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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Anthony Baxterb0c66302004-11-04 05:23:17 +00005(editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.)
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Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00007What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-20XX*
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12Core and Builtins
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Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +000015- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
16 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
17 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
18 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
19
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +000020- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
21 assignment.
22
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +000023- Issue #5329: Fix os.popen* regression from 2.5 with commands as a
24 sequence running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone
25 and Jani Hakala.
26
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +000027- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
28 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
29
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +000030- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
31 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
32
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +000033- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +000034 take keyword arguments.
35
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +000036- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid
37 UTF-32 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
38
Mark Dickinson4b9d4732009-09-27 16:05:21 +000039- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and
40 long -> string conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +000041
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +000042- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
43
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +000044- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
45 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
46
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +000047- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
48
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +000049- classmethod no longer checks if its argument is callable.
50
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +000051- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
52 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
53
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +000054- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with
55 a target of tuple unpacking.
56
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +000057- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
58
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +000059- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
60
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +000061- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
62 occurred in the argument chain.
63
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +000064- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
65
66- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +000067 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
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Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +000069- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to print(), the default
70 separator and end should be unicode also.
71
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +000072- Issue #6119: Fixed a incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of builtin
73 functions and methods.
74
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +000075- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
76 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
77 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
78
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +000079- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
80
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +000081- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
82 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
83
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +000084- Removed the ipaddr module.
85
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +000086- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
87 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
88
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +000089- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from compile() were being masked.
90
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +000091- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
92 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
93
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +000094- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
95
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +000096- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
97 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
98
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +000099- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Benjamin Peterson95e5ebe2009-07-12 23:56:18 +0000100 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +0000101
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +0000102- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
103 function with __func__.
104
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +0000105- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
106 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +0000107
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +0000108- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
109 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
110
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +0000111- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
112 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
113 and imaginary literals.
114
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +0000115- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
116
Benjamin Peterson0c3b4c62009-05-16 23:34:19 +0000117- __instancecheck__ and __subclasscheck__ are now completely ignored on classic
118 classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +0000119
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +0000120- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
121
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +0000122- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
123 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
124 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
125 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
126 didn't match that of float('-nan').
127
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +0000128- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
129 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
130 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
131 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
132 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
133 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
134 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
135 the same way.
136
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +0000137- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
138 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
139 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
140
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +0000141- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
142 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
143
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000144- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +0000145 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
146
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +0000147- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
148 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
149
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +0000150- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
151 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
152
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +0000153- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
154 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
155
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +0000156- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
157 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
158
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +0000159- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
160
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +0000161- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
162 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
163
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +0000164- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
165 floats, ints, and longs.
166
167- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles
168 leading zero formatting poorly.
169
170- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if
171 we're using no type code and we have an exponent.
172
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +0000173- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions
174 correctly rounded.
175
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +0000176- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
177 some builtin types.
178
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +0000179- Issue #1869: fix a couple of minor round() issues. round(5e15+1)
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +0000180 was giving 5e15+2; round(-0.0) was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +0000181
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +0000182- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
183
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +0000184- Issue #5704: the "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
185
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +0000186- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
187 its clarity and its speed.
188
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +0000189- Issue #2396: the memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
190
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +0000191- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
192 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
193
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +0000194- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
195
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +0000196- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
197 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
198
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +0000199- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
200 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
201 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
202 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
203
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +0000204- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
205 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
206 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
207
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +0000208- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
209 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
210 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
211 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
212 default. Add sys.long_info structseq to provide information about
213 the internal format.
214
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +0000215- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
216 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
217
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +0000218- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
219 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
220 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
221
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +0000222- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
223 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
224
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +0000225- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for warnings.showwarning() a
226 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
227
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +0000228- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
229 used when using str.format() with str, unicode, long, int, and
230 float arguments.
231
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +0000232- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division
233 for ints and longs.
234
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +0000235- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average
236 saving is 2 bytes per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long
237 on a 64-bit system.
238
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +0000239- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
240 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
241
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +0000242- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
243 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
244
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +0000245- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
246
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000247- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +0000248 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
249 zip(), and bytearray().
250
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +0000251- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
252 functions.
253
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +0000254- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
255 OSError.
256
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +0000257- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
258
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +0000259- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
260 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
261 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
262
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +0000263- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
264 __next__ method.
265
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +0000266- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
267
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +0000268- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
269
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000270- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
271 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
272 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +0000273 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000274 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
275
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +0000276- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
277
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +0000278- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
279 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
280 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
281 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
282 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
283
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +0000284- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
285
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +0000286- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
287 file with `str' filename on Windows.
288
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +0000289- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
290 did not get collected.
291
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +0000292- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
293 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
294
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +0000295- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
296 directory on POSIX systems.
297
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +0000298- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
299 systems.
300
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +0000301- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
302 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
303
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +0000304- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
305 fail.
306
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +0000307- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
308 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
309 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
310
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +0000311- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
312
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +0000313- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions.
314 Original patch by Neal Norwitz.
315
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +0000316- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
317 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
318
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +0000319- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
320 exceptions.
321
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +0000322- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyStringObject)" with
323 "offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
324 str instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
325 (on average) per string allocation.
326
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +0000327- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
328 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
329 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
330
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +0000331- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__
332 instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
333
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +0000334- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
335 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
336
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +0000337- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +0000338 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
339 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
340 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
341
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +0000342- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
343 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
344
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +0000345- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the imageop.rgb2rgb8() function.
346
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +0000347- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
348
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +0000349- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
350
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +0000351- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
352 exec statement.
353
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +0000354- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
355 method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
356
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +0000357- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
358 __future__ import didn't work.
359
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000360- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +0000361 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000362
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +0000363- On windows, os.chdir given unicode was not working if GetCurrentDirectoryW
364 returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful this code path is
365 really executed because I cannot move to such directory on win2k)
366
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +0000367- Issue #4069: When set.remove(element) is used with a set element, the element
368 is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the eventual
369 KeyError would always report the empty frozenset([]) as the missing key. Now
370 it correctly refers to the initial element.
371
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +0000372- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
373 which there are buffer exports.
374
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +0000375- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
376
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +0000377- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
378
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +0000379- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
380
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +0000381- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
382 short file names.
383
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +0000384- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
385 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +0000386
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +0000387- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
388 returned them on 64bit platforms.
389
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +0000390- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
391 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
392 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
393 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
394
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +0000395- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
396 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
397
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000398Library
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Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +0000400
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +0000401- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
402 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
403
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +0000404- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
405 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
406
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +0000407- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
408 is too large to fit in the current precision.
409
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +0000410- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
411 Distutils.
412
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +0000413- Issue #7031: Add TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance() methods.
414
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +0000415- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an `array.array` to
416 `httplib.HTTPConnection.send`. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
417
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +0000418- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX
419 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
420
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +0000421- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
422
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +0000423- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
424
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +0000425- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
426 does now always result in NULL.
427
428- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize
429 correctly with base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +0000430
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +0000431- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing
432 debug message.
433
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +0000434- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
435
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +0000436- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
437
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +0000438- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
439 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
440 Michael Haubenwallner.
441
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +0000442- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
443 instances.
444
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +0000445- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
446 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
447 in long(Decimal('nan')).
448
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +0000449- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
450 with no type specifier.
451
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +0000452- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder revers to non-existing version.plist
453
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +0000454- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
455 repeatedly concatenating strings in httplib's
456 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
457 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
458
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +0000459- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
460 as documented.
461
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +0000462- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
463 names in the webbrowser module.
464
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +0000465- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
466
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +0000467- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
468 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
469
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +0000470- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
471
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +0000472- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
473
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +0000474- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
475
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +0000476- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
477
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +0000478- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
479
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +0000480- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
481 ScrolledText.
482
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +0000483- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
484
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +0000485- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
486 the xview* and yview* methods.
