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Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00007What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
8================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00009
10*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
11
12Core and Builtins
13-----------------
14
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +000015- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
16
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +000017- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
18 PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable
19 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
20 Charles-François Natali.
21
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +000022- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
23 passed to bytearray.
24
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +000025- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X
26
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +000027Library
28-------
29
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +000030- Issue #7490: to facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
31 suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
Nick Coghlan54677da2010-04-28 14:34:30 +000032 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart
33 Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +000034
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +000035- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline
36 before the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
37
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +000038- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
39
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +000040- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
41 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
42
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +000043- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
44 and mappings.
45
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +000046- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown,
47 where the method could block indefinitely if called just before the
48 event loop started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes
49 witnessed in test_httpservers.
50
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +000051- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
52 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
53
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +000054- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of
55 the SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
56
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +000057- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
58
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +000059- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the
60 underlying socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
61
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +000062- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL
63 socket. Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
64
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +000065- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of
66 the string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional
67 and keywords.
68
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +000069- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has
70 a non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
71 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
72 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
73
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +000074- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing
75 the _ssl extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates
76 doesn't fail because of an "unknown algorithm".
77
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +000078- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
79
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +000080- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
81 from PORT/EPRT commands.
82
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +000083- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
84
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +000085- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding
86 error handler from the new IO library.
87
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +000088- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response
89 code as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
90
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +000091- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
92
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +000093- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
94 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
95
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +000096- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
97 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
98
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +000099- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
100 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally
101 designed to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
102
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +0000103- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
104 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of
105 7bit rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
106
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +0000107- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
108
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +0000109- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module
110 to cover recent locale changes and additions.
111
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +0000112Extension Modules
113-----------------
114
115- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
116
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000117Tests
118-----
119
Victor Stinner6a102812010-04-27 23:55:59 +0000120- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
121 support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +0000122
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000123- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling
124 of SSL shutdowns.
125
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +0000126Build
127-----
128
129- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
130
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000131
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000132What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
133================================
134
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +0000135*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000136
137Core and Builtins
138-----------------
139
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +0000140- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
141
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +0000142- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
143 changed.
144
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +0000145- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
146 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
147 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
148
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +0000149- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
150
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +0000151- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
152
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +0000153- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
154
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +0000155- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__
156 is called with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to
157 future-proof user code. If a derived class does not currently
158 implement __format__ but later adds its own __format__, it would
159 most likely break user code that had supplied a format string. This
160 will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in Python 3.3 and it will be
161 an error in Python 3.4.
162
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +0000163- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
164 references.
165
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +0000166- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, compiler
167 optimizations are disabled when --with-pydebug is used.
168
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +0000169- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +0000170
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +0000171- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
172 arguments to a function correct.
173
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +0000174- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
175
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +0000176- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000177 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
178 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +0000179 module.
180
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +0000181- Code objects now support weak references.
182
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000183Library
184-------
185
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +0000186- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
187
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +0000188- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
189 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO`
190 and `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
191
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +0000192- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
193
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +0000194- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance
195 directly, converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
196
197 >>> Decimal(1.1)
198 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
199
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +0000200- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
201
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +0000202- the functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator
Georg Brandl4fabac52010-04-14 08:53:38 +0000203 to simplify the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +0000204
Raymond Hettingerbb006cf2010-04-04 21:45:01 +0000205- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +0000206 old-style comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
207
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +0000208- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float
209 instances directly.
210
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +0000211- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now
212 signal InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons
Mark Dickinsonf3eeca12010-04-02 10:35:12 +0000213 involving a quiet NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs
214 are now hashable; Decimal signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +0000215
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +0000216- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal
217 instances now return a result based on the numeric values of the
218 operands; previously they returned an arbitrary result based on
219 the relative ordering of id(float) and id(Decimal).
220
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +0000221- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
222 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line
223 is read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original
224 patch by Piotr Ożarowski).
225
226- Issue #3135: Add inspect.getcallargs, which binds arguments to a function
227 like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +0000228
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +0000229- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
230 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
231 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643.
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +0000232 http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
233
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +0000234- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and
235 a Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning
236 True/False. This makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with
237 int <=> complex, float <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
238
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +0000239- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
240
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +0000241- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
242
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +0000243- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
244 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
245
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +0000246- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
247
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +0000248- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
249 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is
250 now silenced.
251
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +0000252- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
253 deprecated.
254
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +0000255- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type
256 when Python is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
257
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +0000258- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor
259 method to LoggerAdapter.
260
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +0000261- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode
262 logger names existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error
263 when configuration code attempted to sort the existing loggers.
264
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +0000265- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not
266 fully loaded when logging occurs.
267
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +0000268- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
269 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
270 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +0000271
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +0000272- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
273
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +0000274- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
275
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +0000276- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support
277 writing into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays
278 or memoryviews.
279
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +0000280- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
281 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
282
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +0000283- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
284
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +0000285- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
286 the locale.
287
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000288- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +0000289 set to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000290 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +0000291
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +0000292- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000293 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an
294 existing log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does
295 not exist, the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +0000296
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000297- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +0000298 cElementTree module is updated too.
299
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +0000300- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
301
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000302- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +0000303 classes.
304
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000305- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
306 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
307 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
308 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +0000309
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +0000310- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
311 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
312
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +0000313- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
314
315- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
316 during test runs.
317
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +0000318- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
319 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
320
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +0000321Extension Modules
322-----------------
323
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +0000324- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
325
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +0000326- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
327
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +0000328- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
329 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4.
330 This update drops support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +0000331
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +0000332- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
333
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +0000334- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
335
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +0000336- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
337 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
338 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
339 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
340
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000341- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
342 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
343 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
344 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour
345 was inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others,
346 and the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native
347 packing and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +0000348
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +0000349- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a
350 bug in the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
351
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +0000352Tools/Demos
353-----------
354
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000355- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
356 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
357 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000358
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +0000359- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
360
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +0000361Build
362-----
363
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +0000364- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build,
365 allowing to use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
366
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +0000367- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment
368 variable anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker
369 when building a shared library.
370
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +0000371- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
372
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +0000373- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
374
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +0000375- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
376 assembly file.
377
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +0000378C-API
379-----
380
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +0000381- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
382 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons,
383 is now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
384
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +0000385- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported
Larry Hastings5ac006d2010-04-02 11:01:35 +0000386 from Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution
387 have been converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility
388 concerns, PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +0000389
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +0000390Tests
391-----
392
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +0000393- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail
394 if any thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
395
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +0000396- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
397
398- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
399
400- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
401
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +0000402- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
403
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +0000404- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
405
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +0000406- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
407 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
408
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +0000409- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
410 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +0000411
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +0000412- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated
413 files from the local cache.
414
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +0000415
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000416What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
417=================================
418
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +0000419*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000420
421Core and Builtins
422-----------------
423
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000424- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
425 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +0000426
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000427- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
428 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +0000429
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +0000430- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000431 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +0000432
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +0000433- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000434 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
435 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +0000436
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000437- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
438 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +0000439
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000440- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +0000441 Parser/myreadline.c.
442
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +0000443- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000444 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +0000445
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000446- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
447 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +0000448
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000449Library
450-------
451
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +0000452- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
453
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000454- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +0000455 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +0000456
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000457- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +0000458 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
459
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000460- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
461 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +0000462
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +0000463- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000464 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +0000465
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +0000466- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +0000467
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000468- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
469 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +0000470
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000471- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +0000472
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000473- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
474 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +0000475
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000476- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
477 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +0000478
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +0000479- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
480
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000481- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
482 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
483 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
484 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +0000485
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000486- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
487 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000488
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +0000489- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
490 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
491 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000492
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +0000493- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +0000494 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +0000495
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000496- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +0000497
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000498- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +0000499
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000500- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +0000501
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000502- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
503 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +0000504
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +0000505- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000506 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +0000507
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000508- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +0000509
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +0000510- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
511
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +0000512Extension Modules
513-----------------
514
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000515- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +0000516 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
517
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +0000518- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
519
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000520- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +0000521 handling.
522
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +0000523- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
524 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000525
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000526- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +0000527 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
528 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
529
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000530- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
531 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +0000532
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000533Tests
534-----
535
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000536- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
537 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
538 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +0000539
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +0000540- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
541 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
542
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000543- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
544 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +0000545
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000546- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +0000547 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +0000548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000549- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +0000550 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
551
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000552- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
553 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
554 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
555 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000556
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +0000557Build
558-----
559
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +0000560- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +0000561
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000562
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000563What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
564=================================
565
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +0000566*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000567
568Core and Builtins
569-----------------
570
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +0000571- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
572 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000573 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
574 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +0000575
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +0000576- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000577 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +0000578
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000579- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
580 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +0000581
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000582- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +0000583
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000584- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
585 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +0000586
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000587- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
588 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
589 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
590 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +0000591
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000592- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
593 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
594 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
595 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +0000596
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +0000597- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
598 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
599 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
600
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000601- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
602 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +0000603
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000604 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
605 strings,
606 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
607 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
608 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
609 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
610
611- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
612 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +0000613
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +0000614- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
615
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +0000616- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
617
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +0000618- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
619
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000620Library
621-------
622
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +0000623- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
624 interpreter shutdown.
625
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000626- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
627 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
628 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
629 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +0000630
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000631- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +0000632
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000633- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +0000634
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000635- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +0000636
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +0000637- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000638 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +0000639 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
640 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
641
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +0000642- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
643
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +0000644- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000645 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
646 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +0000647 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
648
Benjamin Petersone06f7112010-01-28 02:15:02 +0000649- UserDict is now a new-style class.
