing key. Now
283 it correctly refers to the initial element.
284
Christian Heimes4d8a6f42008-10-02 19:49:47 +0000285- Fixed C99 style comments in several files. Python is now C89 compatible
Christian Heimesc7f315a2008-10-02 18:39:50 +0000286 again.
287
Barry Warsawa5a38c52008-10-02 03:08:34 +0000288Library
289-------
290
Tarek Ziadéf66326f2009-01-26 17:20:15 +0000291- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
292 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
293
Raymond Hettinger1f4f0812009-02-03 03:44:39 +0000294- Registered Decimal as a numbers.Number so that isinstance(d, Number) works.
Raymond Hettinger45fd4762009-02-03 03:42:07 +0000295
Mark Dickinson3df16922009-01-24 21:30:14 +0000296- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
297 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
298
Mark Dickinsonc95c6f12009-01-04 21:30:17 +0000299- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
300
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +0000301- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé653cb622009-01-04 00:07:14 +0000302 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
303
Mark Dickinsonfd6032d2009-01-02 23:16:51 +0000304- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
305 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
306
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +0000307- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
308 the function is not a generator.
309
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +0000310- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
311 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadée4ea6bc2008-12-30 23:06:46 +0000312
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +0000313 - Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
314 works as expected in the interactive environment.
315
316- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
317 Gabriel Genellina.
318
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +0000319- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé0edab542008-12-29 22:36:22 +0000320 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
321
Tarek Ziadéba486082008-12-27 13:28:42 +0000322- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
323
Benjamin Peterson828a7062008-12-27 17:05:29 +0000324- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
325
326- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
327 handling.
328
Benjamin Petersonc6e80eb2008-12-21 17:01:26 +0000329- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
330 when given an unicode string.
331
332- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
333
Mark Dickinson7c62f892008-12-11 09:17:40 +0000334- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
335 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
336 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
337
Benjamin Petersonc6e80eb2008-12-21 17:01:26 +0000338- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the
339 --dry-run option.
340
341- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
342 libs.
343
Georg Brandlf3a0b862008-12-07 14:47:12 +0000344- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
345 statements.
346
347- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
348 not a malformed option.
349
350- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
351 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
352
Fred Drake0c7dfa32008-12-04 19:01:28 +0000353- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
354 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
355 Content-Disposition headers.
356
Christian Heimes268be912008-11-28 11:03:48 +0000357- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
358 exception.
359
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc42491ce2008-11-21 22:08:14 +0000360- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if
361 the ctypes module is not present.
362
Martin v. Löwisfc1e0ef2008-11-19 09:11:49 +0000363- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
364
Hirokazu Yamamotob2d81422008-11-03 18:10:24 +0000365- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
366 and then remove it.
367
Thomas Heller68daeb02008-10-30 20:29:54 +0000368- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
369
Benjamin Petersonaf956f12008-10-22 21:19:41 +0000370- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
371 debugging.
372
Benjamin Peterson3e808612008-10-21 22:28:54 +0000373- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
374 inspect.getargvalues.
375
Georg Brandl4aef7032008-11-07 08:56:27 +0000376- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
377
Martin v. Löwis74013d62008-10-06 15:17:35 +0000378- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
379 to claiming it is Mature.
380
Alexandre Vassalotti966322f2008-12-27 07:16:40 +0000381- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
382 when protocol 0 is used.
383
Georg Brandl734373c2009-01-03 21:55:17 +0000384- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
385
386- Issue #1737832 : plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
387 module.
388
389- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process
390 creates one of the needed subdirectories.
391
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +0000392Tools/Demos
393-----------
394
395- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
396
Brett Cannon7e17a762008-10-06 22:47:18 +0000397Build
398-----
399
Martin v. Löwisa2a21ee2009-02-10 13:17:53 +0000400- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
401
Martin v. Löwis8bcbbb42009-02-02 14:24:18 +0000402- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
403
Georg Brandl686d53e2009-01-14 00:08:09 +0000404- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
405
Georg Brandl734373c2009-01-03 21:55:17 +0000406- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
407
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +0000408- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
409
Martin v. Löwis2b0b0692008-11-30 11:09:53 +0000410- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
411
Martin v. Löwis45a276c2008-11-19 13:54:01 +0000412- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
413
Martin v. Löwis49ae6122008-11-07 18:54:47 +0000414- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
415
Martin v. Löwise55ab5e2008-11-06 17:29:54 +0000416- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
417
Martin v. Löwis3f3ccbe2008-10-17 13:43:58 +0000418- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
419
Martin v. Löwisa6474662008-10-13 11:28:58 +0000420- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
421
Brett Cannon7e17a762008-10-06 22:47:18 +0000422- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
423
Martin v. Löwis7f08c1f2008-11-04 20:43:31 +0000424- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
425
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc38e46fc2008-10-14 22:00:06 +0000426C-API
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428
Benjamin Peterson828a7062008-12-27 17:05:29 +0000429- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
430
Benjamin Petersonc6e80eb2008-12-21 17:01:26 +0000431- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
432 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
433
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc38e46fc2008-10-14 22:00:06 +0000434- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
435 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
436
Benjamin Peterson9e233a52008-11-24 04:19:49 +0000437Extension Modules
438-----------------
439
Mark Dickinson17d83f32009-01-15 15:25:51 +0000440- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
441
Martin v. Löwis8798ac42009-01-11 09:28:08 +0000442- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
443
Georg Brandl734373c2009-01-03 21:55:17 +0000444- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
445
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +0000446- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
447
448- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
449
Mark Dickinson717d5d02008-12-11 21:59:08 +0000450- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
451 OpenBSD.
452
Martin v. Löwis1d8592b2008-12-01 04:49:40 +0000453- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
454
Benjamin Peterson9e233a52008-11-24 04:19:49 +0000455- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
456
Barry Warsawa5a38c52008-10-02 03:08:34 +0000457
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000458What's New in Python 2.6 final
459==============================
460
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +0000461*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000462
463Core and Builtins
464-----------------
465
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +0000466- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
467 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
468
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +0000469- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
470 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
471
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +0000472- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
473
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000474Library
475-------
476
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +0000477- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
478 true singleton object.