487
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +0000488- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
489 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
490 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
491 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
492
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +0000493- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
494 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
495
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +0000496- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
497 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
498 The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
499
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +0000500- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
501 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
502 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
503
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +0000504- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
505 opening an empty or very small file.
506
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +0000507- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
508 containing incomplete data.
509
510- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +0000511 behavior is similar when used with -O.
512
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +0000513- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
514
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +0000515- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
516 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
517 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
518
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +0000519- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +0000520
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +0000521- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
522 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
523 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
524 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
525
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +0000526- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
527
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000528- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
529
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +0000530- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
531 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
532
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000533- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +0000534
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000535- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +0000536 attribute.
537
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +0000538- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
539
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +0000540- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
541 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
542
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +0000543- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
544
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000545- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +0000546 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
547 descriptor errors
548
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000549- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +0000550 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
551
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +0000552- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
553
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +0000554- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated
555 a 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
556 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
557
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +0000558- Issue #6314: logging.basicConfig() performs extra checks on the "level"
559 argument.
560
561- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +0000562 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
563
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +0000564- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
565
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +0000566- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
567
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +0000568- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
569
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +0000570- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
571 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
572
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +0000573- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when annonymous.
574 (On Unix)
575
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +0000576- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
577 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
578 ``io`` module.
579
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +0000580- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
581
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000582- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
583 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
584
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +0000585- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
586
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +0000587- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
588 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
589 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
590
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +0000591- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
592
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +0000593- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
594 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
595
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +0000596- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
597
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +0000598- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
599 whitespace.
600
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +0000601- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
602 argument to the 'help' function.
603
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +0000604- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
605 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
606
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +0000607- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
608 the directory already exists.
609
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +0000610- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
611 specific Python version.
612
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +0000613- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
614 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
615 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
616
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +0000617- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
618 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000619
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +0000620- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
621 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
622 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
623
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +0000624- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
625 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
626
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000627- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +0000628 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
629
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +0000630- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
631
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +0000632- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
633 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
634
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000635- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +0000636 subcommand.
637
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +0000638- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
639 deepcopy()ing.
640
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +0000641- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
642
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +0000643- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
644
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +0000645- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
646
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +0000647- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
648 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
649
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +0000650- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
651 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
652
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +0000653- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
654 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
655
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +0000656- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
657 for old-style extensions.
658
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000659- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
660 trying to print a traceback.
661
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +0000662- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
663
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000664- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +0000665 ld is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
666
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +0000667- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
668 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
669 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
670 Cournapeau.
671
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +0000672- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
673 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
674
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +0000675- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
676 return directories.
677
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +0000678- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
679
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +0000680- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
681 looking for files given by a relative filename.
682
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +0000683- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
684 extracting a file to the root directory.
685
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +0000686- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
687
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +0000688- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
689 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
690 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
691
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +0000692- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
693 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
694
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +0000695- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
696 Contributed by Google.
697
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +0000698- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
699
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000700- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +0000701 anymore.
702
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +0000703- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
704
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +0000705- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
706 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
707 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
708
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +0000709- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
710 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
711 initialized before.
712
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +0000713- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
714 names which should not be exported.
715
716- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +0000717 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
718
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +0000719- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
720
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +0000721- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
722 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
723
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +0000724- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
725
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +0000726- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
727 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
728 instances.
729
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +0000730- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
731 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
732 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
733
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +0000734- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
735
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000736- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
737
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +0000738- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
739 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
740 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
741 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
742 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
743
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +0000744- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
745
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +0000746- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
747 a value in SafeConfigParser.
748
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +0000749- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
750
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000751- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +0000752 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
753
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +0000754- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are
755 now collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
756
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +0000757- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
758 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
759
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +0000760- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
761 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
762
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000763- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +0000764
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000765- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +0000766
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000767- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +0000768
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000769- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +0000770
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000771- Issue #1726172: fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +0000772
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000773- Issue #2625: added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +0000774 mailbox.MH.get_message().
775
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000776- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to mulitiprocessing.manager
Andrew M. Kuchling59631852009-04-09 11:23:36 +0000777 so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +0000778
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000779- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of the
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +0000780 object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added docs
781 to note the limitation
782
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000783- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +0000784 of the equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000785
786- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +0000787 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000788
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +0000789- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were added.
790 addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
791 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
792 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
793
794- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
795 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000796
797- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +0000798 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000799
800- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +0000801 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +0000802
803- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
804 called immediately before and after a test run.
805
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +0000806- Issue #5663: better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
807 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
808 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
809 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000810
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +0000811- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing
812
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +0000813- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
814 printing out values.
815
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +0000816- Issue #4572: added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
817
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +0000818- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
819 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
820 threads.
821
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +0000822- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
823
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +0000824- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
825
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +0000826- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
827 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
828 that it was failing to do localization.
829
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +0000830- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
831 Brandl.
832
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +0000833- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
834 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
835
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +0000836- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
837 with the threading module.
838
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +0000839- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
840
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +0000841- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
842
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +0000843- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
844 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
845
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000846- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +0000847 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
848 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
849
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +0000850- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not
851 defined (part of issue #5035).
852
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +0000853- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
854 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
855 output compared to previous Python versions.
856
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +0000857- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
858
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +0000859- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
860 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using
861 a with statement.
862
863- The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences in lists,
864 tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and comparison
865 specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error messages
866 actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google. [Issue #2578]
867
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +0000868- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
869 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
870 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
871 partial bzip2 compressed data.
872
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +0000873- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
874 even if an exception occurs.
875
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +0000876- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
877 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
878
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +0000879- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
880 specifier to Decimal.__format__
881
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +0000882- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
883 '>' alignment characters.
884
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +0000885- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
886 character.
887
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +0000888- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
889 Tim Golden.
890
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +0000891- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
892
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +0000893- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
894 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
895 window flashing.
896
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +0000897- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
898 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
899 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
900
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +0000901- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
902
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +0000903- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
904 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
905
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +0000906- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
907
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +0000908- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
909
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +0000910- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
911
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +0000912- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
913
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +0000914- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
915
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +0000916- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
917 ready received.
918
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +0000919- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
920 import guess_extension`` was used.
921
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +0000922- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
923 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
924
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +0000925- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
926 overrun.
927
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +0000928- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
929 bdist_rpm command.
930
931- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
932
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +0000933- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
934
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +0000935- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
936 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
937
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +0000938- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
939 in Distutils tests.
940
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +0000941- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
942 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000943
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +0000944- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
945 The file was resized to wrong size.
946
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +0000947- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
948
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +0000949- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +0000950 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
951
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +0000952- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +0000953 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
954
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +0000955- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
956 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
957
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +0000958- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
959
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +0000960- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on
961 LP64 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
962
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +0000963- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
964 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
965
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +0000966- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
967 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
968
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +0000969- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
970 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
971 ctime of the files involved.
972
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +0000973- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
974 deadlock.
975
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +0000976- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
977 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
978 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
979
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +0000980- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
981
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +0000982- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case.
983 This is a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
984
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +0000985- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
986 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
987
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +0000988- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
989 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
Nick Coghlanc3623b12009-02-08 01:46:01 +0000990 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
991 Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +0000992
Guilherme Polo363161a2009-02-06 22:48:07 +0000993- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
994 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
995 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
996 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +0000997
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +0000998- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +0000999 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
1000
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00001001- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
1002 Ross Light.
1003
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00001004- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
1005 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
1006
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001007- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00001008 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
1009
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00001010- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
1011
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00001012- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
1013 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
1014 "src.new").