650
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000651- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
652 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
653 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
654 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
655 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
656 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +0000657
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +0000658- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
659
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000660- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
661 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +0000662
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000663- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
664 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +0000665
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000666- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
667 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
668 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
669 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +0000670
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000671- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +0000672 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
673 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
674
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000675- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +0000676 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
677
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000678- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
679 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +0000680
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000681- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
682 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +0000683
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000684- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
685 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +0000686
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000687- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
688 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +0000689
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +0000690- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000691 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
692 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +0000693
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +0000694Extension Modules
695-----------------
696
697- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
698 (CVE_2009_3560).
699
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +0000700Build
701-----
702
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000703- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
704 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
705 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +0000706
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +0000707- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
708
709- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
710 MacOSX.
711
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +0000712- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
713 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
714
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +0000715Tools/Demos
716-----------
717
718- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000719 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +0000720 sandbox.
721
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +0000722Tests
723-----
724
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000725- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +0000726 instead of a hard coded port.
727
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +0000728Documentation
729-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +0000730
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000731- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
732 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +0000733
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000734- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +0000735 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
736
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000737
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +0000738What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
739=================================
740
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +0000741*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +0000742
743Core and Builtins
744-----------------
745
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000746- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
747 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +0000748
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +0000749- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
750 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
751
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +0000752- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000753 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
754 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
755 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
756 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
757 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +0000758
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +0000759- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
760 AttributeError.
761
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000762- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
763 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +0000764
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000765- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +0000766
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +0000767- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
768 used to drop the time part of the result.
769
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000770- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
771 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
772 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
773 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +0000774
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000775- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
776 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
777 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +0000778
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000779- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +0000780 executables on OSX.
781
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000782 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
783 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
784 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +0000785
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000786- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
787 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +0000788
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +0000789- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
790
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000791- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
792 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +0000793
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +0000794
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +0000795Library
796-------
797
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000798- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
799 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
800 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +0000801
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000802- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
803 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
804 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +0000805
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +0000806- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000807 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
808 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +0000809 Xicluna.
810
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000811- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
812 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +0000813
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000814- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
815 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +0000816
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000817- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
818 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
819 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +0000820
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000821- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +0000822 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
823
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000824- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
825 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +0000826
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000827- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +0000828 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
829
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000830- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
831 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +0000832
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000833- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
834 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +0000835
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000836- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
837 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
838 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +0000839
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000840- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
841 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +0000842
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +0000843- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
844 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
845 the same as passing no argument.
846
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000847- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
848 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +0000849
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000850- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +0000851
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000852- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +0000853
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000854- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
855 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +0000856
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000857- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
858 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +0000859
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000860- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
861 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +0000862
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +0000863C-API
864-----
865
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000866- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
867 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +0000868
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000869- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
870 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
871 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
872 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
873 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
874 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
875 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +0000876
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000877- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +0000878
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +0000879Build
880-----
881
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +0000882- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
883
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +0000884- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000885 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +0000886
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000887- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
888 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
889 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +0000890
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +0000891- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
892 found.
893
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +0000894- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +0000895
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000896- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
897 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +0000898
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +0000899Tests
900-----
901
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000902- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +0000903 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
904
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000905- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +0000906
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +0000907- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
908 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
909
910
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000911What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
912================================
913
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +0000914*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000915
916Core and Builtins
917-----------------
918
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000919- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
920 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +0000921
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000922- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
923 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
924 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +0000925
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000926- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
927 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +0000928
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000929- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
930 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
931 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +0000932
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000933- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +0000934
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000935- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +0000936
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000937- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
938 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +0000939
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000940- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
941 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
942 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
943 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
944 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
945 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +0000946
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000947- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
948 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
949 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
950 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
951 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
952 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
953 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +0000954
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000955 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
956 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
957 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
958 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
959 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
960 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
961 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
962 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
963 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
964 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +0000965
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000966- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
967 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
968 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
969 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
970 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
971 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
972 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
973 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +0000974
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +0000975- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
976
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000977- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
978 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +0000979
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000980- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
981 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +0000982
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000983- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
984 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +0000985
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +0000986- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
987
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000988- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
989 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
990 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +0000991
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000992- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
993 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +0000994
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000995- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
996 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000997
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000998- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
999 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00001000
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001001- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
1002 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
1003 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00001004
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001005- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
1006 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00001007
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00001008- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
1009 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
1010 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
1011 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
1012
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00001013- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
1014 assignment.
1015
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001016- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
1017 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00001018
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001019- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
1020 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00001021
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001022- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
1023 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00001024
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00001025- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00001026 take keyword arguments.
1027
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001028- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
1029 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00001030
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001031- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
1032 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00001033
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00001034- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
1035
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00001036- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
1037 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
1038
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00001039- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
1040
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001041- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00001042
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001043- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00001044 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
1045
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001046- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
1047 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00001048
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001049- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00001050
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001051- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00001052
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001053- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00001054 occurred in the argument chain.
1055
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00001056- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
1057
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001058- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
1059 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00001060
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001061- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00001062 separator and end should be unicode also.
1063
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00001064- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
1065 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00001066
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001067- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
1068 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
1069 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00001070
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00001071- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
1072
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00001073- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
1074 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
1075
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00001076- Removed the ipaddr module.
1077
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00001078- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
1079 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
1080
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001081- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00001082
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00001083- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
1084 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
1085
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00001086- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
1087
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001088- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
1089 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00001090
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00001091- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001092 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00001093
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001094- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
1095 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00001096
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00001097- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001098 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00001099
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00001100- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
1101 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
1102
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001103- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
1104 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
1105 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00001106
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00001107- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
1108
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001109- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
1110 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00001111
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001112- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00001113
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00001114- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00001115
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001116 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
1117 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
1118 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00001119
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001120- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
1121 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
1122 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
1123 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
1124 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
1125 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
1126 complex.__format__ in the same way.
1127
1128- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
1129 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
1130 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00001131
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00001132- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001133 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00001134
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001135- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
1136 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00001137
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001138- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
1139 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00001140
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001141- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
1142 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00001143
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001144- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
1145 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00001146
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00001147- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
1148 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
1149
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00001150- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
1151
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001152- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
1153 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00001154
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001155- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
1156 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001157
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001158- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
1159 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001160
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001161- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
1162 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001163
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001164- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
1165 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00001166
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001167- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00001168 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00001169
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001170- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
1171 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00001172
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00001173- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
1174
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001175- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00001176
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001177- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
1178 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00001179
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001180- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00001181
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00001182- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
1183 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
1184
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00001185- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
1186
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001187- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
1188 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00001189
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00001190- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001191 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
1192 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
1193 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00001194
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001195- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
1196 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
1197 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00001198
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001199- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
1200 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
1201 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
1202 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
1203 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00001204
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00001205- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
1206 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
1207
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001208- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
1209 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
1210 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00001211
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001212- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
1213 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00001214
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001215- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00001216 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
1217
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001218- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
1219 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00001220
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001221- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
1222 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00001223
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001224- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
1225 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00001226
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00001227- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
1228 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
1229
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001230- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
1231 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00001232
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00001233- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
1234
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001235- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00001236 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
1237 zip(), and bytearray().
1238
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00001239- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
1240 functions.
1241
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00001242- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
1243 OSError.
1244
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00001245- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
1246
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001247- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
1248 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
1249 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00001250
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00001251- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
1252 __next__ method.
1253
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00001254- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
1255
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00001256- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
1257
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00001258- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
1259 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
1260 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00001261 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00001262 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
1263
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00001264- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
1265
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001266- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
1267 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
1268 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
1269 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
1270 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00001271
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001272- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00001273
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00001274- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
1275 file with `str' filename on Windows.
1276
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00001277- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
1278 did not get collected.
1279
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001280- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
1281 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00001282
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00001283- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
1284 directory on POSIX systems.
1285
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00001286- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
1287 systems.
1288
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00001289- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001290 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00001291
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00001292- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
1293 fail.
1294
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001295- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
1296 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
1297 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00001298
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00001299- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
1300
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001301- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
1302 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00001303
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001304- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
1305 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00001306
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001307- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00001308
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001309- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
1310 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
1311 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
1312 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00001313
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00001314- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
1315 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
1316 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
1317
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001318- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
1319 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00001320
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00001321- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
1322 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
1323
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001324- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
1325 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
1326 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
1327 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00001328
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00001329- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
1330 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
1331
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001332- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00001333
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00001334- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
1335
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00001336- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
1337
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00001338- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
1339 exec statement.
1340
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001341- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
1342 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00001343
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00001344- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
1345 __future__ import didn't work.
1346
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00001347- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00001348 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00001349
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001350- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
1351 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
1352 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
1353 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00001354
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001355- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
1356 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
1357 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
1358 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00001359
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001360- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
1361 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00001362
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00001363- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
1364
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00001365- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
1366
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00001367- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
1368
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001369- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
1370 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00001371
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00001372- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
1373 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00001374
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00001375- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
1376 returned them on 64bit platforms.
1377
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00001378- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
1379 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
1380 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
1381 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
1382
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00001383- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
1384 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
1385
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001386- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
1387 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
1388 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
1389 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00001390
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001391Library
1392-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00001393
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00001394- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00001395
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00001396- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
1397
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001398- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
1399 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00001400
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001401- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00001402 TLS with authentication credentials.
1403
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001404- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
1405 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00001406
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00001407- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
1408 msvc9compiler.