479
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +0000480- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
481 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
482 into a float.
483
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +0000484- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
485
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +0000486- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
487 sizes.
488
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +0000489- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
490
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +0000491- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
492 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
493
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +0000494Build
495-----
496
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +0000497- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
498 installer.
499
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +0000500- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
501
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000502
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000503What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
504=============================================
505
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +0000506*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000507
508Core and Builtins
509-----------------
510
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +0000511Extension Modules
512-----------------
513
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +0000514- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
515 segfault as a result.
516
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +0000517- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
518 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000519
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +0000520Tools/Demos
521-----------
522
523- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Misc/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
524 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
525 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
526 are caught and silenced.
527
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +0000528Build
529-----
530
531- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
532 C runtime in the Windows installer.
533
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000534
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +0000535What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
536=============================================
537
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +0000538*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +0000539
540Core and Builtins
541-----------------
542
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +0000543- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
544
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +0000545- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
546 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
547 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
548 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
549 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
550 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
551 64bit values.
552
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +0000553- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
554 error.
555
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +0000556- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
557 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
558 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
559 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
560
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +0000561- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
562 a unicode argument.
563
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +0000564- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
565
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +0000566- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +0000567 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +0000568 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
569
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +0000570- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +0000571 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
572 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
573 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
574 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
575 type object.
576
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +0000577- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
578
579- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
580
581- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
582
583- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
584
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +0000585- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
586 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
587
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +0000588- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
589 ``__delslice__``.
590
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +0000591- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
592 library targets in the Makefile.
593
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +0000594- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
595 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
596 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
597
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +0000598C-API
599-----
600
601- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
602
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +0000603Library
604-------
605
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +0000606- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
607 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
608
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +0000609- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
610
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +0000611- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
612
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +0000613- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
614 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
615 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
616
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +0000617- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
618
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +0000619- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +0000620 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
621
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +0000622- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
623
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +0000624- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
625
626- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +0000627
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +0000628- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
629 its symbolic link.
630
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +0000631- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
632
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +0000633- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
634 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
635 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
636
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +0000637- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
638 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
639
640- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +0000641
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +0000642- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
643 path to the Python binary.
644
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +0000645- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
646 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
647 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
648 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
649
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +0000650- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
651
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +0000652- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
653
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +0000654- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
655
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +0000656- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
657
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +0000658- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
659 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +0000660
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +0000661- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
662 non-integer floating point number.
663
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +0000664- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +0000665 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
666
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +0000667Extension Modules
668-----------------
669
Benjamin Peterson7fd60682009-03-13 20:48:10 +0000670- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
671 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
672
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +0000673- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
674 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
675 without limit.
676
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +0000677- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
678 exploitation of poor argument checking.
679
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +0000680- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
681
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +0000682- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
683 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
684
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +0000685- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
686 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
687 threads/processes.
688
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +0000689Tests
690-----
691
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +0000692- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
693 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
694 that expected warning messages are being reported.
695
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +0000696- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
697
698- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +0000699
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +0000700Build
701-----
702
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +0000703- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
704
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +0000705- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
706 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
707
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +0000708- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
709
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +0000710- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +0000711 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +0000712
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +0000713
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000714What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
715================================
716
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +0000717*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000718
719Core and Builtins
720-----------------
721
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +0000722- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
723 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
724 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
725 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
726 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
727 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
728 default.
729
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +0000730- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
731 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
732
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +0000733- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
734 value again.
735
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +0000736- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
737 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
738 and introducing s*.
739
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +0000740- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
741 object was stored in the freelist.
742
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +0000743- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
744 ValueError consistently across platforms.
745
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +0000746- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
747 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
748 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
749
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +0000750- Apply security patches from Apple.
751
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +0000752- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
753 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
754
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +0000755- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
756 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
757
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +0000758- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
759 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
760 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
761
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +0000762- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
763 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
764 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
765 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
766 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
767 failed have been fixed.
768
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000769Library
770-------
771
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +0000772- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
773
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +0000774- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
775 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
776
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +0000777- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
778 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
779 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
780
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +0000781- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
782 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
783 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
784 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
785 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
786 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
787
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +0000788- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
789 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
790
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +0000791- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
792
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +0000793- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
794
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +0000795- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
796
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +0000797- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
798 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
799
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +0000800- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occured os.rename()
801 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
802
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +0000803- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
804 in a redirect.
805
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +0000806- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +0000807 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +0000808
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +0000809- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
810 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
811
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +0000812- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
813 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
814 regular expression.
815
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +0000816- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
817 thread-safe.
818
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +0000819- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
820 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
821 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
822
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +0000823- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
824
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +0000825- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
826 menu entries were not deleted.
827
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +0000828- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
829 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
830
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +0000831- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
832 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
833
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +0000834- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
835 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
836 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
837
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +0000838- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
839 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
840 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
841
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +0000842- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
843 the reload() built-in has been removed.
844
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +0000845- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +0000846 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +0000847 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
848 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
849 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
850 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
851 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +0000852
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +0000853- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
854 raised an AttributeError.
855
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +0000856- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +0000857 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
858 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +0000859
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +0000860- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
861 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
862
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +0000863- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
864
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +0000865- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
866 on a closed shelf.
867
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +0000868- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
869
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000870- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
871
872- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
873 invalid arguments.
874
875- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
876 with None arguments.
877
878- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
879 configuration files.