1015
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001016- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00001017 Iterator and MutableSet.
1018
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00001019- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
1020
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001021- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00001022 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
1023
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00001024- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
1025 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
1026
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00001027- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
1028 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
1029
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00001030- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
1031
Raymond Hettingerd081abc2009-01-27 02:58:49 +00001032- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
1033 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00001034
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001035- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00001036 allowed non-integer arguments.
1037
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00001038- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
1039 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
1040 examples.
1041
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00001042- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
1043 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
1044
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00001045- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
1046 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
1047
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00001048- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
1049 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
1050
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001051- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00001052 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
1053 be disabled, and not compiled.
1054
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00001055- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
1056 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
1057 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
1058 traditional 2.x file object.
1059
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001060- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
1061 parameter was set.
1062
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001063- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
1064 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00001065 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001066
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00001067- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
1068 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
1069 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
1070
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00001071- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
1072 in sharedctypes.py.
1073
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00001074- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
1075 __getattr__.
1076
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00001077- Issue #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
1078 opened with other applications.
1079
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00001080- Issue #1162154: inspect.getmembers() now skips attributes that raise
1081 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
1082
1083- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00001084 counting.
1085
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00001086- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
1087
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00001088- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
1089 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
1090 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
1091 Jacques Frechet.
1092
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00001093- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
1094
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001095- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00001096 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
1097
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00001098- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
1099 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been
1100 deprecated for removal in 3.x
1101
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00001102- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
1103 to the decimal module.
1104
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00001105- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
1106 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
1107
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00001108- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
1109 the function is not a generator.
1110
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001111- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
1112 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00001113
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001114- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00001115 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
1116
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001117- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
1118 cast as floats.
1119
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001120- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001121 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
1122
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00001123- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
1124
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00001125- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
1126
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00001127- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
1128 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
1129
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00001130- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
1131 works as expected in the interactive environment.
1132
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00001133- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
1134 Gabriel Genellina.
1135
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00001136- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
1137
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00001138- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
1139
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00001140- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
1141 handling.
1142
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00001143- Issue #4574: fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
1144 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16)
1145 and gets split on a chunk boundary.
1146
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00001147- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
1148 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
1149 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
1150
1151- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
1152 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
1153 Alexander Belopolsky.
1154
1155- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
1156 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
1157 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
1158 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
1159 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
1160 Alexander Belopolsky.
1161
1162- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
1163 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
1164 Alexander Belopolsky.
1165
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00001166- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
1167 when given an unicode string.
1168
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00001169- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
1170
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00001171- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
1172 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
1173 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
1174
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00001175- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the
1176 --dry-run option.
1177
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00001178- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
1179 libs.
1180
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00001181- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
1182 statements.
1183
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00001184- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
1185 not a malformed option.
1186
Gregory P. Smith26576802008-12-05 02:27:01 +00001187- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00001188 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
1189
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00001190- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
1191 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
1192 Content-Disposition headers.
1193
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00001194- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
1195 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
1196 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
1197 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
1198 doesn't configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00001199
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00001200- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
1201 exception.
1202
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00001203- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if
1204 the ctypes module is not present.
1205
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00001206- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
1207
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00001208- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
1209
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00001210- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
1211 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
1212
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00001213- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
1214 and then remove it.
1215
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00001216- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
1217
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00001218- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
1219 debugging.
1220
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00001221- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
1222 inspect.getargvalues.
1223
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00001224- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
1225
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00001226- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
1227 to claiming it is Mature.
1228
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00001229- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
1230 when protocol 0 is used.
1231
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00001232- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
1233 to be consistent with Apple tools.
1234
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00001235- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001236 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00001237
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00001238- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
1239
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00001240- Issue #1737832 : plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
1241 module.
1242
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00001243- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process
1244 creates one of the needed subdirectories.
1245
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00001246- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script
1247
1248- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'
1249
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00001250- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
1251 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
1252
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00001253- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
1254 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
1255 and getservbyport().
1256
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00001257- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
1258 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
1259
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00001260- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
1261 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
1262
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00001263- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
1264 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
1265 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
1266
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00001267- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
1268
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00001269Tools/Demos
1270-----------
1271
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00001272- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
1273
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00001274- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
1275
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00001276Build
1277-----
1278
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00001279- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX:
1280 ``intel`` builds a distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures,
1281 while ``3-way`` builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386``
1282 and ``x86_64`` architectures.
1283
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00001284- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
1285
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00001286- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
1287
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00001288- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
1289 extensions are installed.
1290
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00001291- Issue 5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
1292 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
1293
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00001294- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
1295 and a python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
1296 Clinton Roy.
1297
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00001298- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
1299
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00001300- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
1301
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00001302- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
1303 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1304
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00001305- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00001306 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00001307
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00001308- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
1309
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00001310- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
1311
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00001312- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
1313
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00001314- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
1315
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00001316- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
1317
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00001318- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
1319
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00001320- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
1321
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00001322- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
1323
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00001324- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
1325
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00001326- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
1327
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00001328- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
1329
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00001330- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
1331
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00001332- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
1333
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00001334- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
1335
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00001336Documentation
1337-------------
1338
1339- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
1340 for Windows.
1341
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00001342- Issue #6801 : symmetric_difference_update also accepts |.
1343 Thanks to Carl Chenet.
1344
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001345C-API
1346-----
1347
Benjamin Petersonfe8745d2009-08-17 13:39:41 +00001348- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
1349 NULL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00001350
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00001351- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
1352 PyCode_Addr2Line().
1353
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00001354- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
1355 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
1356
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00001357- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
1358 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
1359
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00001360- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
1361
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00001362- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
1363 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
1364
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00001365- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
1366
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00001367- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
1368 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
1369
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001370- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
1371 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001372
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00001373- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall is now thread safe and can be used for
1374 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001375
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00001376Extension Modules
1377-----------------
1378
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00001379- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
1380
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00001381- Issue #3366: Add gamma function to math module.
1382
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00001383- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
1384 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that
1385 range.
1386
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00001387- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit
1388 on OSX.
1389
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00001390- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called
1391 with something other than a tuple as first argument.
1392
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00001393- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
1394 module.
1395
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00001396- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
1397
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00001398- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
1399 tokenizer not stopping.
1400
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00001401- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
1402 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
1403 matched characters with category 'No'.
1404
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00001405- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack
1406 with an integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range
1407 integer now consistently raises struct.error.
1408
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00001409- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies
1410 for the integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*'
1411 represents any of '=', '<', '>'.
1412
1413 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning.
1414 Previously it only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
1415
1416 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always
1417 result in struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method
1418 could be packed by 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h'
1419 ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a __long__ method could be packed by
1420 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with neither __int__ nor __long__,
1421 TypeError used to be raised (with a confusing error message) for
1422 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and struct.error in other cases.
1423
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00001424- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
1425
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00001426- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python
1427 GIL is now released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
1428
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00001429- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
1430 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
1431 implementations or external openssl library).
1432
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00001433- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00001434
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00001435- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
1436
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00001437- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
1438
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00001439- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
1440
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00001441- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
1442
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00001443- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
1444 OpenBSD.
1445
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00001446- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
1447
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00001448- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
1449
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00001450- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
1451
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00001452Tests
1453-----
1454
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00001455- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for argv and os.environ to runtest_inner
1456 in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them.
1457
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00001458- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
1459
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00001460- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
1461 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
1462
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00001463- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
1464 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
1465 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
1466 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
1467
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00001468- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
1469 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
1470
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00001471- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
1472 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
1473 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
1474 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
1475 can be adjusted to use it over time.
1476
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00001477- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
1478
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00001479- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
1480
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00001481- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
1482
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00001483- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001484 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00001485 from test support, which does the conversion.