1409
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001410- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
1411 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
1412 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00001413
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00001414- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
1415 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
1416 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
1417
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001418- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
1419 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00001420
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00001421- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
1422
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00001423- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001424 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00001425 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
1426
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001427- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
1428 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
1429 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00001430
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00001431- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
1432
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001433- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
1434 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00001435
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00001436- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
1437 raises ReadError on empty files.
1438
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001439- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00001440
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00001441- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
1442 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00001443
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001444- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
1445 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00001446
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001447- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
1448 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00001449
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001450- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00001451
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001452- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
1453 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00001454
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001455- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
1456 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00001457
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001458- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
1459 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
1460 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00001461 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
1462 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
1463
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001464- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
1465 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
1466 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00001467
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00001468- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001469 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00001470 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
1471
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001472- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
1473 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
1474 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00001475
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00001476- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
1477 which are part of a reference cycle.
1478
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001479- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
1480 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00001481
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001482- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00001483 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
1484 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
1485
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001486- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
1487 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
1488 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
1489 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00001490
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001491- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
1492 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
1493 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
1494 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00001495
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00001496- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
1497 header as required by RFC 1952.
1498
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00001499- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
1500 Distutils.
1501
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00001502- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
1503 an uppercase.
1504
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001505- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
1506 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00001507
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00001508- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
1509 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
1510
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00001511- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00001512 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
1513
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00001514- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
1515 protocol 2.
1516
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00001517- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
1518
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00001519- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
1520 larger than emax.
1521
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001522- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
1523 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00001524
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00001525- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
1526
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001527- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00001528
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00001529- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
1530
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001531- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00001532
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001533- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00001534
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00001535- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
1536 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001537
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001538- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
1539 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00001540
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001541- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
1542 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00001543
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001544- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00001545 Distutils.
1546
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001547- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00001548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001549- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
1550 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00001551
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001552- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
1553 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00001554
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00001555- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
1556
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00001557- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
1558
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001559- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
1560 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00001561
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001562- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
1563 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00001564
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001565- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
1566 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00001567
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00001568- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
1569
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00001570- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
1571
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00001572- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001573 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
1574 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00001575
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001576- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00001577
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001578- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
1579 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
1580 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00001581
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001582- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
1583 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00001584
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001585- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00001586
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001587- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
1588 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
1589 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
1590 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00001591
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00001592- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
1593 as documented.
1594
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00001595- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
1596 names in the webbrowser module.
1597
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00001598- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
1599
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00001600- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
1601 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
1602
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00001603- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
1604
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00001605- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
1606
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00001607- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
1608
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00001609- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
1610
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00001611- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
1612
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00001613- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
1614 ScrolledText.
1615
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00001616- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
1617
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001618- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
1619 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00001620
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00001621- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
1622 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
1623 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
1624 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
1625
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00001626- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
1627 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
1628
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00001629- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001630 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
1631 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00001632
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001633- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
1634 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
1635 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00001636
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00001637- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
1638 opening an empty or very small file.
1639
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00001640- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
1641 containing incomplete data.
1642
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001643- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
1644 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00001645
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00001646- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
1647
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001648- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
1649 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
1650 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00001651
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00001652- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00001653
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001654- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
1655 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
1656 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
1657 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00001658
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001659- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00001660
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001661- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
1662
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00001663- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
1664 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
1665
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001666- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00001667
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001668- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00001669 attribute.
1670
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00001671- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
1672
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00001673- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
1674 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
1675
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00001676- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
1677
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001678- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00001679 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001680 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00001681
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001682- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00001683 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
1684
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00001685- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
1686
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001687- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
1688 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00001689 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
1690
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001691- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00001692 argument.
1693
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001694- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
1695 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00001696
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001697- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00001698
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00001699- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
1700
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00001701- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
1702
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00001703- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
1704 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
1705
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001706- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
1707 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00001708
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00001709- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
1710 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
1711 ``io`` module.
1712
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00001713- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
1714
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00001715- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001716 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
1717
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00001718- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
1719
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001720- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
1721 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
1722 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00001723
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00001724- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
1725
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001726- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
1727 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00001728
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00001729- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
1730
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00001731- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
1732 whitespace.
1733
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001734- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
1735 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00001736
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00001737- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
1738 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
1739
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001740- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
1741 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00001742
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001743- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
1744 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00001745
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00001746- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
1747 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
1748 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
1749
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00001750- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
1751 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001752
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001753- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
1754 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
1755 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00001756
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00001757- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
1758 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
1759
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001760- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00001761 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
1762
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001763- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00001764
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001765- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
1766 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00001767
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001768- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00001769 subcommand.
1770
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00001771- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
1772 deepcopy()ing.
1773
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001774- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00001775
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00001776- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
1777
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001778- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00001779
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001780- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00001781 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
1782
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00001783- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
1784 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
1785
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00001786- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001787 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00001788
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001789- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
1790 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00001791
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00001792- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
1793 trying to print a traceback.
1794
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00001795- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
1796
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001797- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
1798 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00001799
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001800- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
1801 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
1802 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00001803 Cournapeau.
1804
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001805- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
1806 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00001807
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001808- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
1809 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00001810
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00001811- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
1812
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00001813- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
1814 looking for files given by a relative filename.
1815
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001816- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00001817 extracting a file to the root directory.
1818
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001819- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00001820
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001821- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
1822 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
1823 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00001824
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00001825- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
1826 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
1827
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00001828- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
1829 Contributed by Google.
1830
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00001831- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
1832
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001833- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00001834
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00001835- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
1836
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001837- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
1838 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00001839 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
1840
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001841- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00001842 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
1843 initialized before.
1844
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00001845- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
1846 names which should not be exported.
1847
1848- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001849 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00001850
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00001851- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
1852
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001853- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
1854 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00001855
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00001856- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
1857
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00001858- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001859 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00001860
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001861- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
1862 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
1863 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00001864
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00001865- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
1866
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001867- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
1868
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001869- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
1870 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
1871 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
1872 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
1873 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00001874
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001875- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00001876
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001877- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
1878 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00001879
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001880- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00001881
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001882- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001883 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00001884
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001885- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
1886 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00001887
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001888- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
1889 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00001890
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001891- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
1892 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00001893
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001894- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
1895 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00001896
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001897- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00001898
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001899- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00001900
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001901- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00001902
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001903- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00001904
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001905- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00001906 mailbox.MH.get_message().
1907
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001908- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
1909 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00001910
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001911- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
1912 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
1913 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00001914
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001915- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
1916 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001917
1918- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00001919 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001920
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001921- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
1922 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00001923 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
1924 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
1925
1926- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
1927 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001928
1929- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00001930 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001931
1932- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00001933 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00001934
1935- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
1936 called immediately before and after a test run.
1937
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001938- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00001939 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
1940 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
1941 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001942
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001943- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00001944
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00001945- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
1946 printing out values.
1947
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001948- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00001949
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00001950- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
1951 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
1952 threads.
1953
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00001954- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
1955
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00001956- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
1957
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001958- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00001959 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
1960 that it was failing to do localization.
1961
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001962- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00001963 Brandl.
1964
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001965- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
1966 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00001967
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00001968- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
1969 with the threading module.
1970
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001971- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00001972
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00001973- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
1974
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001975- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
1976 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00001977
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001978- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001979 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
1980 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00001981
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001982- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
1983 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00001984
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00001985- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
1986 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
1987 output compared to previous Python versions.
1988
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00001989- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
1990
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00001991- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001992 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
1993 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00001994
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001995- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
1996 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
1997 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
1998 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00001999
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002000- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
2001 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
2002 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
2003 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00002004
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00002005- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
2006 even if an exception occurs.
2007
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00002008- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
2009 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
2010
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002011- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
2012 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00002013
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002014- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
2015 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00002016
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002017- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00002018 character.
2019
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002020- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
2021 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00002022
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002023- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00002024
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00002025- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002026 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
2027 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00002028
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002029- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
2030 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
2031 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00002032
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00002033- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
2034
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002035- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00002036 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
2037
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00002038- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
2039
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00002040- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
2041
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002042- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00002043
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00002044- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
2045
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00002046- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
2047
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00002048- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
2049 ready received.
2050
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00002051- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
2052 import guess_extension`` was used.
2053
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002054- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
2055 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00002056
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00002057- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
2058 overrun.
2059
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00002060- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
2061 bdist_rpm command.
2062
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002063- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00002064
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002065- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00002066
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00002067- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
2068 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
2069
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002070- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
2071 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00002072
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00002073- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
2074 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002075
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002076- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
2077 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00002078
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00002079- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
2080
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002081- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
2082 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00002083
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002084- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00002085 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
2086
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00002087- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
2088 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
2089
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002090- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00002091
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002092- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
2093 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00002094
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00002095- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
2096 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
2097
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00002098- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
2099 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
2100
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00002101- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002102 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00002103 ctime of the files involved.
2104
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00002105- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
2106 deadlock.
2107
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002108- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
2109 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
2110 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00002111
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00002112- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
2113
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002114- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
2115 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002116
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002117- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
2118 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00002119
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002120- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
2121 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
2122 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00002123
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002124- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
2125 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
2126 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
2127 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00002128
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002129- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00002130 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
2131
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002132- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
2133 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00002134
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00002135- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
2136 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
2137
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002138- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00002139 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
2140
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00002141- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
2142
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002143- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
2144 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00002145
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002146- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
2147 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00002148
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00002149- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
2150
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002151- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00002152 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
2153
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002154- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
2155 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00002156
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002157- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
2158 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00002159
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00002160- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
2161
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002162- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00002163
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002164- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
2165 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00002166
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002167- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
2168 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00002169
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002170- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00002171 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
2172
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002173- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
2174 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00002175
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002176- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
2177 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00002178
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002179- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002180 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
2181 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00002182
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002183- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
2184 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
2185 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
2186 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00002187
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002188- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
2189 parameter was set.