880
881- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
882
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +0000883- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
884 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
885 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
886
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +0000887- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
888 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
889 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
890
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +0000891Build
892-----
893
894- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
895
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +0000896Documentation
897-------------
898
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +0000899- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
900 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
901
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +0000902- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
903 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
904 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
905 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
906
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000907
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +0000908What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
909================================
910
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000911*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
912
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +0000913Core and Builtins
914-----------------
915
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +0000916- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
917 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
918 an integer using operator.index().
919
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +0000920- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
921 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
922
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +0000923- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
924 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
925
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +0000926- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
927 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
928 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
929
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +0000930- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
931 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
932 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
933 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
934 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
935 level.
936
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +0000937- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
938 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
939 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
940 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
941 all imports from that module to fail.
942
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +0000943- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
944 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
945 new-style classes.
946
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +0000947- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
948 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
949 another file in sys.stdout.
950
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +0000951- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
952 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
953 another thread's dictionary.
954
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +0000955- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
956 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
957 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
958 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
959 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
960 10, -1).
961
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +0000962- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
963 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
964 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +0000965
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +0000966- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
967 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
968 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +0000969
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +0000970Library
971-------
972
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +0000973- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
974 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
975 error when they failed.
976
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +0000977- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
978
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +0000979- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
980
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +0000981- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
982
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +0000983- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
984
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +0000985- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
986 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
987
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +0000988- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +0000989
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +0000990- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
991 a valid dlerror() message.
992
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +0000993- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
994 incomplete structure was created.
995
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +0000996- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
997
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +0000998- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
999
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00001000- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00001001
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00001002- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
1003 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00001004 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00001005 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
1006 merged into trunk.
1007
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00001008- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
1009
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00001010- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
1011
1012- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
1013
1014- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
1015 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00001016 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00001017
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00001018- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00001019 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00001020
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00001021- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
1022 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
1023
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00001024- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
1025 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
1026
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00001027- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
1028 interrupted by a signal.
1029
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00001030- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00001031 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
1032 Prevents a deadlock.
1033
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00001034- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
1035 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
1036 default https port (443).
1037
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00001038- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
1039 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
1040 if the new process uses the threading module.
1041
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00001042Tests
1043-----
1044
1045- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
1046 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
1047 have been added to test_warnings.
1048
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00001049Build
1050-----
1051
1052- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
1053
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00001054
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00001055Documentation
1056-------------
1057
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00001058- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00001059 Python 3.0.
1060
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00001061- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
1062
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00001063- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
1064 Python 3.0.
1065
1066- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
1067 Python 3.0.
1068
1069
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001070What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
1071================================
1072
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00001073*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001074
1075Core and Builtins
1076-----------------
1077
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00001078- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
1079 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
1080 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
1081 bus error.
1082
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00001083- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
1084 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
1085
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00001086- Add future_builtins.ascii().
1087
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00001088- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00001089 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00001090
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00001091- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
1092
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00001093- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
1094
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00001095- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
1096
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00001097- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
1098
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001099- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
1100 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
1101 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
1102 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00001103
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00001104- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
1105
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001106- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
1107 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00001108
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001109- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
1110 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00001111
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001112- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
1113 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
1114 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00001115
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00001116- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
1117 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
1118 can't be triggered from Python code.
1119
1120
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001121Extension Modules
1122-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00001123- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001124
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00001125- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
1126
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00001127- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00001128
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00001129- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
1130 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
1131
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00001132- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
1133 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
1134
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00001135- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
1136 weakref.proxy.
1137
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001138- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
1139 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00001140
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00001141- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00001142
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00001143- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00001144 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
1145 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00001146
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001147- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
1148 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
1149 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00001150
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00001151- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
1152 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
1153 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
1154
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001155- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00001156
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00001157- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00001158
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001159Library
1160-------
1161
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00001162- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
1163 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
1164
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00001165- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
1166
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00001167- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
1168 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
1169 sense).
1170
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00001171- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
1172
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00001173- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
1174 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
1175 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
1176 the patch.
1177
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00001178- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
1179 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
1180 the patch).
1181
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00001182- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
1183 os.uname exists.
1184
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00001185- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
1186
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00001187- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
1188
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00001189- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
1190 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
1191 pointer-like object.
1192
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00001193- Added the ast module.
1194
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001195- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00001196
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00001197- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
1198 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
1199
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00001200- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
1201 to errno.
1202
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001203- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00001204
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00001205- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00001206 msilib.Record objects.
1207
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00001208- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
1209 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
1210
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00001211- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
1212 in Python 3.0.
1213
1214- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
1215 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00001216
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00001217- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
1218 False boolean value now.
1219
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00001220- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
1221 transfers.
1222
1223- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
1224 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00001225
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00001226- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
1227 when the TarFile is closed.
1228
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00001229- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
1230 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
1231 an exception.
1232
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00001233- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
1234 otherwise be produced.
1235
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00001236- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
1237 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
1238
1239- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
1240 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
1241
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00001242- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
1243 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
1244 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
1245
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00001246- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
1247
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001248- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00001249 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
1250 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
1251 'm' or 'c'.
1252
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00001253- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1254
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001255- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
1256 removal in Python 3.0.
1257
1258- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1259 3.0.
1260
1261- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1262 3.0.
1263
1264- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1265 3.0.
1266
1267- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00001268 Python 3.0.
1269
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00001270- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
1271 Python 3.0.
1272
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001273- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1274 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00001275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001276- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1277 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00001278
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001279- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1280 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00001281
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001282- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1283 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00001284
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001285- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00001286 Python 3.0.
1287
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001288- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1289 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00001290
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001291- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1292 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00001293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001294- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1295 3.0.
1296
1297- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
1298 removal in Python 3.0.
1299
1300- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1301 3.0.
1302
1303- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1304 3.0.
1305
1306- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
1307 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00001308
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001309- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
1310 removal in Python 3.0.
1311
1312- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00001313 Python 3.0.