1486
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00001487- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
1488
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00001489- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
1490 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
1491 incorrectly on __exit__.
1492
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00001493- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
1494
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001495
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001496What's New in Python 2.6 final
1497==============================
1498
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00001499*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001500
1501Core and Builtins
1502-----------------
1503
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00001504- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
1505 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
1506
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00001507- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
1508 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
1509
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00001510- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
1511
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001512Library
1513-------
1514
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00001515- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
1516 true singleton object.
1517
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00001518- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
1519 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
1520 into a float.
1521
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00001522- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
1523
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00001524- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
1525 sizes.
1526
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00001527- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
1528
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00001529- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
1530 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
1531
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001532Build
1533-----
1534
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00001535- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
1536 installer.
1537
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001538- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
1539
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001540
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001541What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
1542=============================================
1543
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00001544*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001545
1546Core and Builtins
1547-----------------
1548
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001549Extension Modules
1550-----------------
1551
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00001552- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
1553 segfault as a result.
1554
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001555- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
1556 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001557
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00001558Tools/Demos
1559-----------
1560
1561- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Misc/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
1562 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
1563 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
1564 are caught and silenced.
1565
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00001566Build
1567-----
1568
1569- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
1570 C runtime in the Windows installer.
1571
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001572
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001573What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
1574=============================================
1575
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00001576*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001577
1578Core and Builtins
1579-----------------
1580
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00001581- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
1582
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00001583- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
1584 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
1585 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
1586 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
1587 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
1588 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
1589 64bit values.
1590
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00001591- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
1592 error.
1593
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00001594- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
1595 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
1596 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
1597 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
1598
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00001599- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
1600 a unicode argument.
1601
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001602- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
1603
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001604- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001605 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001606 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
1607
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001608- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00001609 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
1610 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
1611 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
1612 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
1613 type object.
1614
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00001615- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
1616
1617- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
1618
1619- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
1620
1621- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
1622
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00001623- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
1624 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
1625
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00001626- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
1627 ``__delslice__``.
1628
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00001629- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
1630 library targets in the Makefile.
1631
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00001632- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
1633 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
1634 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
1635
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00001636C-API
1637-----
1638
1639- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
1640
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001641Library
1642-------
1643
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00001644- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
1645 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
1646
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00001647- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
1648
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00001649- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
1650
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001651- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
1652 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
1653 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
1654
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00001655- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
1656
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001657- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00001658 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
1659
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00001660- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
1661
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00001662- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
1663
1664- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00001665
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00001666- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
1667 its symbolic link.
1668
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001669- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
1670
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00001671- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
1672 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
1673 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
1674
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00001675- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
1676 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
1677
1678- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00001679
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00001680- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
1681 path to the Python binary.
1682
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00001683- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
1684 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
1685 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
1686 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
1687
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00001688- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
1689
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001690- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
1691
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00001692- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
1693
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00001694- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
1695
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001696- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
1697 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00001698
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00001699- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
1700 non-integer floating point number.
1701
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001702- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00001703 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
1704
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00001705Extension Modules
1706-----------------
1707
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00001708- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
1709 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
1710
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00001711- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
1712 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
1713 without limit.
1714
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00001715- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
1716 exploitation of poor argument checking.
1717
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00001718- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
1719
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00001720- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
1721 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
1722
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00001723- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
1724 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
1725 threads/processes.
1726
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00001727Tests
1728-----
1729
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001730- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
1731 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
1732 that expected warning messages are being reported.
1733
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00001734- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
1735
1736- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00001737
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00001738Build
1739-----
1740
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00001741- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
1742
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00001743- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
1744 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
1745
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00001746- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
1747
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00001748- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00001749 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00001750
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001751
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001752What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
1753================================
1754
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00001755*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001756
1757Core and Builtins
1758-----------------
1759
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00001760- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
1761 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
1762 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
1763 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
1764 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
1765 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
1766 default.
1767
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00001768- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
1769 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
1770
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00001771- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
1772 value again.
1773
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00001774- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
1775 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
1776 and introducing s*.
1777
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00001778- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
1779 object was stored in the freelist.
1780
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00001781- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
1782 ValueError consistently across platforms.
1783
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00001784- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
1785 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
1786 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
1787
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00001788- Apply security patches from Apple.
1789
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00001790- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
1791 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
1792
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00001793- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
1794 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
1795
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00001796- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
1797 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
1798 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
1799
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00001800- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
1801 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
1802 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
1803 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
1804 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
1805 failed have been fixed.
1806
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001807Library
1808-------
1809
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00001810- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
1811
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00001812- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
1813 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
1814
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00001815- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
1816 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
1817 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
1818
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00001819- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
1820 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
1821 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
1822 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
1823 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
1824 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
1825
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00001826- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
1827 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
1828
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00001829- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
1830
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00001831- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
1832
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00001833- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
1834
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00001835- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
1836 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
1837
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00001838- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00001839 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
1840
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00001841- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
1842 in a redirect.
1843
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00001844- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00001845 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00001846
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00001847- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
1848 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
1849
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00001850- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
1851 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
1852 regular expression.
1853
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00001854- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
1855 thread-safe.
1856
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00001857- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
1858 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
1859 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
1860
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00001861- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
1862
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00001863- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
1864 menu entries were not deleted.
1865
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00001866- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
1867 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
1868
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00001869- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
1870 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
1871
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00001872- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
1873 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
1874 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
1875
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00001876- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
1877 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
1878 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
1879
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00001880- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
1881 the reload() built-in has been removed.
1882
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00001883- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00001884 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00001885 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
1886 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
1887 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
1888 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
1889 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00001890
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00001891- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
1892 raised an AttributeError.
1893
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00001894- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00001895 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
1896 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00001897
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00001898- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
1899 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
1900
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00001901- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
1902
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00001903- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
1904 on a closed shelf.
1905
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00001906- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
1907
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001908- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
1909
1910- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
1911 invalid arguments.
1912
1913- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
1914 with None arguments.
1915
1916- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
1917 configuration files.
1918
1919- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
1920
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00001921- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
1922 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
1923 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
1924
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00001925- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
1926 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
1927 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
1928
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00001929Build
1930-----
1931
1932- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
1933
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00001934Documentation
1935-------------
1936
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00001937- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
1938 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
1939
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00001940- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
1941 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
1942 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
1943 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
1944
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001945
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00001946What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
1947================================
1948
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001949*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
1950
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00001951Core and Builtins
1952-----------------
1953
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00001954- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
1955 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
1956 an integer using operator.index().
1957
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00001958- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
1959 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
1960
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00001961- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
1962 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
1963
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00001964- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
1965 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
1966 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
1967
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00001968- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
1969 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
1970 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
1971 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
1972 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
1973 level.
1974
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00001975- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
1976 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
1977 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
1978 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
1979 all imports from that module to fail.
1980
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00001981- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
1982 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
1983 new-style classes.
1984
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00001985- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
1986 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
1987 another file in sys.stdout.
1988
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00001989- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
1990 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
1991 another thread's dictionary.
1992
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00001993- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
1994 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
1995 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
1996 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
1997 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
1998 10, -1).
1999
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002000- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
2001 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
2002 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00002003
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002004- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
2005 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
2006 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00002007
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002008Library
2009-------
2010
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00002011- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
2012 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
2013 error when they failed.
2014
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00002015- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
2016
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00002017- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
2018
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00002019- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
2020
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00002021- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
2022
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002023- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
2024 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
2025
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002026- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002027
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00002028- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
2029 a valid dlerror() message.
2030
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00002031- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
2032 incomplete structure was created.
2033
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00002034- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
2035
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00002036- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
2037
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002038- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00002039
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002040- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
2041 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002042 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002043 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
2044 merged into trunk.