2190
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00002191- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
2192 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00002193 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00002194
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00002195- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002196 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
2197 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00002198
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00002199- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
2200 in sharedctypes.py.
2201
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00002202- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
2203 __getattr__.
2204
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002205- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
2206 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00002207
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002208- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00002209 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
2210
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002211- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00002212
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00002213- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
2214
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00002215- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002216 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
2217 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00002218 Jacques Frechet.
2219
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00002220- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
2221
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002222- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00002223 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
2224
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00002225- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002226 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
2227 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00002228
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002229- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
2230 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00002231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002232- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
2233 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00002234
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00002235- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
2236 the function is not a generator.
2237
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002238- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
2239 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00002240
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002241- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
2242 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00002243
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002244- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
2245 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00002246
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002247- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
2248 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00002249
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00002250- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
2251
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00002252- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
2253
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002254- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
2255 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00002256
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002257- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
2258 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00002259
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00002260- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
2261 Gabriel Genellina.
2262
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00002263- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
2264
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00002265- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
2266
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002267- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00002268
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002269- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
2270 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
2271 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00002272
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002273- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
2274 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002275 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
2276
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002277- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
2278 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
2279 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002280
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002281- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
2282 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
2283 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
2284 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
2285 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002286
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002287- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
2288 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002289
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00002290- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
2291 when given an unicode string.
2292
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00002293- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
2294
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002295- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
2296 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
2297 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00002298
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002299- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
2300 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00002301
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002302- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00002303
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002304- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00002305 statements.
2306
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00002307- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
2308 not a malformed option.
2309
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002310- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
2311 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00002312
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00002313- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2314 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2315 Content-Disposition headers.
2316
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00002317- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002318 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
2319 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
2320 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
2321 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00002322
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00002323- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
2324 exception.
2325
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002326- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
2327 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00002328
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00002329- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
2330
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00002331- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
2332
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00002333- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
2334 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
2335
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00002336- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
2337 and then remove it.
2338
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00002339- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
2340
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00002341- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
2342 debugging.
2343
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00002344- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
2345 inspect.getargvalues.
2346
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00002347- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
2348
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00002349- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
2350 to claiming it is Mature.
2351
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00002352- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
2353 when protocol 0 is used.
2354
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00002355- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
2356 to be consistent with Apple tools.
2357
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00002358- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002359 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00002360
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00002361- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
2362
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002363- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00002364 module.
2365
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002366- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
2367 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00002368
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002369- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00002370
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002371- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00002372
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00002373- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002374 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00002375
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00002376- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002377 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
2378 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00002379
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00002380- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
2381 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
2382
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002383- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
2384 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00002385
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00002386- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
2387 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
2388 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
2389
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00002390- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
2391
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00002392Tools/Demos
2393-----------
2394
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002395- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00002396
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002397- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00002398
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00002399Build
2400-----
2401
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002402- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
2403 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
2404 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00002405
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002406- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
2407 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
2408 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002409
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002410- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00002411
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00002412- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
2413
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002414- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
2415 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00002416
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002417- Issue 5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
2418 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00002419
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002420- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
2421 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00002422
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00002423- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
2424
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00002425- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
2426
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002427- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
2428 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00002429
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00002430- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00002431 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00002432
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00002433- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
2434
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00002435- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
2436
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00002437- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
2438
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00002439- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
2440
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002441- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00002442
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00002443- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
2444
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00002445- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
2446
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00002447- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
2448
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00002449- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
2450
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00002451- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
2452
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00002453- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
2454
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00002455- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
2456
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002457- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00002458
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00002459- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
2460
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00002461Documentation
2462-------------
2463
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002464- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
2465 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00002466
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002467- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
2468 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00002469
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00002470C-API
2471-----
2472
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00002473- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
2474
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002475- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
2476 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00002477
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002478- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
2479 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00002480
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002481- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
2482 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00002483
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002484- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
2485 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00002486
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00002487- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
2488 PyCode_Addr2Line().
2489
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00002490- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
2491 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
2492
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00002493- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
2494 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
2495
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00002496- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
2497
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002498- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
2499 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00002500
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00002501- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
2502
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002503- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
2504 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00002505
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00002506- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
2507 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002508
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002509- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00002510 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00002511
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00002512Extension Modules
2513-----------------
2514
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00002515- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
2516
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00002517- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
2518
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002519- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00002520
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00002521- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002522 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00002523
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002524- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
2525 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00002526
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002527- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
2528 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00002529
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00002530- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
2531 module.
2532
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00002533- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
2534
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00002535- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00002536 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00002537
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002538- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
2539 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
2540 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00002541
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002542- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
2543 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
2544 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00002545
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002546- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
2547 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
2548 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00002549
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002550 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
2551 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00002552
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002553 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
2554 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
2555 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
2556 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
2557 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
2558 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
2559 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00002560
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002561 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
2562 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
2563 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002564
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00002565- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
2566
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002567- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
2568 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00002569
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00002570- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
2571 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00002572 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00002573
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00002574- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00002575
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00002576- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
2577
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00002578- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
2579
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00002580- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
2581
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00002582- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
2583
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00002584- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
2585 OpenBSD.
2586
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00002587- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
2588
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00002589- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
2590
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00002591- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
2592
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00002593Tests
2594-----
2595
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002596- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
2597 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
2598 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00002599
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002600- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
2601 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00002602
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002603- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
2604 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00002605
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00002606- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
2607
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00002608- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
2609 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
2610
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00002611- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002612 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
2613 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
2614 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00002615
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002616- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
2617 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00002618
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00002619- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
2620 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
2621
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00002622- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
2623 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
2624 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00002625
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00002626- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
2627
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00002628- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
2629 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
2630
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00002631- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
2632 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002633 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
2634 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00002635
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00002636- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
2637 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
2638
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002639- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
2640 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
2641 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
2642 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
2643 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00002644
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00002645- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
2646
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00002647- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
2648
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00002649- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
2650
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002651- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
2652 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
2653 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00002654
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00002655- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
2656
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00002657- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
2658 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
2659 incorrectly on __exit__.
2660
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00002661- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
2662
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00002663Misc
2664----
2665
2666- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
2667
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002668
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002669What's New in Python 2.6 final
2670==============================
2671
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00002672*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002673
2674Core and Builtins
2675-----------------
2676
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00002677- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
2678 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
2679
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00002680- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
2681 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
2682
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00002683- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
2684
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002685Library
2686-------
2687
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00002688- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
2689 true singleton object.
2690
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00002691- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
2692 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
2693 into a float.
2694
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00002695- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
2696
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00002697- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
2698 sizes.
2699
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00002700- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
2701
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00002702- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
2703 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
2704
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00002705Build
2706-----
2707
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00002708- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
2709 installer.
2710
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00002711- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
2712
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002713
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00002714What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
2715=============================================
2716
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00002717*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00002718
2719Core and Builtins
2720-----------------
2721
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00002722Extension Modules
2723-----------------
2724
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00002725- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
2726 segfault as a result.
2727
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00002728- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
2729 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00002730
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00002731Tools/Demos
2732-----------
2733
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00002734- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00002735 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
2736 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
2737 are caught and silenced.
2738
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00002739Build
2740-----
2741
2742- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
2743 C runtime in the Windows installer.
2744
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00002745
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002746What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
2747=============================================
2748
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00002749*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002750
2751Core and Builtins
2752-----------------
2753
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00002754- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
2755
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00002756- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
2757 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
2758 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
2759 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
2760 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
2761 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
2762 64bit values.
2763
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00002764- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
2765 error.
2766
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00002767- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
2768 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
2769 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
2770 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
2771
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00002772- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
2773 a unicode argument.
2774
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00002775- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
2776
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00002777- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00002778 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00002779 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
2780
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00002781- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00002782 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
2783 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
2784 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
2785 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
2786 type object.
2787
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00002788- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
2789
2790- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
2791
2792- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
2793
2794- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
2795
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00002796- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
2797 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
2798
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00002799- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
2800 ``__delslice__``.
2801
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00002802- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
2803 library targets in the Makefile.
2804
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00002805- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
2806 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
2807 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
2808
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00002809C-API
2810-----
2811
2812- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
2813
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002814Library
2815-------
2816
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00002817- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
2818 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
2819
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00002820- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
2821
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00002822- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
2823
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00002824- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
2825 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
2826 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
2827
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00002828- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
2829
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00002830- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00002831 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
2832
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00002833- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
2834
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00002835- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
2836
2837- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00002838
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00002839- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
2840 its symbolic link.
2841
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00002842- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
2843
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00002844- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
2845 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
2846 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
2847
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00002848- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
2849 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
2850
2851- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00002852
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00002853- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
2854 path to the Python binary.
2855
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00002856- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
2857 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
2858 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
2859 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
2860
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00002861- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
2862
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00002863- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
2864
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00002865- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
2866
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00002867- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
2868
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00002869- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
2870 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00002871
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00002872- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
2873 non-integer floating point number.
2874
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00002875- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00002876 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
2877
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00002878Extension Modules
2879-----------------
2880
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00002881- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
2882 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
2883
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00002884- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
2885 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
2886 without limit.