1314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001315- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1316 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00001317
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00001318- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
1319 Python 3.0.
1320
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00001321- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
1322 Python 3.0.
1323
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001324- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00001325
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00001326- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1327
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00001328- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1329
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00001330- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
1331
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00001332- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1333
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001334- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
1335 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
1336 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00001337
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001338- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
1339 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00001340
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00001341- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1342
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001343- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
1344 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00001345
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00001346- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1347
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00001348- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1349
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00001350- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1351
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00001352- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1353
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00001354- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1355
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001356- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
1357 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00001358
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00001359- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1360
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00001361- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1362
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00001363- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
1364 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
1365 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
1366 OverflowError.
1367
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00001368- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1369
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001370- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
1371 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00001372
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00001373- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1374
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00001375- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1376
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00001377- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1378
1379- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00001380
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001381- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1382
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00001383- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
1384
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00001385- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
1386
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00001387- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00001388
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001389- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
1390 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00001391
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00001392- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00001393 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
1394 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
1395 of Python.
1396
1397- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
1398 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
1399
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00001400- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
1401 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00001402
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001403Build
1404-----
1405
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00001406- 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 +00001407
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00001408- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
1409
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00001410- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
1411
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00001412- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
1413 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001414 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00001415
1416 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
1417
1418 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
1419
1420 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
1421
1422 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
1423
1424 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
1425
1426 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
1427
1428
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00001429C API
1430-----
1431
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00001432- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
1433
1434- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00001435
1436- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
1437 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
1438 PyString names.
1439
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00001440
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001441What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00001442=================================
1443
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00001444*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00001445
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00001446Core and builtins
1447-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00001448
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00001449- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
1450
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001451- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
1452 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00001453
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001454- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
1455 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00001456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001457- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00001458
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00001459Extension Modules
1460-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001461
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001462- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
1463 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00001464
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00001465- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
1466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001467- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
1468 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00001469
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001470- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
1471 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00001472
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001473- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
1474 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00001475
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001476- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
1477 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
1478 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
1479 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
1480 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
1481 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
1482 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
1483 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00001484
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001485Library
1486-------
1487
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00001488- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1489
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001490- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
1491 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00001492
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00001493- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
1494
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001495- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
1496 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00001497
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00001498- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
1499 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
1500 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
1501
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00001502- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001503 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00001504
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00001505- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00001506 reference to themselves.
1507
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00001508- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
1509 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
1510 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00001511
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00001512- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
1513 1900-01-01.
1514
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00001515- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
1516 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
1517
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00001518- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
1519 now implemented in C for better performance.
1520
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001521- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
1522 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
1523 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00001524
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001525- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00001526 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
1527 build documentation for more information.
1528
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00001529- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
1530 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
1531 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
1532 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
1533
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00001534- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
1535 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
1536 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
1537
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001538- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
1539 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
1540 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
1541 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00001542
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001543Tests
1544-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00001545
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001546- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
1547 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
1548 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
1549 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
1550 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
1551 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
1552 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
1553 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
1554 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
1555 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
1556 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
1557 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
1558 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
1559 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
1560 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
1561 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
1562 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
1563 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
1564 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
1565 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
1566
1567 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
1568 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
1569 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
1570 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
1571 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
1572 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
1573 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
1574 access to the underlying socket used.
1575
1576 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
1577 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
1578 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00001579
1580 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001581 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00001582 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
1583 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
1584
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001585 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
1586 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001587
1588Build
1589-----
1590
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00001591- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
1592
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00001593- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
1594 gcc is used as compiler.
1595
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00001596- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001597 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00001598
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001599C API
1600-----
1601
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001602- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
1603 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
1604 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
1605 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00001606
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00001607- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00001608
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001609
1610What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
1611=================================
1612
1613*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
1614
1615Core and builtins
1616-----------------
1617
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001618- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
1619 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
1620 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00001621
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00001622- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
1623 cannot be executed.
1624
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00001625- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
1626 reference on the outer class name.
1627
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00001628- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001629 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00001630
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001631- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
1632 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00001633
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00001634- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00001635
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00001636- Added backport of bytearray type.
1637
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00001638- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
1639
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00001640- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001641 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
1642 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
1643 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
1644 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
1645 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00001646
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00001647- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
1648
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001649- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
1650 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00001651
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00001652- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00001653
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00001654- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
1655
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001656- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
1657 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00001658
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001659- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
1660 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00001661
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001662- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00001663 exception instances.
1664
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00001665- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001666 doesn't derive from BaseException.
1667
1668- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
1669 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00001670
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00001671- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
1672 memory usage in some circumstances.
1673
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001674- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
1675 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
1676 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00001677
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00001678- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
1679
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001680- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00001681 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
1682 longer passed.
1683
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00001684- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
1685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001686- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
1687 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
1688 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00001689
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001690- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
1691 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00001692
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00001693- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
1694
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00001695Extension Modules
1696-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00001697
1698- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
1699
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00001700Library
1701-------
1702
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001703- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
1704 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001706- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
1707 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
1708 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001709
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001710- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
1711 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001712
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001713- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
1714 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
1715 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00001716
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001717- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
1718 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00001719
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00001720- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
1721
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00001722- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
1723 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
1724 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
1725
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00001726- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
1727
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00001728- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
1729 advertised in the docs.
1730
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001731- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00001732
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001733- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00001734
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001735- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
1736 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00001737
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00001738- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
1739 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
1740
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001741- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
1742 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00001743 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
1744 information as well.
1745
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001746- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
1747 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00001748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001749- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
1750 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00001751
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001752- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
1753 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
1754 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00001755
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00001756- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
1757 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
1758 strftime.
1759
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00001760- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001761 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
1762 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00001763
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00001764- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
1765 correctly under win32
1766
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001767- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00001768
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00001769- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001770 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
1771 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
1772 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00001773
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00001774- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
1775 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
1776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001777- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
1778 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00001779
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001780- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
1781 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
1782 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00001783
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001784- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00001785 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
1786
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00001787- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
1788 from 't' to '?'.