2045
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00002046- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
2047
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002048- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
2049
2050- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
2051
2052- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
2053 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002054 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002055
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002056- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002057 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00002058
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00002059- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
2060 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
2061
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002062- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
2063 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
2064
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00002065- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
2066 interrupted by a signal.
2067
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002068- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00002069 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
2070 Prevents a deadlock.
2071
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00002072- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
2073 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
2074 default https port (443).
2075
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00002076- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
2077 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
2078 if the new process uses the threading module.
2079
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00002080Tests
2081-----
2082
2083- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
2084 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
2085 have been added to test_warnings.
2086
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00002087Build
2088-----
2089
2090- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
2091
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002092
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002093Documentation
2094-------------
2095
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00002096- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00002097 Python 3.0.
2098
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00002099- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
2100
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002101- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2102 Python 3.0.
2103
2104- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2105 Python 3.0.
2106
2107
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002108What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
2109================================
2110
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00002111*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002112
2113Core and Builtins
2114-----------------
2115
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00002116- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
2117 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
2118 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
2119 bus error.
2120
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00002121- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
2122 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
2123
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00002124- Add future_builtins.ascii().
2125
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00002126- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00002127 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00002128
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00002129- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
2130
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00002131- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
2132
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00002133- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
2134
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00002135- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
2136
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002137- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
2138 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
2139 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
2140 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00002141
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00002142- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
2143
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002144- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
2145 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00002146
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002147- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
2148 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00002149
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002150- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
2151 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
2152 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00002153
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00002154- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
2155 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
2156 can't be triggered from Python code.
2157
2158
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002159Extension Modules
2160-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00002161- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002162
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00002163- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
2164
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00002165- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00002166
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00002167- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
2168 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
2169
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00002170- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
2171 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
2172
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00002173- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
2174 weakref.proxy.
2175
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002176- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
2177 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00002178
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002179- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00002180
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00002181- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00002182 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
2183 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00002184
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002185- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
2186 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
2187 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00002188
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00002189- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
2190 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
2191 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
2192
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002193- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00002194
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00002195- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00002196
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002197Library
2198-------
2199
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00002200- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
2201 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
2202
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00002203- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
2204
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00002205- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
2206 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
2207 sense).
2208
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00002209- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
2210
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00002211- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
2212 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
2213 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
2214 the patch.
2215
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002216- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
2217 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
2218 the patch).
2219
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00002220- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
2221 os.uname exists.
2222
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00002223- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2224
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00002225- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2226
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00002227- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
2228 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
2229 pointer-like object.
2230
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00002231- Added the ast module.
2232
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002233- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00002234
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00002235- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
2236 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
2237
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00002238- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
2239 to errno.
2240
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002241- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00002242
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002243- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00002244 msilib.Record objects.
2245
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00002246- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
2247 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
2248
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00002249- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
2250 in Python 3.0.
2251
2252- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
2253 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00002254
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00002255- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
2256 False boolean value now.
2257
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00002258- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
2259 transfers.
2260
2261- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
2262 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00002263
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00002264- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
2265 when the TarFile is closed.
2266
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00002267- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
2268 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
2269 an exception.
2270
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00002271- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
2272 otherwise be produced.
2273
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00002274- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
2275 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
2276
2277- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
2278 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
2279
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00002280- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
2281 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
2282 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
2283
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00002284- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
2285
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002286- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00002287 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
2288 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
2289 'm' or 'c'.
2290
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00002291- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2292
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002293- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
2294 removal in Python 3.0.
2295
2296- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2297 3.0.
2298
2299- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2300 3.0.
2301
2302- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2303 3.0.
2304
2305- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00002306 Python 3.0.
2307
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00002308- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
2309 Python 3.0.
2310
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002311- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2312 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00002313
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002314- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2315 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00002316
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002317- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2318 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00002319
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002320- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2321 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00002322
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002323- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00002324 Python 3.0.
2325
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002326- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2327 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00002328
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002329- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2330 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00002331
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002332- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2333 3.0.
2334
2335- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
2336 removal in Python 3.0.
2337
2338- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2339 3.0.
2340
2341- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2342 3.0.
2343
2344- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
2345 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002347- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
2348 removal in Python 3.0.
2349
2350- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00002351 Python 3.0.
2352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002353- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2354 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00002355
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00002356- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2357 Python 3.0.
2358
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00002359- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2360 Python 3.0.
2361
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002362- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00002363
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00002364- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2365
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00002366- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2367
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00002368- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
2369
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00002370- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2371
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002372- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
2373 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
2374 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00002375
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002376- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
2377 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00002378
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00002379- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2380
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002381- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2382 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00002383
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00002384- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2385
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00002386- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2387
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00002388- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2389
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00002390- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2391
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00002392- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002394- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
2395 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00002396
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00002397- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2398
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00002399- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2400
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00002401- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
2402 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
2403 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
2404 OverflowError.
2405
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00002406- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002408- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2409 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00002410
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00002411- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2412
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00002413- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2414
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00002415- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2416
2417- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00002418
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002419- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2420
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00002421- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
2422
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00002423- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
2424
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00002425- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00002426
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002427- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
2428 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00002429
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002430- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002431 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
2432 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
2433 of Python.
2434
2435- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
2436 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
2437
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00002438- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
2439 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00002440
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002441Build
2442-----
2443
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00002444- 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 +00002445
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00002446- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
2447
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00002448- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
2449
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002450- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
2451 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002452 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002453
2454 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
2455
2456 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
2457
2458 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
2459
2460 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
2461
2462 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
2463
2464 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
2465
2466
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002467C API
2468-----
2469
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00002470- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
2471
2472- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002473
2474- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
2475 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
2476 PyString names.
2477
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00002478
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002479What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002480=================================
2481
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00002482*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002483
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002484Core and builtins
2485-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002486
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00002487- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
2488
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002489- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
2490 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00002491
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002492- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
2493 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00002494
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002495- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00002496
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00002497Extension Modules
2498-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002499
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002500- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
2501 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00002502
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00002503- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
2504
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002505- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
2506 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002508- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
2509 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002510
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002511- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
2512 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00002513
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002514- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
2515 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
2516 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
2517 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
2518 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
2519 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
2520 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
2521 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00002522
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002523Library
2524-------
2525
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00002526- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2527
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002528- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
2529 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00002530
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00002531- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
2532
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002533- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
2534 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00002535
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00002536- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
2537 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
2538 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
2539
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002540- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002541 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002542
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00002543- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00002544 reference to themselves.
2545
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00002546- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
2547 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
2548 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00002549
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00002550- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
2551 1900-01-01.
2552
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00002553- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
2554 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
2555
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00002556- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
2557 now implemented in C for better performance.
2558
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002559- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
2560 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
2561 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00002562
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002563- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00002564 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
2565 build documentation for more information.
2566
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00002567- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
2568 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
2569 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
2570 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
2571
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00002572- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
2573 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
2574 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
2575
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002576- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
2577 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
2578 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
2579 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00002580
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002581Tests
2582-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002583
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002584- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
2585 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
2586 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
2587 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
2588 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
2589 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
2590 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
2591 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
2592 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
2593 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
2594 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
2595 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
2596 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
2597 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
2598 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
2599 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
2600 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
2601 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
2602 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
2603 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
2604
2605 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
2606 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
2607 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
2608 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
2609 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
2610 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
2611 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
2612 access to the underlying socket used.
2613
2614 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
2615 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
2616 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002617
2618 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002619 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002620 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
2621 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
2622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002623 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
2624 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002625
2626Build
2627-----
2628
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00002629- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
2630
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00002631- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
2632 gcc is used as compiler.