2887
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00002888- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
2889 exploitation of poor argument checking.
2890
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00002891- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
2892
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00002893- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
2894 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
2895
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00002896- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
2897 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
2898 threads/processes.
2899
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00002900Tests
2901-----
2902
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00002903- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
2904 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
2905 that expected warning messages are being reported.
2906
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00002907- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
2908
2909- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00002910
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00002911Build
2912-----
2913
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00002914- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
2915
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00002916- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
2917 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
2918
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00002919- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
2920
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00002921- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00002922 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00002923
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002924
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002925What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
2926================================
2927
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00002928*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002929
2930Core and Builtins
2931-----------------
2932
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00002933- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
2934 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
2935 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
2936 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
2937 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
2938 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
2939 default.
2940
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00002941- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
2942 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
2943
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00002944- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
2945 value again.
2946
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00002947- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
2948 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
2949 and introducing s*.
2950
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00002951- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
2952 object was stored in the freelist.
2953
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00002954- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
2955 ValueError consistently across platforms.
2956
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00002957- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
2958 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
2959 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
2960
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00002961- Apply security patches from Apple.
2962
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00002963- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
2964 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
2965
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00002966- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
2967 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
2968
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00002969- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
2970 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
2971 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
2972
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00002973- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
2974 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
2975 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
2976 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
2977 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
2978 failed have been fixed.
2979
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002980Library
2981-------
2982
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00002983- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
2984
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00002985- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
2986 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
2987
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00002988- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
2989 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
2990 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
2991
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00002992- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
2993 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
2994 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
2995 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
2996 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
2997 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
2998
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00002999- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
3000 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
3001
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00003002- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
3003
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00003004- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
3005
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00003006- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
3007
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00003008- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
3009 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
3010
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00003011- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00003012 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
3013
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00003014- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
3015 in a redirect.
3016
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00003017- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00003018 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00003019
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00003020- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
3021 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
3022
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00003023- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
3024 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
3025 regular expression.
3026
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00003027- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
3028 thread-safe.
3029
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00003030- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
3031 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
3032 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
3033
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00003034- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
3035
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00003036- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
3037 menu entries were not deleted.
3038
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00003039- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
3040 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
3041
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00003042- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
3043 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
3044
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00003045- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
3046 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
3047 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
3048
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00003049- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
3050 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
3051 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
3052
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00003053- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
3054 the reload() built-in has been removed.
3055
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00003056- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00003057 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00003058 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
3059 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
3060 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
3061 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
3062 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00003063
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00003064- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
3065 raised an AttributeError.
3066
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00003067- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00003068 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
3069 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00003070
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00003071- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
3072 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
3073
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00003074- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
3075
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00003076- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
3077 on a closed shelf.
3078
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00003079- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
3080
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003081- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
3082
3083- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
3084 invalid arguments.
3085
3086- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
3087 with None arguments.
3088
3089- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
3090 configuration files.
3091
3092- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
3093
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00003094- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
3095 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
3096 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
3097
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00003098- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
3099 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
3100 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
3101
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00003102Build
3103-----
3104
3105- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
3106
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00003107Documentation
3108-------------
3109
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00003110- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
3111 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
3112
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00003113- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
3114 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
3115 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
3116 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
3117
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003118
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00003119What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
3120================================
3121
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003122*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
3123
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00003124Core and Builtins
3125-----------------
3126
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00003127- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
3128 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
3129 an integer using operator.index().
3130
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00003131- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
3132 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
3133
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00003134- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
3135 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
3136
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00003137- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
3138 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
3139 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
3140
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00003141- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
3142 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
3143 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
3144 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
3145 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
3146 level.
3147
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00003148- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
3149 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
3150 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
3151 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
3152 all imports from that module to fail.
3153
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00003154- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
3155 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
3156 new-style classes.
3157
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00003158- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
3159 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
3160 another file in sys.stdout.
3161
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00003162- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
3163 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
3164 another thread's dictionary.
3165
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00003166- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
3167 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
3168 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
3169 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
3170 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
3171 10, -1).
3172
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00003173- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
3174 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
3175 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00003176
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00003177- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
3178 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
3179 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00003180
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003181Library
3182-------
3183
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00003184- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
3185 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
3186 error when they failed.
3187
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00003188- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
3189
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00003190- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
3191
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00003192- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
3193
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00003194- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
3195
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00003196- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
3197 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
3198
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003199- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00003200
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00003201- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
3202 a valid dlerror() message.
3203
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00003204- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
3205 incomplete structure was created.
3206
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00003207- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
3208
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00003209- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
3210
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003211- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00003212
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00003213- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
3214 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003215 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00003216 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
3217 merged into trunk.
3218
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00003219- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
3220
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00003221- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
3222
3223- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
3224
3225- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
3226 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003227 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00003228
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003229- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003230 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00003231
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00003232- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
3233 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
3234
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003235- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
3236 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
3237
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00003238- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
3239 interrupted by a signal.
3240
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003241- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00003242 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
3243 Prevents a deadlock.
3244
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00003245- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
3246 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
3247 default https port (443).
3248
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00003249- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
3250 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
3251 if the new process uses the threading module.
3252
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00003253Tests
3254-----
3255
3256- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
3257 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
3258 have been added to test_warnings.
3259
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00003260Build
3261-----
3262
3263- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
3264
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003265
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00003266Documentation
3267-------------
3268
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00003269- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00003270 Python 3.0.
3271
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00003272- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
3273
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00003274- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
3275 Python 3.0.
3276
3277- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
3278 Python 3.0.
3279
3280
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003281What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
3282================================
3283
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00003284*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003285
3286Core and Builtins
3287-----------------
3288
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00003289- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
3290 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
3291 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
3292 bus error.
3293
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00003294- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
3295 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
3296
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00003297- Add future_builtins.ascii().
3298
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00003299- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00003300 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00003301
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00003302- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
3303
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00003304- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
3305
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00003306- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
3307
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00003308- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
3309
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003310- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
3311 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
3312 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
3313 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00003314
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00003315- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
3316
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003317- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
3318 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00003319
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003320- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
3321 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00003322
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003323- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
3324 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
3325 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00003326
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00003327- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
3328 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
3329 can't be triggered from Python code.
3330
3331
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003332Extension Modules
3333-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00003334- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003335
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00003336- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
3337
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00003338- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00003339
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00003340- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
3341 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
3342
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00003343- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
3344 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
3345
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00003346- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
3347 weakref.proxy.
3348
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003349- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
3350 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00003351
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00003352- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00003353
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00003354- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00003355 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
3356 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00003357
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003358- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
3359 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
3360 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00003361
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00003362- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
3363 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
3364 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
3365
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003366- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00003367
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00003368- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00003369
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003370Library
3371-------
3372
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00003373- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
3374 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
3375
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00003376- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
3377
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00003378- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
3379 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
3380 sense).
3381
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00003382- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
3383
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00003384- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
3385 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
3386 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
3387 the patch.
3388
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003389- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
3390 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
3391 the patch).
3392
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00003393- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
3394 os.uname exists.
3395
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00003396- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
3397
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00003398- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
3399
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00003400- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
3401 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
3402 pointer-like object.
3403
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00003404- Added the ast module.
3405
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003406- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00003407
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00003408- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
3409 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
3410
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00003411- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
3412 to errno.
3413
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003414- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00003415
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003416- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00003417 msilib.Record objects.
3418
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00003419- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
3420 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
3421
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00003422- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
3423 in Python 3.0.
3424
3425- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
3426 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00003427
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00003428- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
3429 False boolean value now.
3430
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00003431- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
3432 transfers.
3433
3434- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
3435 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00003436
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00003437- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
3438 when the TarFile is closed.
3439
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00003440- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
3441 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
3442 an exception.
3443
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00003444- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
3445 otherwise be produced.
3446
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00003447- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
3448 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
3449
3450- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
3451 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
3452
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00003453- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
3454 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
3455 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
3456
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00003457- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
3458
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003459- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00003460 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
3461 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
3462 'm' or 'c'.
3463
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00003464- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3465
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003466- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
3467 removal in Python 3.0.
3468
3469- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3470 3.0.
3471
3472- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3473 3.0.
3474
3475- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3476 3.0.
3477
3478- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00003479 Python 3.0.
3480
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00003481- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
3482 Python 3.0.
3483
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003484- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3485 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00003486
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003487- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3488 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00003489
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003490- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3491 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00003492
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003493- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3494 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00003495
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003496- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00003497 Python 3.0.
3498
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003499- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3500 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00003501
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003502- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3503 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00003504
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003505- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3506 3.0.
3507
3508- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
3509 removal in Python 3.0.
3510
3511- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3512 3.0.
3513
3514- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3515 3.0.
3516
3517- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
3518 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00003519
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003520- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
3521 removal in Python 3.0.
3522
3523- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00003524 Python 3.0.
3525
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003526- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3527 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00003528
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00003529- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
3530 Python 3.0.
3531
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00003532- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
3533 Python 3.0.
3534
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003535- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00003536
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00003537- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3538
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00003539- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3540
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00003541- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
3542
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00003543- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3544
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003545- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
3546 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
3547 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00003548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003549- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
3550 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00003551
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00003552- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3553
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003554- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
3555 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00003556
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00003557- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3558
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00003559- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3560
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00003561- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3562
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00003563- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3564
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00003565- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3566
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003567- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
3568 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00003569
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00003570- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3571
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00003572- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3573
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00003574- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
3575 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
3576 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
3577 OverflowError.
3578
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00003579- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3580
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003581- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
3582 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00003583
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00003584- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3585
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00003586- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3587
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00003588- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3589
3590- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00003591
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003592- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3593
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00003594- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
3595
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00003596- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
3597
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00003598- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00003599
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003600- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
3601 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00003602
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003603- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00003604 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
3605 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
3606 of Python.