1789
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00001790- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
1791 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001792 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
1793 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
1794 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00001795
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001796- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
1797 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00001798
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00001799Tests
1800-----
1801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001802- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
1803 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00001804
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00001805- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
1806
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00001807- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
1808
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00001809- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
1810
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00001811- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
1812
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001813- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
1814 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00001815
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00001816- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
1817
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00001818- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
1819
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001820- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
1821 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00001822
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00001823- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
1824
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00001825- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
1826
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00001827- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
1828 permission to create files in the root directory.
1829
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00001830Build
1831-----
1832
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00001833- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
1834
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001835- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
1836 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00001837
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00001838- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00001839
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00001840C API
1841-----
1842
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001843- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001844 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
1845
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00001846
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00001847What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
1848=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00001849
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00001850*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001851
1852Core and builtins
1853-----------------
1854
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00001855- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00001856 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00001857
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00001858- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
1859
1860- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00001861
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001862- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00001863 issue 215555 for a discussion.
1864
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00001865- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
1866 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
1867 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
1868 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
1869 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
1870 module is:
1871 from future_builtins import hex, oct
1872
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00001873- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
1874 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
1875 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
1876 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
1877 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
1878 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
1879
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00001880- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
1881 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
1882 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
1883 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
1884 PyObject_Format().
1885
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001886- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
1887 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
1888 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00001889
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001890- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001891 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
1892 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00001893
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001894- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
1895 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00001896
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001897- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
1898 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
1899 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00001900
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001901- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
1902 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
1903 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00001904
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00001905- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
1906 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
1907
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001908- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
1909 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00001910
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001911- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
1912 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00001913 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
1914
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001915- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
1916 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
1917 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00001918
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001919- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
1920 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00001921
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001922- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
1923 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00001924
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001925- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
1926 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00001927
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001928- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
1929 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00001930
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001931- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
1932 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
1933 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00001934
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001935- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
1936 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
1937 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
1938 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00001939
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00001940- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
1941 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
1942 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
1943
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00001944- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00001945 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
1946 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
1947
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001948- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00001949 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
1950 support.
1951
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00001952- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
1953 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
1954
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00001955- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
1956
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001957- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00001958 added.
1959
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00001960- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
1961 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
1962
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001963- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
1964 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00001965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001966- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
1967 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
1968 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00001969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001970- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
1971 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00001972
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00001973- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
1974 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00001975
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00001976- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
1977
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001978- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
1979 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
1980 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00001981
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001982- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
1983 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
1984 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00001985
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001986- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00001987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001988- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
1989 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00001990
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00001991- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001992 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
1993 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00001994
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001995- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
1996 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
1997 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
1998 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00001999
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002000- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00002001
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002002- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
2003 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00002004
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002005- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
2006 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00002007
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00002008- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00002009 SystemError.
2010
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00002011- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
2012 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
2013 __package__ attribute.
2014
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002015- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
2016 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
2017 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00002018
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00002019- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
2020
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002021- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00002022 attribute of an empty cell object.
2023
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002024- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
2025 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00002026
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002027- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
2028 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
2029 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
2030 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00002031
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002032- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
2033 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
2034 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00002035
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00002036- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
2037
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00002038- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
2039
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00002040- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
2041
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002042- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
2043 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
2044 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00002045
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002046- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
2047 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
2048 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
2049 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
2050 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
2051 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00002052
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002053- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
2054 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
2055 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
2056 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
2057 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00002058
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002059- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
2060 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
2061 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00002062
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002063- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
2064 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00002065
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00002066- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002067 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
2068 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
2069 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
2070 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
2071 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00002072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002073- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
2074 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00002075
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00002076- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
2077 with %G.
2078
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002079- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
2080 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00002081
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002082- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00002083
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002084- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00002085
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00002086- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002087 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
2088 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00002089
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00002090- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
2091 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
2092
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00002093- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
2094 calls.
2095
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00002096- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002097 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
2098 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00002099
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00002100- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
2101
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002102- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00002103 inherited from a builtin base.
2104
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00002105- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00002106 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
2107
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00002108- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
2109
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00002110- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
2111 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
2112 remaining characters.
2113
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00002114- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
2115 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
2116
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00002117- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
2118
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00002119- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
2120 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
2121 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
2122 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
2123 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00002124 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
2125 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00002126
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002127- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
2128 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
2129 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
2130 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
2131 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00002132
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002133- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
2134 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
2135 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00002136
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002137- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
2138 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00002139
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002140- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
2141 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
2142 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00002143
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002144- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
2145 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00002146
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00002147- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
2148
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00002149- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
2150 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
2151
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00002152- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002153 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
2154 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
2155 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00002156
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00002157- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
2158 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
2159
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002160- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
2161 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00002162
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002163- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
2164 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
2165 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00002166
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00002167- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002168 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
2169 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00002170
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00002171- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
2172 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002173 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
2174 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00002175
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002176- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
2177 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00002178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002179- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
2180 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00002181
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00002182- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
2183 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
2184
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002185- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
2186 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
2187 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00002188
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002189- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
2190 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00002191
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002192- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
2193 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00002194
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002195- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
2196 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
2197 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00002198
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00002199- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
2200 frame's thread state.
2201
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002202- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
2203 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00002204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002205- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
2206 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00002207
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002208- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
2209 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00002210
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002211- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
2212 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00002213
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002214- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
2215 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00002216
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00002217- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
2218
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00002219- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
2220
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00002221- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
2222
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002223- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
2224 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00002225
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002226- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00002227
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00002228- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
2229 again, no longer the posix error code.
2230
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00002231- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
2232 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
2233
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002234- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
2235 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00002236
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00002237- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
2238 embedded in the string to convert.
2239
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00002240- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
2241 recognized and rejected.