2633
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002634- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002635 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002636
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002637C API
2638-----
2639
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002640- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
2641 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
2642 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
2643 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002644
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00002645- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00002646
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002647
2648What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
2649=================================
2650
2651*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
2652
2653Core and builtins
2654-----------------
2655
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002656- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
2657 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
2658 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00002659
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00002660- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
2661 cannot be executed.
2662
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00002663- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
2664 reference on the outer class name.
2665
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002666- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002667 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002668
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002669- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
2670 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00002671
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00002672- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002673
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00002674- Added backport of bytearray type.
2675
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002676- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
2677
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002678- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002679 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
2680 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
2681 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
2682 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
2683 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002684
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00002685- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
2686
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002687- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
2688 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00002689
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00002690- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002691
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00002692- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
2693
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002694- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
2695 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00002696
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002697- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
2698 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00002699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002700- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00002701 exception instances.
2702
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002703- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002704 doesn't derive from BaseException.
2705
2706- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
2707 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002708
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00002709- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
2710 memory usage in some circumstances.
2711
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002712- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
2713 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
2714 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00002715
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00002716- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
2717
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002718- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00002719 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
2720 longer passed.
2721
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00002722- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
2723
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002724- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
2725 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
2726 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00002727
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002728- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
2729 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002730
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00002731- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
2732
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00002733Extension Modules
2734-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00002735
2736- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
2737
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002738Library
2739-------
2740
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002741- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
2742 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002743
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002744- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
2745 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
2746 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002747
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002748- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
2749 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002751- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
2752 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
2753 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00002754
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002755- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
2756 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00002757
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00002758- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
2759
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00002760- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
2761 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
2762 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
2763
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00002764- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
2765
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00002766- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
2767 advertised in the docs.
2768
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002769- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00002770
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002771- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00002772
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002773- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
2774 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00002775
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00002776- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
2777 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
2778
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002779- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
2780 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00002781 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
2782 information as well.
2783
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002784- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
2785 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00002786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002787- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
2788 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00002789
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002790- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
2791 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
2792 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00002793
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00002794- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
2795 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
2796 strftime.
2797
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00002798- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002799 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
2800 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00002801
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00002802- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
2803 correctly under win32
2804
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002805- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00002806
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00002807- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002808 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
2809 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
2810 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00002811
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00002812- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
2813 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
2814
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002815- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
2816 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00002817
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002818- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
2819 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
2820 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00002821
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002822- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00002823 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
2824
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00002825- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
2826 from 't' to '?'.
2827
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002828- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
2829 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002830 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
2831 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
2832 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002833
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002834- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
2835 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00002836
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00002837Tests
2838-----
2839
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002840- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
2841 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00002842
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00002843- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
2844
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00002845- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
2846
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00002847- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
2848
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00002849- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
2850
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002851- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
2852 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00002853
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00002854- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
2855
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00002856- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
2857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002858- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
2859 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00002860
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00002861- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
2862
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00002863- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
2864
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00002865- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
2866 permission to create files in the root directory.
2867
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00002868Build
2869-----
2870
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00002871- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
2872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002873- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
2874 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00002875
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00002876- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002877
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002878C API
2879-----
2880
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002881- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002882 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
2883
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002884
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00002885What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
2886=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00002887
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00002888*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002889
2890Core and builtins
2891-----------------
2892
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00002893- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00002894 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00002895
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00002896- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
2897
2898- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00002899
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002900- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00002901 issue 215555 for a discussion.
2902
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00002903- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
2904 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
2905 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
2906 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
2907 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
2908 module is:
2909 from future_builtins import hex, oct
2910
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00002911- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
2912 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
2913 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
2914 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
2915 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
2916 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
2917
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00002918- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
2919 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
2920 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
2921 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
2922 PyObject_Format().
2923
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002924- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
2925 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
2926 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00002927
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002928- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002929 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
2930 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00002931
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002932- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
2933 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00002934
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002935- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
2936 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
2937 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00002938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002939- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
2940 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
2941 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00002942
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00002943- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
2944 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
2945
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002946- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
2947 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00002948
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002949- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
2950 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00002951 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
2952
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002953- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
2954 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
2955 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00002956
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002957- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
2958 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00002959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002960- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
2961 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00002962
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002963- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
2964 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00002965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002966- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
2967 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00002968
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002969- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
2970 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
2971 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00002972
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002973- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
2974 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
2975 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
2976 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00002977
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00002978- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
2979 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
2980 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
2981
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00002982- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00002983 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
2984 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
2985
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002986- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00002987 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
2988 support.
2989
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00002990- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
2991 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
2992
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00002993- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
2994
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002995- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00002996 added.
2997
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00002998- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
2999 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
3000
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003001- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
3002 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00003003
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003004- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
3005 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
3006 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00003007
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003008- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
3009 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00003010
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00003011- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
3012 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00003013
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00003014- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
3015
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003016- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
3017 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
3018 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00003019
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003020- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
3021 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
3022 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00003023
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003024- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00003025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003026- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
3027 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00003028
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003029- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003030 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
3031 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003032
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003033- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
3034 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
3035 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
3036 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00003037
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003038- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00003039
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003040- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
3041 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00003042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003043- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
3044 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00003045
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00003046- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00003047 SystemError.
3048
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00003049- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
3050 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
3051 __package__ attribute.
3052
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003053- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
3054 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
3055 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00003056
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00003057- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
3058
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003059- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00003060 attribute of an empty cell object.
3061
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003062- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
3063 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00003064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003065- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
3066 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
3067 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
3068 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00003069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003070- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
3071 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
3072 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00003073
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00003074- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
3075
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00003076- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
3077
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00003078- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
3079
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003080- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
3081 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
3082 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00003083
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003084- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
3085 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
3086 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
3087 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
3088 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
3089 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00003090
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003091- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
3092 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
3093 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
3094 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
3095 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00003096
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003097- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
3098 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
3099 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00003100
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003101- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
3102 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00003103
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003104- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003105 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
3106 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
3107 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
3108 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
3109 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003110
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003111- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
3112 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00003113
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00003114- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
3115 with %G.
3116
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003117- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
3118 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00003119
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003120- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00003121
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003122- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00003123
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003124- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003125 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
3126 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003127
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00003128- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
3129 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
3130
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00003131- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
3132 calls.
3133
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003134- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003135 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
3136 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003137
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00003138- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
3139
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003140- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00003141 inherited from a builtin base.
3142
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003143- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00003144 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
3145
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00003146- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
3147
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00003148- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
3149 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
3150 remaining characters.
3151
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00003152- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
3153 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
3154
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00003155- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
3156
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003157- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
3158 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
3159 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
3160 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
3161 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00003162 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
3163 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003164
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003165- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
3166 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
3167 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
3168 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
3169 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00003170
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003171- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
3172 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
3173 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00003174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003175- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
3176 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00003177
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003178- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
3179 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
3180 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00003181
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003182- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
3183 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00003184
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00003185- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
3186
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00003187- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
3188 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
3189
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003190- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003191 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
3192 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
3193 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003194
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00003195- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
3196 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
3197
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003198- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
3199 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00003200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003201- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
3202 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
3203 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00003204
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003205- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003206 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
3207 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003208
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003209- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
3210 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003211 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
3212 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003213
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003214- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
3215 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00003216
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003217- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
3218 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00003219
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00003220- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
3221 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
3222
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003223- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
3224 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
3225 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00003226
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003227- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
3228 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00003229
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003230- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
3231 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00003232
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003233- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
3234 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
3235 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00003236
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00003237- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
3238 frame's thread state.