3607
3608- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
3609 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
3610
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00003611- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
3612 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00003613
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003614Build
3615-----
3616
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00003617- 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 +00003618
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00003619- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
3620
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00003621- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
3622
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00003623- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
3624 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003625 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00003626
3627 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
3628
3629 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
3630
3631 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
3632
3633 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
3634
3635 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
3636
3637 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
3638
3639
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00003640C API
3641-----
3642
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00003643- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
3644
3645- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00003646
3647- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
3648 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
3649 PyString names.
3650
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00003651
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003652What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003653=================================
3654
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00003655*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003656
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00003657Core and builtins
3658-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00003659
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00003660- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
3661
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003662- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
3663 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00003664
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003665- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
3666 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00003667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003668- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00003669
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00003670Extension Modules
3671-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003672
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003673- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
3674 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00003675
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00003676- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
3677
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003678- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
3679 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00003680
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003681- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
3682 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00003683
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003684- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
3685 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00003686
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003687- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
3688 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
3689 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
3690 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
3691 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
3692 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
3693 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
3694 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00003695
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003696Library
3697-------
3698
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00003699- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3700
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003701- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
3702 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00003703
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00003704- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
3705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003706- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
3707 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00003708
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00003709- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
3710 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
3711 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
3712
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00003713- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003714 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00003715
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00003716- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00003717 reference to themselves.
3718
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00003719- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
3720 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
3721 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00003722
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00003723- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
3724 1900-01-01.
3725
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00003726- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
3727 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
3728
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00003729- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
3730 now implemented in C for better performance.
3731
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003732- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
3733 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
3734 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00003735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003736- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00003737 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
3738 build documentation for more information.
3739
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00003740- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
3741 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
3742 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
3743 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
3744
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00003745- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
3746 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
3747 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
3748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003749- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
3750 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
3751 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
3752 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00003753
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003754Tests
3755-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00003756
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003757- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
3758 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
3759 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
3760 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
3761 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
3762 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
3763 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
3764 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
3765 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
3766 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
3767 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
3768 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
3769 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
3770 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
3771 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
3772 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
3773 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
3774 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
3775 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
3776 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
3777
3778 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
3779 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
3780 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
3781 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
3782 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
3783 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
3784 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
3785 access to the underlying socket used.
3786
3787 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
3788 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
3789 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00003790
3791 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003792 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00003793 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
3794 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
3795
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003796 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
3797 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003798
3799Build
3800-----
3801
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00003802- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
3803
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00003804- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
3805 gcc is used as compiler.
3806
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00003807- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003808 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00003809
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003810C API
3811-----
3812
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003813- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
3814 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
3815 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
3816 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00003817
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00003818- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00003819
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003820
3821What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
3822=================================
3823
3824*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
3825
3826Core and builtins
3827-----------------
3828
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003829- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
3830 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
3831 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00003832
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00003833- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
3834 cannot be executed.
3835
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00003836- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
3837 reference on the outer class name.
3838
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00003839- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003840 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00003841
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003842- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
3843 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00003844
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00003845- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003846
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00003847- Added backport of bytearray type.
3848
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00003849- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
3850
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00003851- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003852 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
3853 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
3854 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
3855 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
3856 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00003857
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00003858- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
3859
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003860- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
3861 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00003862
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00003863- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00003864
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00003865- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
3866
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003867- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
3868 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00003869
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003870- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
3871 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00003872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003873- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00003874 exception instances.
3875
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00003876- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003877 doesn't derive from BaseException.
3878
3879- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
3880 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00003881
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00003882- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
3883 memory usage in some circumstances.
3884
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003885- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
3886 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
3887 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00003888
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00003889- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
3890
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003891- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00003892 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
3893 longer passed.
3894
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00003895- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
3896
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003897- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
3898 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
3899 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00003900
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003901- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
3902 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00003903
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00003904- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
3905
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00003906Extension Modules
3907-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00003908
3909- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
3910
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00003911Library
3912-------
3913
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003914- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
3915 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003916
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003917- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
3918 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
3919 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003920
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003921- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
3922 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003923
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003924- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
3925 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
3926 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00003927
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003928- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
3929 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00003930
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00003931- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
3932
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00003933- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
3934 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
3935 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
3936
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00003937- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
3938
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00003939- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
3940 advertised in the docs.
3941
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003942- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00003943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003944- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00003945
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003946- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
3947 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00003948
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00003949- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
3950 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
3951
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003952- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
3953 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00003954 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
3955 information as well.
3956
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003957- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
3958 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00003959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003960- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
3961 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00003962
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003963- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
3964 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
3965 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00003966
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00003967- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
3968 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
3969 strftime.
3970
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00003971- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003972 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
3973 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00003974
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00003975- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
3976 correctly under win32
3977
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003978- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00003979
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00003980- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003981 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
3982 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
3983 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00003984
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00003985- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
3986 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
3987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003988- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
3989 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00003990
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003991- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
3992 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
3993 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00003994
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003995- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00003996 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
3997
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00003998- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
3999 from 't' to '?'.
4000
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004001- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
4002 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004003 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
4004 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
4005 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004006
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004007- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
4008 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00004009
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00004010Tests
4011-----
4012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004013- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
4014 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00004015
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00004016- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
4017
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00004018- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
4019
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00004020- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
4021
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00004022- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
4023
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004024- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
4025 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00004026
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00004027- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
4028
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00004029- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
4030
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004031- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
4032 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00004033
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00004034- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
4035
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00004036- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
4037
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00004038- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
4039 permission to create files in the root directory.
4040
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00004041Build
4042-----
4043
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00004044- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
4045
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004046- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
4047 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00004048
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00004049- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00004050
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004051C API
4052-----
4053
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004054- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004055 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
4056
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004057
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004058What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
4059=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004060
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00004061*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004062
4063Core and builtins
4064-----------------
4065
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00004066- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00004067 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00004068
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00004069- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
4070
4071- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00004072
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004073- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00004074 issue 215555 for a discussion.
4075
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00004076- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
4077 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
4078 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
4079 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
4080 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
4081 module is:
4082 from future_builtins import hex, oct
4083
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00004084- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
4085 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
4086 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
4087 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
4088 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
4089 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
4090
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00004091- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
4092 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
4093 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
4094 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
4095 PyObject_Format().
4096
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004097- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
4098 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
4099 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00004100
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004101- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004102 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
4103 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00004104
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004105- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
4106 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00004107
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004108- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
4109 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
4110 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00004111
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004112- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
4113 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
4114 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00004115
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00004116- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
4117 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
4118
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004119- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004120 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00004121
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004122- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
4123 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00004124 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
4125
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004126- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
4127 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
4128 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00004129
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004130- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
4131 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00004132
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004133- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
4134 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00004135
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004136- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
4137 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00004138
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004139- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
4140 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00004141
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004142- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
4143 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
4144 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00004145
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004146- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
4147 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
4148 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
4149 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00004150
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00004151- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
4152 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
4153 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
4154
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004155- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00004156 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
4157 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
4158
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004159- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00004160 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
4161 support.
4162
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00004163- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
4164 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
4165
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00004166- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
4167
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004168- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00004169 added.
4170
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00004171- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
4172 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
4173
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004174- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
4175 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00004176
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004177- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
4178 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
4179 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00004180
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004181- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
4182 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00004183
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00004184- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
4185 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00004186
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00004187- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
4188
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004189- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
4190 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
4191 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00004192
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004193- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
4194 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
4195 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00004196
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004197- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00004198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004199- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
4200 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00004201
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00004202- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004203 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
4204 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00004205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004206- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
4207 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
4208 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
4209 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00004210
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004211- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00004212
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004213- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
4214 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00004215
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004216- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
4217 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00004218
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00004219- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00004220 SystemError.
4221
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00004222- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
4223 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
4224 __package__ attribute.
4225
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004226- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
4227 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
4228 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00004229
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00004230- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
4231
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004232- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00004233 attribute of an empty cell object.
4234
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004235- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
4236 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00004237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004238- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
4239 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
4240 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
4241 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00004242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004243- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
4244 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
4245 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00004246
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00004247- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
4248
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00004249- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
4250
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00004251- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
4252
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004253- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004254 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
4255 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00004256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004257- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
4258 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
4259 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
4260 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
4261 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
4262 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00004263
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004264- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
4265 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
4266 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
4267 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
4268 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00004269
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004270- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
4271 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
4272 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00004273
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004274- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
4275 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00004276
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00004277- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004278 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
4279 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
4280 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
4281 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
4282 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00004283
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004284- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
4285 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00004286
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00004287- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
4288 with %G.
4289
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004290- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
4291 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00004292
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004293- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00004294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004295- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00004296
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00004297- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004298 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
4299 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00004300
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00004301- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
4302 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
4303
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00004304- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
4305 calls.
4306
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00004307- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004308 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
4309 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00004310
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00004311- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
4312
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004313- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004314 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00004315
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004316- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00004317 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
4318
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00004319- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
4320
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00004321- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
4322 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
4323 remaining characters.