2242
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00002243- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
2244
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00002245- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
2246 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
2247 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00002248
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00002249- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
2250 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
2251
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00002252- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002253 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
2254 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00002255
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002256- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
2257 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
2258 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00002259
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00002260- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
2261
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00002262- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
2263
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00002264- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
2265
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002266- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
2267 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
2268 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00002269
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00002270- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
2271 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
2272 'exceptions'.
2273
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00002274- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
2275 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
2276
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00002277- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
2278 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
2279
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00002280- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
2281
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00002282- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
2283
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00002284- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
2285 head is the original string if sep was not found.
2286
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00002287- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002288 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
2289 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
2290 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00002291
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002292- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00002293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002294- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
2295 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00002296
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00002297- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
2298 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00002299
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002300- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00002301 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
2302 it actually exited.
2303
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002304
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00002305Library
2306-------
2307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002308- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00002309
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00002310- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
2311
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00002312- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
2313
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002314- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
2315 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00002316
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002317- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00002318
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002319- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
2320 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
2321 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00002322
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002323- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
2324 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00002325
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002326- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00002327 (ignore-case)
2328
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00002329- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
2330 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
2331 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
2332 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
2333
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002334- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
2335 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00002336
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002337- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
2338 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00002339
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00002340- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
2341 pickled.
2342
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00002343- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
2344 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
2345
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00002346- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
2347 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
2348 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
2349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002350- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
2351 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00002352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002353- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
2354 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
2355 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00002356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002357- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
2358 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00002359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002360- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
2361 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00002362
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002363- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
2364 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
2365 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
2366 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00002367
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002368- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
2369 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00002370 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
2371
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00002372- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
2373
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002374- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
2375 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00002376
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002377- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00002378
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002379- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
2380 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002381
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002382- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
2383 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002385- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
2386 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002387
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002388- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
2389 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002391- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
2392 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
2393 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00002394
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002395- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
2396 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00002397
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002398- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
2399 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00002400
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002401- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
2402 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00002403
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002404- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
2405 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00002406
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002407- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
2408 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00002409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002410- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
2411 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00002412
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00002413- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
2414 with extended local headers.
2415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002416- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
2417 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00002418
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002419- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00002420 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
2421 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
2422
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002423- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
2424 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00002425
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002426- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
2427 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00002428
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002429- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
2430 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00002431
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002432- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
2433 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00002434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002435- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
2436 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00002437
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00002438- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002439 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00002440 Textbox.gather().
2441
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00002442- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
2443 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00002444 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
2445 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00002446
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00002447- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
2448 that array types do not live longer than needed.
2449
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00002450- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
2451 and when creating a recursive instance.
2452
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002453- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
2454 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
2455 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00002456
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00002457- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
2458 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
2459 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
2460
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002461- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
2462 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00002463
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002464- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00002465 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
2466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002467- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00002468 good for long regular expression matches.
2469
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002470- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
2471 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00002472
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00002473- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
2474 the current context.
2475
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00002476- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
2477 zipfile module.
2478
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00002479- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
2480
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002481- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
2482 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00002483
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00002484- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
2485
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00002486- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
2487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002488- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
2489 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00002490
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00002491- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
2492
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002493- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
2494 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00002495
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002496- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
2497 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00002498
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00002499- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
2500
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00002501- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
2502 Tcl objects.
2503
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00002504- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
2505
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002506- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
2507 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
2508 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
2509 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00002510
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002511- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
2512 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00002513
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002514- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
2515 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00002516
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002517- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
2518 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00002519
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002520- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
2521 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00002522
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00002523- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
2524 method used universal newlines.
2525
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00002526- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
2527 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
2528
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00002529- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
2530 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
2531
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00002532- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
2533 files are updated.
2534
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002535- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
2536 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00002537
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00002538- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
2539 configured with --with-system-ffi.
2540
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00002541- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00002542 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00002543
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00002544- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
2545
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002546- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
2547 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
2548 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00002549
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002550- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
2551 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00002552
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00002553- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00002554
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00002555- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
2556
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002557- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
2558 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00002559
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00002560- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
2561 to be orderable to properly represent them.
2562
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00002563- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
2564
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00002565- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
2566
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002567- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
2568 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
2569 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00002570
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00002571- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
2572 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
2573
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002574- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
2575 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00002576
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002577- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
2578 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00002579
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00002580- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
2581
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00002582- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
2583
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00002584- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
2585 syllables.
2586
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002587- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
2588 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00002589
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00002590- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
2591
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00002592- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
2593 represent the result in a single character.
2594
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00002595- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
2596
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00002597- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
2598
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00002599- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
2600 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
2601 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
2602
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00002603- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
2604
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002605- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
2606 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00002607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002608- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
2609 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
2610 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00002611
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002612- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
2613 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
2614 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00002615
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00002616- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002617 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
2618 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00002619
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002620- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
2621 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00002622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002623- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
2624 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00002625
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00002626- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
2627
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00002628- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
2629
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002630- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
2631 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
2632 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00002633
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00002634- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
2635
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00002636- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
2637
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00002638- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
2639 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
2640
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00002641- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
2642
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00002643- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
2644
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00002645- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
2646
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002647- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
2648 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00002649
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002650- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
2651 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00002652
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00002653- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
2654 the directories).
2655
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00002656- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
2657 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
2658 injecting HTML into the error page.
2659
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002660- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
2661 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00002662
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002663- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
2664 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00002665
2666- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
2667
2668- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
2669
2670- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
2671 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
2672 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
2673
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00002674- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
2675 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
2676 ".cpp" too.
2677
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00002678- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002679 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
2680 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
2681 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00002682
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002683- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
2684 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00002685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002686- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
2687 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00002688
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00002689- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
2690 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
2691 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
2692 closes patch #723312.
2693
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00002694- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
2695 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00002696 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00002697
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00002698- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
2699
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00002700- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
2701 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
2702
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00002703- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
2704
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002705- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
2706 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00002707 directories.
2708
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00002709- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
2710 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
2711 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
2712 trying Mozilla variants.