3239
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003240- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
3241 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00003242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003243- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
3244 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00003245
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003246- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
3247 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00003248
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003249- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
3250 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00003251
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003252- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
3253 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00003254
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00003255- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
3256
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00003257- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
3258
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00003259- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
3260
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003261- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
3262 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00003263
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003264- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00003265
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00003266- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
3267 again, no longer the posix error code.
3268
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00003269- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
3270 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
3271
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003272- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
3273 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00003274
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00003275- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
3276 embedded in the string to convert.
3277
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00003278- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
3279 recognized and rejected.
3280
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003281- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
3282
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003283- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
3284 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
3285 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00003286
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00003287- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
3288 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
3289
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003290- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003291 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
3292 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003294- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
3295 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
3296 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00003297
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00003298- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
3299
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00003300- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
3301
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00003302- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
3303
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003304- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
3305 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
3306 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00003307
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00003308- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
3309 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
3310 'exceptions'.
3311
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00003312- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
3313 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
3314
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00003315- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
3316 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
3317
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00003318- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
3319
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00003320- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
3321
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00003322- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
3323 head is the original string if sep was not found.
3324
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003325- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003326 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
3327 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
3328 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003329
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003330- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00003331
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003332- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
3333 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003334
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003335- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
3336 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00003337
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003338- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00003339 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
3340 it actually exited.
3341
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003342
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003343Library
3344-------
3345
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003346- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00003347
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00003348- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
3349
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00003350- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
3351
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003352- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
3353 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00003354
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003355- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00003356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003357- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
3358 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
3359 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00003360
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003361- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
3362 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00003363
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003364- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00003365 (ignore-case)
3366
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00003367- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
3368 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
3369 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
3370 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
3371
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003372- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
3373 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00003374
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003375- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
3376 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00003377
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00003378- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
3379 pickled.
3380
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00003381- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
3382 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
3383
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00003384- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
3385 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
3386 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
3387
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003388- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
3389 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00003390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003391- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
3392 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
3393 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00003394
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003395- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
3396 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00003397
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003398- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
3399 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00003400
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003401- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
3402 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
3403 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
3404 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00003405
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003406- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
3407 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003408 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
3409
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00003410- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
3411
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003412- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
3413 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00003414
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003415- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00003416
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003417- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
3418 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003419
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003420- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
3421 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003422
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003423- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
3424 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003425
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003426- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
3427 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003428
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003429- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
3430 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
3431 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00003432
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003433- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
3434 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00003435
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003436- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
3437 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00003438
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003439- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
3440 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00003441
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003442- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
3443 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00003444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003445- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
3446 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00003447
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003448- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
3449 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00003450
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00003451- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
3452 with extended local headers.
3453
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003454- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
3455 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00003456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003457- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00003458 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
3459 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
3460
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003461- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
3462 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00003463
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003464- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
3465 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00003466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003467- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
3468 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00003469
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003470- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
3471 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00003472
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003473- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
3474 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00003475
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003476- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003477 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003478 Textbox.gather().
3479
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003480- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
3481 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00003482 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
3483 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003484
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00003485- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
3486 that array types do not live longer than needed.
3487
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003488- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
3489 and when creating a recursive instance.
3490
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003491- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
3492 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
3493 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00003494
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00003495- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
3496 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
3497 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
3498
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003499- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
3500 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00003501
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003502- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00003503 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
3504
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003505- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00003506 good for long regular expression matches.
3507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003508- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
3509 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00003510
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00003511- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
3512 the current context.
3513
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00003514- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
3515 zipfile module.
3516
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00003517- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
3518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003519- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
3520 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00003521
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00003522- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
3523
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00003524- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
3525
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003526- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
3527 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00003528
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00003529- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
3530
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003531- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
3532 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00003533
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003534- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
3535 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00003536
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00003537- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
3538
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00003539- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
3540 Tcl objects.
3541
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00003542- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
3543
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003544- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
3545 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
3546 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
3547 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00003548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003549- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
3550 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00003551
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003552- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
3553 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00003554
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003555- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
3556 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00003557
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003558- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
3559 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00003560
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00003561- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
3562 method used universal newlines.
3563
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00003564- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
3565 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
3566
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00003567- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
3568 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
3569
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00003570- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
3571 files are updated.
3572
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003573- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
3574 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003575
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00003576- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
3577 configured with --with-system-ffi.
3578
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003579- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003580 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003581
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00003582- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
3583
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003584- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
3585 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
3586 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00003587
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003588- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
3589 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00003590
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00003591- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00003592
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00003593- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
3594
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003595- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
3596 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00003597
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00003598- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
3599 to be orderable to properly represent them.
3600
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00003601- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
3602
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00003603- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
3604
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003605- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
3606 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
3607 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00003608
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00003609- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
3610 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
3611
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003612- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
3613 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00003614
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003615- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
3616 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00003617
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00003618- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
3619
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00003620- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
3621
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00003622- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
3623 syllables.
3624
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003625- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
3626 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00003627
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00003628- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
3629
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00003630- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
3631 represent the result in a single character.
3632
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00003633- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
3634
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00003635- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
3636
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00003637- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
3638 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
3639 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
3640
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00003641- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
3642
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003643- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
3644 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00003645
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003646- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
3647 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
3648 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00003649
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003650- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
3651 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
3652 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00003653
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003654- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003655 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
3656 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003657
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003658- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
3659 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00003660
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003661- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
3662 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00003663
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00003664- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3665
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00003666- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003668- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
3669 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
3670 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00003671
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00003672- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3673
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00003674- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3675
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00003676- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
3677 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
3678
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00003679- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
3680
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00003681- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
3682
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00003683- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
3684
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003685- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
3686 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00003687
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003688- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
3689 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00003690
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00003691- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
3692 the directories).
3693
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00003694- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
3695 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
3696 injecting HTML into the error page.
3697
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003698- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
3699 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00003700
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003701- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
3702 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003703
3704- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
3705
3706- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
3707
3708- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
3709 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
3710 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
3711
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00003712- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
3713 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
3714 ".cpp" too.
3715
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00003716- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003717 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
3718 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
3719 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00003720
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003721- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
3722 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00003723
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003724- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
3725 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00003726
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00003727- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
3728 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
3729 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
3730 closes patch #723312.
3731
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003732- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
3733 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00003734 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00003735
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00003736- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
3737
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00003738- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
3739 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
3740
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00003741- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
3742
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003743- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
3744 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00003745 directories.
3746
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00003747- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
3748 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
3749 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
3750 trying Mozilla variants.
3751
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00003752- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
3753
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00003754- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
3755 initialization failed.
3756
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00003757- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003758 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
3759 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00003760
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003761- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
3762 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
3763 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00003764
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003765- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
3766 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00003767 correctly now.
3768
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00003769- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
3770
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003771- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
3772 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00003773
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00003774- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
3775
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003776- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
3777 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
3778 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00003779
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003780- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
3781 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
3782 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
3783 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00003784
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003785- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
3786 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
3787 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00003788
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00003789- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
3790 whitespace while wrapping.
3791
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00003792- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003793 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
3794 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00003795
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003796- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
3797 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
3798 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00003799
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00003800- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
3801 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
3802
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003803- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
3804 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00003805
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00003806- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
3807 concatenation in robotparser.
3808
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00003809- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003810 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
3811 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00003812
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00003813- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
3814 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
3815
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00003816- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
3817
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003818- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
3819 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
3820 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00003821
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003822- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
3823 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
3824 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00003825
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003826- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
3827 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00003828 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00003829
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00003830- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
3831 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
3832
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00003833- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
3834 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
3835
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00003836- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
3837 returned string up to the first NUL character.
3838
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00003839- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
3840
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00003841- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
3842
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003843- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
3844 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
3845 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00003846
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00003847- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
3848
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003849- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
3850 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
3851 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
3852 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
3853 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
3854 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00003855
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003856- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
3857 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00003858
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00003859- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
3860 comprehensive test suite for the module.