4324
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00004325- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
4326 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
4327
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00004328- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
4329
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00004330- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
4331 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
4332 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
4333 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
4334 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00004335 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
4336 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00004337
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004338- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
4339 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
4340 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
4341 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
4342 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00004343
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004344- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
4345 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
4346 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00004347
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004348- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
4349 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00004350
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004351- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
4352 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
4353 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00004354
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004355- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
4356 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00004357
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00004358- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
4359
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00004360- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
4361 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
4362
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00004363- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004364 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
4365 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
4366 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00004367
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00004368- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
4369 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
4370
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004371- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
4372 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00004373
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004374- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
4375 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
4376 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00004377
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00004378- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004379 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
4380 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00004381
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00004382- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
4383 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004384 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
4385 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00004386
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004387- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
4388 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00004389
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004390- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
4391 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00004392
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00004393- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
4394 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
4395
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004396- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
4397 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
4398 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00004399
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004400- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
4401 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00004402
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004403- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
4404 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00004405
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004406- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
4407 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
4408 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00004409
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00004410- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
4411 frame's thread state.
4412
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004413- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
4414 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00004415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004416- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
4417 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00004418
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004419- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
4420 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00004421
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004422- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
4423 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00004424
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004425- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
4426 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00004427
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00004428- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
4429
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00004430- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
4431
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00004432- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
4433
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004434- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
4435 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00004436
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004437- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00004438
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00004439- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
4440 again, no longer the posix error code.
4441
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00004442- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
4443 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
4444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004445- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
4446 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00004447
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00004448- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
4449 embedded in the string to convert.
4450
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00004451- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
4452 recognized and rejected.
4453
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00004454- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
4455
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00004456- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
4457 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
4458 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00004459
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00004460- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
4461 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
4462
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00004463- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004464 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
4465 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00004466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004467- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
4468 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
4469 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00004470
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00004471- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
4472
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00004473- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
4474
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00004475- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
4476
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004477- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
4478 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
4479 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00004480
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00004481- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
4482 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
4483 'exceptions'.
4484
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00004485- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
4486 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
4487
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00004488- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
4489 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
4490
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00004491- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
4492
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00004493- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
4494
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00004495- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
4496 head is the original string if sep was not found.
4497
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00004498- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004499 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
4500 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
4501 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00004502
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004503- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00004504
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004505- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
4506 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004507
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00004508- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
4509 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00004510
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004511- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00004512 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
4513 it actually exited.
4514
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004515
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004516Library
4517-------
4518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004519- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00004520
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00004521- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
4522
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00004523- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
4524
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004525- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
4526 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00004527
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004528- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00004529
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004530- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
4531 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
4532 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00004533
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004534- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
4535 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00004536
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004537- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00004538 (ignore-case)
4539
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00004540- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
4541 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
4542 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
4543 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
4544
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004545- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
4546 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00004547
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004548- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
4549 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00004550
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00004551- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
4552 pickled.
4553
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00004554- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
4555 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
4556
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00004557- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
4558 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
4559 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
4560
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004561- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
4562 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00004563
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004564- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
4565 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
4566 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00004567
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004568- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
4569 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00004570
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004571- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
4572 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00004573
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004574- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
4575 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
4576 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
4577 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00004578
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004579- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
4580 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004581 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
4582
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00004583- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
4584
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004585- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
4586 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00004587
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004588- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00004589
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004590- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
4591 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004592
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004593- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
4594 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004596- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
4597 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004598
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004599- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
4600 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004601
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004602- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
4603 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
4604 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00004605
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004606- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
4607 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00004608
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004609- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
4610 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00004611
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004612- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
4613 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00004614
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004615- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
4616 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00004617
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004618- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
4619 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00004620
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004621- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
4622 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00004623
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00004624- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
4625 with extended local headers.
4626
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004627- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
4628 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00004629
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004630- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00004631 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
4632 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
4633
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004634- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
4635 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00004636
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004637- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
4638 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00004639
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004640- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
4641 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00004642
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004643- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
4644 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00004645
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004646- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
4647 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00004648
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00004649- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004650 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00004651 Textbox.gather().
4652
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00004653- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
4654 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00004655 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
4656 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00004657
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00004658- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
4659 that array types do not live longer than needed.
4660
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00004661- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
4662 and when creating a recursive instance.
4663
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004664- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
4665 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
4666 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00004667
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00004668- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
4669 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
4670 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
4671
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004672- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
4673 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00004674
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004675- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00004676 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
4677
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004678- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00004679 good for long regular expression matches.
4680
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004681- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
4682 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00004683
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00004684- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
4685 the current context.
4686
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00004687- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
4688 zipfile module.
4689
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00004690- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
4691
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004692- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
4693 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00004694
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00004695- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
4696
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00004697- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
4698
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004699- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
4700 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00004701
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00004702- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
4703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004704- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
4705 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00004706
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004707- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
4708 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00004709
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00004710- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
4711
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00004712- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
4713 Tcl objects.
4714
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00004715- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
4716
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004717- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
4718 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
4719 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
4720 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00004721
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004722- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
4723 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00004724
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004725- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
4726 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00004727
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004728- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
4729 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00004730
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004731- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
4732 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00004733
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00004734- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
4735 method used universal newlines.
4736
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00004737- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
4738 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
4739
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00004740- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
4741 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
4742
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00004743- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
4744 files are updated.
4745
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004746- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
4747 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00004748
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00004749- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
4750 configured with --with-system-ffi.
4751
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00004752- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00004753 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00004754
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00004755- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
4756
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004757- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
4758 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
4759 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00004760
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004761- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
4762 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00004763
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00004764- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00004765
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00004766- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
4767
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004768- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
4769 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00004770
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00004771- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
4772 to be orderable to properly represent them.
4773
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00004774- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
4775
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00004776- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
4777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004778- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
4779 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
4780 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00004781
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00004782- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
4783 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
4784
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004785- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
4786 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00004787
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004788- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
4789 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00004790
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00004791- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
4792
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00004793- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
4794
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00004795- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
4796 syllables.
4797
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004798- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
4799 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00004800
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00004801- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
4802
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00004803- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
4804 represent the result in a single character.
4805
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00004806- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
4807
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00004808- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
4809
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00004810- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
4811 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
4812 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
4813
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00004814- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4815
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004816- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
4817 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00004818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004819- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
4820 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
4821 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00004822
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004823- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
4824 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
4825 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00004826
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00004827- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004828 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
4829 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00004830
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004831- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
4832 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00004833
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004834- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
4835 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00004836
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00004837- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4838
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00004839- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4840
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004841- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
4842 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
4843 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00004844
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00004845- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4846
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00004847- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4848
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00004849- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
4850 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
4851
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00004852- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
4853
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00004854- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
4855
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00004856- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004858- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
4859 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00004860
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004861- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
4862 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00004863
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00004864- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
4865 the directories).
4866
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00004867- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
4868 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
4869 injecting HTML into the error page.
4870
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004871- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
4872 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00004873
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004874- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
4875 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004876
4877- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
4878
4879- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
4880
4881- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
4882 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
4883 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
4884
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00004885- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
4886 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
4887 ".cpp" too.
4888
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00004889- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004890 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
4891 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
4892 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00004893
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004894- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
4895 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00004896
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004897- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
4898 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00004899
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00004900- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
4901 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
4902 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
4903 closes patch #723312.
4904
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004905- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
4906 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00004907 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00004908
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00004909- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
4910
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00004911- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
4912 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
4913
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00004914- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
4915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004916- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
4917 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00004918 directories.
4919
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00004920- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
4921 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
4922 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
4923 trying Mozilla variants.
4924
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00004925- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
4926
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00004927- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
4928 initialization failed.
4929
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00004930- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004931 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
4932 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00004933
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004934- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
4935 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
4936 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00004937
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004938- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
4939 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00004940 correctly now.
4941
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00004942- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
4943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004944- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
4945 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00004946
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00004947- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
4948
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004949- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
4950 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
4951 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00004952
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004953- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
4954 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
4955 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
4956 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00004957
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004958- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
4959 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
4960 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00004961
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00004962- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
4963 whitespace while wrapping.
4964
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00004965- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004966 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
4967 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00004968
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004969- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
4970 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
4971 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00004972
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00004973- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
4974 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
4975
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004976- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
4977 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00004978
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00004979- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
4980 concatenation in robotparser.
4981
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00004982- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004983 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
4984 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00004985
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00004986- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
4987 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
4988
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00004989- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
4990
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004991- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
4992 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
4993 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00004994
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004995- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
4996 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
4997 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00004998
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004999- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
5000 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00005001 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00005002
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00005003- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
5004 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
5005
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00005006- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
5007 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
5008
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00005009- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
5010 returned string up to the first NUL character.
5011
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00005012- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
5013
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00005014- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
5015
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005016- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
5017 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
5018 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00005019
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00005020- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
5021
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005022- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
5023 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
5024 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
5025 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
5026 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
5027 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00005028
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005029- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
5030 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00005031
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00005032- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
5033 comprehensive test suite for the module.
5034
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00005035- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
5036 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
5037
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005038- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
5039 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
5040 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00005041
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005042- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00005043 in HTMLParser.
5044
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00005045- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
5046 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
5047
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00005048- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
5049
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00005050- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
5051
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00005052- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
5053
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00005054- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00005055
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00005056- Added itertools.izip_longest().
5057
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005058- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
5059 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00005060
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00005061- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
5062
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00005063- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
5064 doesn't exist.
5065
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00005066- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
5067
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00005068- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
5069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005070- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00005071
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005072- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
5073 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00005074
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005075- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
5076 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00005077
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005078- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
5079 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00005080
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00005081- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005082 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00005083
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00005084- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
5085 iso8859_16.