2713
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00002714- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
2715
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00002716- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
2717 initialization failed.
2718
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00002719- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002720 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
2721 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00002722
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002723- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
2724 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
2725 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00002726
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002727- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
2728 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00002729 correctly now.
2730
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00002731- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
2732
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002733- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
2734 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00002735
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00002736- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
2737
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002738- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
2739 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
2740 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00002741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002742- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
2743 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
2744 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
2745 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00002746
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002747- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
2748 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
2749 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00002750
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00002751- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
2752 whitespace while wrapping.
2753
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00002754- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002755 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
2756 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00002757
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002758- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
2759 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
2760 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00002761
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00002762- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
2763 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
2764
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002765- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
2766 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00002767
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00002768- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
2769 concatenation in robotparser.
2770
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00002771- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002772 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
2773 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00002774
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00002775- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
2776 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
2777
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00002778- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
2779
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002780- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
2781 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
2782 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00002783
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002784- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
2785 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
2786 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00002787
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002788- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
2789 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00002790 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00002791
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00002792- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
2793 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
2794
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00002795- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
2796 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
2797
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00002798- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
2799 returned string up to the first NUL character.
2800
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00002801- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
2802
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00002803- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
2804
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002805- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
2806 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
2807 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00002808
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00002809- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
2810
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002811- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
2812 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
2813 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
2814 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
2815 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
2816 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00002817
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002818- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
2819 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00002820
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00002821- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
2822 comprehensive test suite for the module.
2823
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00002824- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
2825 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
2826
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002827- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
2828 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
2829 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00002830
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00002831- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00002832 in HTMLParser.
2833
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00002834- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
2835 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
2836
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00002837- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
2838
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00002839- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
2840
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00002841- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
2842
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00002843- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00002844
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00002845- Added itertools.izip_longest().
2846
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002847- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
2848 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00002849
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00002850- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
2851
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00002852- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
2853 doesn't exist.
2854
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00002855- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
2856
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00002857- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
2858
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002859- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00002860
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002861- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
2862 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00002863
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002864- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
2865 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00002866
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002867- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
2868 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00002869
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00002870- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00002871 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00002872
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00002873- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
2874 iso8859_16.
2875
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002876- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
2877 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
2878 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
2879 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00002880
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00002881- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
2882
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00002883- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
2884 directories.
2885
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00002886- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
2887
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002888- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
2889 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00002890
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002891- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00002892 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002893
2894- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00002895 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002896
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00002897- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002898
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002899- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
2900 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00002901
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00002902- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
2903
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00002904- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
2905 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
2906 parameterless foreign function calls work.
2907
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00002908- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
2909
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00002910- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
2911 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
2912 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
2913
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00002914- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
2915 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
2916
2917- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
2918 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
2919
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002920- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
2921 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
2922 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00002923
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002924- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
2925 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00002926
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00002927- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
2928
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002929- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
2930 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00002931
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002932- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
2933 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00002934
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002935- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
2936 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00002937
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00002938- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
2939 separated lists read from logging config files.
2940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002941- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
2942 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
2943 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00002944
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002945- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
2946 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00002947
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00002948- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
2949
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002950- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
2951 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00002952
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00002953- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
2954
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00002955- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
2956
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002957- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
2958 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00002959
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00002960- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
2961 regular files.
2962
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00002963- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
2964
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002965- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
2966 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00002967
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002968- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
2969 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00002970
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00002971- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
2972 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
2973
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00002974- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
2975 file name mangling.
2976
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002977- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
2978 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00002979
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00002980- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
2981
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00002982- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00002983 HTTPConnection.request().
2984
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00002985- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
2986 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
2987 objects.
2988
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002989- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
2990 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
2991 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00002992
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002993- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
2994 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
2995 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00002996
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00002997- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00002998
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00002999- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00003000
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00003001- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
3002
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00003003- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00003004 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00003005
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00003006- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
3007
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00003008- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
3009 GNU modes.
3010
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00003011- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
3012 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
3013 opcode.
3014
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00003015- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
3016 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
3017 statement (bug #1586513).
3018
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00003019- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
3020 correctly.
3021
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00003022- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
3023
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003024- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
3025 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00003026
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00003027- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
3028 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
3029 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
3030
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003031- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
3032 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
3033 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00003034
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003035- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
3036 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00003037
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00003038- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
3039
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00003040- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
3041
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003042- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
3043 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00003044
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003045- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
3046 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00003047
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00003048- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
3049 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
3050
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00003051- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
3052 with a slash.
3053
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00003054- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
3055 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
3056
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003057- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data data and
3058 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00003059
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00003060- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
3061 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
3062 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
3063
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003064- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
3065 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00003066
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003067- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
3068 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00003069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003070- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
3071 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00003072
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00003073- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
3074
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00003075- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00003076 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00003077
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003078- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
3079 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00003080
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003081- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
3082 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003083
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00003084- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
3085
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003086- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
3087 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00003088
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003089- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
3090 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
3091 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00003092
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003093- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
3094 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
3095 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00003096
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003097- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
3098 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
3099 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
3100 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00003101
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003102- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00003103 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
3104 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003105 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
3106 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
3107 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00003108
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003109- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
3110 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00003111
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003112Extension Modules
3113-----------------
3114
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00003115- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00003116
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00003117- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
3118
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00003119- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
3120
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00003121- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00003122
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003123- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
3124 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00003125
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003126- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
3127 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00003128
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003129- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
3130 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00003131
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00003132- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
3133
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00003134- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
3135
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003136- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
3137 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00003138
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00003139- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
3140
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003141- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
3142 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00003143
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00003144- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
3145
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003146- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
3147 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00003148
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003149- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00003150 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
3151 parameter.