5086
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005087- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
5088 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
5089 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
5090 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00005091
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005092- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
5093
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00005094- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
5095 directories.
5096
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00005097- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
5098
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005099- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
5100 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00005101
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005102- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005103 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005104
5105- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005106 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005107
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005108- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005109
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005110- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
5111 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00005112
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00005113- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
5114
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00005115- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
5116 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
5117 parameterless foreign function calls work.
5118
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00005119- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
5120
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00005121- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
5122 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
5123 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
5124
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00005125- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
5126 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
5127
5128- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
5129 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
5130
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005131- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
5132 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
5133 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00005134
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005135- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
5136 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00005137
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00005138- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
5139
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005140- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
5141 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00005142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005143- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
5144 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00005145
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005146- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
5147 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00005148
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005149- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
5150 separated lists read from logging config files.
5151
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005152- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
5153 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
5154 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005155
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005156- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
5157 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00005158
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00005159- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
5160
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005161- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
5162 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00005163
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00005164- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
5165
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00005166- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
5167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005168- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
5169 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00005170
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00005171- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
5172 regular files.
5173
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00005174- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
5175
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005176- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
5177 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00005178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005179- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
5180 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00005181
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00005182- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
5183 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
5184
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00005185- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
5186 file name mangling.
5187
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005188- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
5189 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00005190
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00005191- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
5192
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005193- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00005194 HTTPConnection.request().
5195
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00005196- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
5197 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
5198 objects.
5199
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005200- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
5201 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
5202 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00005203
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005204- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
5205 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
5206 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00005207
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005208- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00005209
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005210- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00005211
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00005212- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
5213
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00005214- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005215 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00005216
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00005217- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
5218
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00005219- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
5220 GNU modes.
5221
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00005222- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005223 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00005224 opcode.
5225
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00005226- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
5227 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
5228 statement (bug #1586513).
5229
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00005230- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
5231 correctly.
5232
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00005233- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
5234
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005235- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
5236 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00005237
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00005238- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
5239 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
5240 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
5241
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005242- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
5243 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
5244 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00005245
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005246- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
5247 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00005248
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00005249- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
5250
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00005251- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
5252
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005253- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
5254 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00005255
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005256- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
5257 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00005258
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00005259- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
5260 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
5261
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00005262- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
5263 with a slash.
5264
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00005265- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
5266 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
5267
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00005268- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005269 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00005270
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00005271- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
5272 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
5273 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
5274
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005275- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
5276 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00005277
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005278- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
5279 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00005280
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005281- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
5282 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00005283
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00005284- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
5285
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005286- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00005287 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005288
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005289- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
5290 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00005291
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005292- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
5293 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005294
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00005295- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
5296
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005297- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
5298 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00005299
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005300- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
5301 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
5302 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00005303
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005304- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
5305 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
5306 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00005307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005308- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
5309 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
5310 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
5311 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00005312
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005313- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00005314 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
5315 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005316 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
5317 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
5318 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00005319
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005320- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
5321 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00005322
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005323Extension Modules
5324-----------------
5325
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00005326- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00005327
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00005328- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
5329
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00005330- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
5331
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00005332- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00005333
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005334- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
5335 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00005336
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005337- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
5338 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00005339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005340- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
5341 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00005342
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00005343- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
5344
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00005345- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
5346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005347- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
5348 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00005349
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00005350- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
5351
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005352- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
5353 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00005354
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00005355- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
5356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005357- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
5358 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00005359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005360- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00005361 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
5362 parameter.
5363
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005364- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
5365 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
5366 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
5367 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00005368
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005369- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
5370 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00005371
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005372- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
5373 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00005374
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005375- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
5376 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
5377 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00005378
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005379- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
5380 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00005381
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00005382- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
5383
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00005384- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
5385
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005386- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
5387 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
5388 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00005389
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005390- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
5391 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00005392
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00005393- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
5394
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00005395- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
5396
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005397- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
5398 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
5399 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
5400 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00005401
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00005402- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
5403 get_completion_type to readline.
5404
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00005405- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
5406 structure.
5407
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00005408- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
5409
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00005410- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
5411
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00005412- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
5413 intended for RECNO databases.
5414
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00005415- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005416 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
5417 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
5418 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
5419 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
5420 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
5421 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00005422
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00005423- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
5424
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00005425- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
5426
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005427- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
5428 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
5429 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
5430 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
5431 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00005432
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00005433- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
5434 error in spite of a succesful compression.
5435
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00005436- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
5437 of Py_ssize_t.
5438
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00005439- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
5440 fractional times. With unittest.
5441
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005442- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
5443 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
5444 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00005445
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00005446- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
5447
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00005448- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
5449
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00005450- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
5451
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00005452- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
5453
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005454- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005455 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00005456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005457- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
5458 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00005459
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005460- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
5461 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00005462
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00005463- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
5464 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
5465
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005466- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
5467 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
5468 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00005469
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00005470- Speed up function calls into the math module.
5471
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00005472- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
5473 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
5474 does.
5475
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00005476- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
5477
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00005478- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
5479
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00005480- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
5481
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00005482- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
5483
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00005484- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
5485 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
5486
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00005487- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
5488 datetime's strftime function.
5489
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00005490- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
5491
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00005492- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
5493
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005494- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
5495 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00005496
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00005497- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
5498
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00005499- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005500 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
5501 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00005502
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005503- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
5504 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00005505
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00005506- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005507 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
5508 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00005509 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
5510 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00005511 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00005512 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005513
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00005514- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
5515 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
5516 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
5517 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
5518
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00005519- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
5520 were transposed.
5521
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00005522- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
5523 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00005524
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005525- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
5526 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
5527 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00005528
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00005529- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
5530
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00005531- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
5532
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00005533- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
5534
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00005535- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00005536
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00005537- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
5538 databases without a DBEnv.
5539
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00005540- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
5541
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005542Tests
5543-----
5544
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00005545- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00005546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005547- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
5548 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00005549
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005550- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
5551 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
5552 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00005553
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00005554- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
5555 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00005556
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005557- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
5558 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00005559
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005560- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
5561 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
5562 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00005563
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00005564- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
5565
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005566- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
5567 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
5568 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00005569
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00005570- Added some tests for modulefinder.
5571
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00005572- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
5573
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00005574- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
5575 number properly.
5576
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005577- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
5578 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005579
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005580Tools
5581-----
5582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005583- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
5584 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
5585 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
5586 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00005587
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005588- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
5589 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
5590 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00005591
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00005592- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
5593 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
5594
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005595- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
5596 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005597
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005598- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
5599 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005600
5601- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005602 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
5603 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005604
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005605
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005606Documentation
5607-------------
5608
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00005609- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
5610 include new optional delay argument.
5611
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005612- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
5613 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
5614 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005615
5616- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
5617 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
5618
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00005619- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
5620 Python tutorial.
5621
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00005622- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
5623
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005624- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
5625 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00005626
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00005627- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
5628 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
5629
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00005630- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
5631 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
5632
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00005633- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
5634
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00005635- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
5636 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
5637
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005638- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00005639 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
5640
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00005641- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
5642 docs.
5643
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00005644- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
5645
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00005646- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
5647 string pointed to by its parameter.
5648
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00005649- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
5650
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00005651- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005652 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
5653 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
5654 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00005655
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005656
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00005657Tools/Demos
5658-----------
5659
5660- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00005661
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00005662- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005663 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
5664 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00005665
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00005666- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
5667 file not to get reported properly.
5668
5669
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005670Build
5671-----
5672
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005673- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
5674 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
5675 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00005676
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00005677- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
5678 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
5679
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00005680- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
5681
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005682- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005683
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005684- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
5685 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
5686 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
5687 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005688
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005689- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
5690 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005691
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00005692- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
5693
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00005694- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
5695 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
5696 without this option!
5697
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00005698- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
5699
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00005700- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005701 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
5702 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
5703 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00005704
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005705- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
5706 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00005707
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00005708- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
5709
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00005710- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
5711
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005712- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
5713 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00005714
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005715- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
5716 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00005717
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00005718- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
5719 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
5720 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
5721
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00005722- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
5723 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
5724
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00005725- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
5726
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00005727- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
5728
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005729- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
5730 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00005731
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005732- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00005733 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
5734
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005735- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
5736 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00005737
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00005738- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
5739
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005740- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00005741
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00005742- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
5743
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00005744- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
5745
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00005746- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005747
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005748- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
5749 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
5750 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00005751
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005752
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005753C API
5754-----
5755
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005756- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
5757 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
5758 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
5759 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00005760
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005761- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
5762 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
5763 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00005764
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005765- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00005766
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005767- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
5768 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
5769 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005770
5771- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
5772
5773- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
5774 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
5775
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005776- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
5777 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
5778 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
5779 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005780
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005781- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
5782 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005783
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005784- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
5785 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
5786 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005787
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005788- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
5789 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005790
5791- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
5792
5793- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
5794
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005795- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
5796
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005797- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
5798
5799- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
5800 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
5801
5802- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
5803 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
5804
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005805- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
5806 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
5807 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005808
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005809- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
5810 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005811
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005812- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
5813 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00005814
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005815
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00005816Windows
5817-------
5818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005819- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
5820 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
5821 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
5822 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00005823
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005824- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
5825 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00005826
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00005827- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
5828
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00005829
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005830Mac
5831---
5832
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00005833- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
5834
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00005835- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
5836
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005837- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
5838 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
5839 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00005840
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00005841----
5842
5843**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**