3152
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003153- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
3154 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
3155 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
3156 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00003157
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003158- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
3159 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00003160
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003161- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
3162 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00003163
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003164- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
3165 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
3166 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00003167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003168- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
3169 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00003170
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00003171- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
3172
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00003173- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
3174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003175- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
3176 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
3177 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00003178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003179- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
3180 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00003181
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00003182- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
3183
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00003184- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
3185
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003186- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
3187 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
3188 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
3189 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00003190
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00003191- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
3192 get_completion_type to readline.
3193
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00003194- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
3195 structure.
3196
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00003197- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
3198
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00003199- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
3200
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00003201- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
3202 intended for RECNO databases.
3203
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00003204- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003205 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
3206 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
3207 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
3208 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
3209 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
3210 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00003211
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00003212- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
3213
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00003214- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
3215
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003216- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
3217 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
3218 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
3219 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
3220 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00003221
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00003222- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
3223 error in spite of a succesful compression.
3224
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00003225- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
3226 of Py_ssize_t.
3227
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00003228- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
3229 fractional times. With unittest.
3230
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003231- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
3232 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
3233 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00003234
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00003235- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
3236
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00003237- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
3238
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00003239- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
3240
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00003241- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
3242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003243- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
3244 builtin types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00003245
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003246- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
3247 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00003248
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003249- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
3250 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00003251
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00003252- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
3253 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
3254
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003255- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
3256 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
3257 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00003258
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00003259- Speed up function calls into the math module.
3260
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00003261- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
3262 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
3263 does.
3264
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00003265- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
3266
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00003267- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
3268
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00003269- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
3270
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00003271- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
3272
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00003273- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
3274 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
3275
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00003276- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
3277 datetime's strftime function.
3278
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00003279- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
3280
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00003281- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
3282
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003283- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
3284 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00003285
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00003286- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
3287
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00003288- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003289 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
3290 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00003291
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003292- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
3293 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00003294
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00003295- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003296 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
3297 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00003298 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
3299 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00003300 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00003301 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003302
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00003303- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
3304 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
3305 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
3306 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
3307
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00003308- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
3309 were transposed.
3310
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00003311- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
3312 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00003313
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003314- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
3315 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
3316 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00003317
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00003318- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
3319
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00003320- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
3321
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00003322- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
3323
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00003324- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00003325
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00003326- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
3327 databases without a DBEnv.
3328
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00003329- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
3330
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003331Tests
3332-----
3333
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00003334- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00003335
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003336- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
3337 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00003338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003339- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
3340 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
3341 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00003342
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00003343- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
3344 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00003345
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003346- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
3347 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00003348
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003349- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
3350 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
3351 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00003352
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00003353- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
3354
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003355- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
3356 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
3357 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00003358
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00003359- Added some tests for modulefinder.
3360
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00003361- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
3362
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00003363- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
3364 number properly.
3365
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003366- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
3367 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003368
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003369Tools
3370-----
3371
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003372- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
3373 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
3374 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
3375 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00003376
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003377- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
3378 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
3379 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00003380
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00003381- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
3382 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
3383
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003384- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
3385 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003386
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003387- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
3388 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003389
3390- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003391 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
3392 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003393
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003394
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003395Documentation
3396-------------
3397
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003398- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
3399 include new optional delay argument.
3400
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003401- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
3402 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
3403 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003404
3405- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
3406 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
3407
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00003408- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
3409 Python tutorial.
3410
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00003411- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
3412
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003413- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
3414 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00003415
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00003416- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
3417 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
3418
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00003419- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
3420 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
3421
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00003422- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
3423
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00003424- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
3425 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
3426
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00003427- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
3428 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
3429
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00003430- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
3431 docs.
3432
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00003433- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
3434
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00003435- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
3436 string pointed to by its parameter.
3437
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00003438- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
3439
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00003440- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003441 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
3442 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
3443 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00003444
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003445
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00003446Tools/Demos
3447-----------
3448
3449- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00003450
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00003451- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003452 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
3453 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00003454
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00003455- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
3456 file not to get reported properly.
3457
3458
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003459Build
3460-----
3461
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003462- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
3463 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
3464 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00003465
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00003466- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
3467 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
3468
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00003469- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
3470
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003471- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003472
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003473- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
3474 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
3475 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
3476 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003477
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003478- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
3479 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003480
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00003481- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
3482
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00003483- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
3484 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
3485 without this option!
3486
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00003487- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
3488
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00003489- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003490 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
3491 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
3492 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00003493
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003494- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
3495 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00003496
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00003497- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
3498
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00003499- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
3500
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003501- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
3502 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00003503
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003504- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
3505 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00003506
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00003507- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
3508 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
3509 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
3510
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00003511- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
3512 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
3513
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00003514- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
3515
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00003516- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
3517
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003518- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
3519 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00003520
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00003521- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00003522 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
3523
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003524- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
3525 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00003526
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00003527- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
3528
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003529- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00003530
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00003531- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
3532
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00003533- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
3534
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00003535- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003536
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003537- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
3538 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
3539 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00003540
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003541
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003542C API
3543-----
3544
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003545- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
3546 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
3547 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
3548 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00003549
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003550- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
3551 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
3552 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00003553
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003554- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00003555
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003556- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
3557 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
3558 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003559
3560- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
3561
3562- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
3563 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
3564
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003565- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
3566 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
3567 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
3568 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003570- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
3571 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003572
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003573- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
3574 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
3575 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003576
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003577- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
3578 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003579
3580- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
3581
3582- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
3583
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003584- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
3585
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003586- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
3587
3588- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
3589 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
3590
3591- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
3592 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
3593
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003594- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
3595 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
3596 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003597
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003598- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
3599 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003600
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003601- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
3602 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00003603
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003604
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00003605Windows
3606-------
3607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003608- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
3609 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
3610 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
3611 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00003612
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003613- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
3614 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00003615
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00003616- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
3617
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00003618
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003619Mac
3620---
3621
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00003622- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
3623
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00003624- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
3625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003626- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
3627 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
3628 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00003629
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003630----
3631
3632**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**