3861
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00003862- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
3863 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
3864
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003865- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
3866 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
3867 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00003868
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003869- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00003870 in HTMLParser.
3871
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00003872- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
3873 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
3874
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00003875- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
3876
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00003877- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
3878
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00003879- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
3880
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00003881- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00003882
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00003883- Added itertools.izip_longest().
3884
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003885- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
3886 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00003887
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00003888- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
3889
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00003890- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
3891 doesn't exist.
3892
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00003893- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
3894
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00003895- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
3896
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003897- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00003898
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003899- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
3900 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00003901
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003902- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
3903 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00003904
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003905- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
3906 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00003907
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00003908- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003909 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00003910
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00003911- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
3912 iso8859_16.
3913
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003914- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
3915 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
3916 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
3917 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00003918
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003919- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
3920
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00003921- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
3922 directories.
3923
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00003924- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
3925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003926- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
3927 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00003928
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003929- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003930 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003931
3932- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003933 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003934
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003935- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003936
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003937- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
3938 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00003939
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00003940- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
3941
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00003942- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
3943 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
3944 parameterless foreign function calls work.
3945
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00003946- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
3947
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00003948- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
3949 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
3950 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
3951
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00003952- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
3953 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
3954
3955- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
3956 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
3957
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003958- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
3959 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
3960 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00003961
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003962- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
3963 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00003964
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00003965- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
3966
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003967- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
3968 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00003969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003970- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
3971 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00003972
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003973- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
3974 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00003975
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00003976- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
3977 separated lists read from logging config files.
3978
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003979- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
3980 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
3981 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00003982
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003983- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
3984 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00003985
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00003986- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
3987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003988- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
3989 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00003990
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00003991- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
3992
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00003993- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
3994
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003995- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
3996 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00003997
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00003998- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
3999 regular files.
4000
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00004001- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
4002
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004003- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
4004 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00004005
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004006- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
4007 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00004008
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00004009- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
4010 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
4011
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00004012- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
4013 file name mangling.
4014
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004015- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
4016 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00004017
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00004018- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
4019
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004020- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00004021 HTTPConnection.request().
4022
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00004023- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
4024 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
4025 objects.
4026
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004027- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
4028 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
4029 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00004030
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004031- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
4032 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
4033 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00004034
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004035- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00004036
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004037- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00004038
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00004039- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
4040
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004041- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004042 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004043
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00004044- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
4045
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00004046- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
4047 GNU modes.
4048
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00004049- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
4050 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
4051 opcode.
4052
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00004053- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
4054 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
4055 statement (bug #1586513).
4056
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004057- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
4058 correctly.
4059
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00004060- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
4061
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004062- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
4063 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00004064
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00004065- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
4066 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
4067 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
4068
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004069- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
4070 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
4071 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00004072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004073- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
4074 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00004075
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00004076- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
4077
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00004078- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
4079
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004080- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
4081 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00004082
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004083- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
4084 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00004085
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00004086- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
4087 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
4088
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00004089- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
4090 with a slash.
4091
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00004092- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
4093 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
4094
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00004095- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004096 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00004097
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00004098- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
4099 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
4100 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
4101
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004102- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
4103 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00004104
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004105- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
4106 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00004107
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004108- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
4109 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00004110
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00004111- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
4112
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004113- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00004114 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004115
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004116- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
4117 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00004118
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004119- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
4120 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004121
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00004122- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
4123
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004124- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
4125 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00004126
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004127- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
4128 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
4129 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004130
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004131- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
4132 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
4133 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00004134
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004135- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
4136 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
4137 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
4138 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00004139
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004140- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004141 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
4142 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004143 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
4144 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
4145 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004146
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004147- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
4148 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004149
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004150Extension Modules
4151-----------------
4152
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004153- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00004154
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00004155- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
4156
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00004157- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
4158
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004159- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00004160
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004161- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
4162 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00004163
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004164- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
4165 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00004166
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004167- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
4168 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00004169
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00004170- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
4171
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00004172- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
4173
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004174- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
4175 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004176
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00004177- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
4178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004179- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
4180 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00004181
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00004182- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
4183
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004184- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
4185 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00004186
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004187- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00004188 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
4189 parameter.
4190
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004191- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
4192 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
4193 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
4194 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00004195
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004196- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
4197 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00004198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004199- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
4200 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00004201
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004202- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
4203 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
4204 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00004205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004206- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
4207 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00004208
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00004209- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
4210
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00004211- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
4212
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004213- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
4214 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
4215 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00004216
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004217- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
4218 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00004219
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00004220- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
4221
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00004222- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
4223
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004224- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
4225 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
4226 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
4227 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00004228
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00004229- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
4230 get_completion_type to readline.
4231
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00004232- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
4233 structure.
4234
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00004235- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4236
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00004237- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
4238
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00004239- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
4240 intended for RECNO databases.
4241
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004242- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004243 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
4244 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
4245 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
4246 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
4247 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
4248 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004249
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00004250- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
4251
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00004252- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
4253
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004254- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
4255 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
4256 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
4257 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
4258 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00004259
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00004260- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
4261 error in spite of a succesful compression.
4262
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00004263- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
4264 of Py_ssize_t.
4265
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00004266- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
4267 fractional times. With unittest.
4268
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004269- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
4270 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
4271 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00004272
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00004273- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
4274
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00004275- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
4276
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00004277- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
4278
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00004279- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
4280
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004281- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
4282 builtin types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00004283
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004284- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
4285 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00004286
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004287- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
4288 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00004289
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00004290- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
4291 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
4292
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004293- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
4294 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
4295 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00004296
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00004297- Speed up function calls into the math module.
4298
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00004299- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
4300 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
4301 does.
4302
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00004303- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
4304
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00004305- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
4306
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00004307- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
4308
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00004309- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
4310
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00004311- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
4312 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
4313
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00004314- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
4315 datetime's strftime function.
4316
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00004317- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
4318
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00004319- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
4320
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004321- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
4322 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00004323
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00004324- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
4325
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004326- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004327 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
4328 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004329
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004330- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
4331 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00004332
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004333- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004334 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
4335 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004336 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
4337 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00004338 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004339 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004340
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004341- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
4342 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
4343 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
4344 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
4345
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00004346- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
4347 were transposed.
4348
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00004349- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
4350 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00004351
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004352- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
4353 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
4354 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004355
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004356- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
4357
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00004358- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
4359
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00004360- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
4361
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00004362- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004363
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00004364- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
4365 databases without a DBEnv.
4366
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00004367- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
4368
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004369Tests
4370-----
4371
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00004372- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00004373
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004374- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
4375 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00004376
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004377- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
4378 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
4379 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00004380
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00004381- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
4382 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00004383
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004384- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
4385 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00004386
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004387- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
4388 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
4389 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00004390
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00004391- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
4392
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004393- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
4394 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
4395 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00004396
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004397- Added some tests for modulefinder.
4398
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00004399- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
4400
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00004401- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
4402 number properly.
4403
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004404- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
4405 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004406
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004407Tools
4408-----
4409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004410- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
4411 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
4412 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
4413 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00004414
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004415- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
4416 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
4417 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00004418
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00004419- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
4420 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
4421
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004422- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
4423 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004424
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004425- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
4426 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004427
4428- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004429 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
4430 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004431
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004432
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004433Documentation
4434-------------
4435
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004436- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
4437 include new optional delay argument.
4438
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004439- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
4440 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
4441 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004442
4443- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
4444 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
4445
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00004446- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
4447 Python tutorial.
4448
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00004449- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
4450
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004451- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
4452 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00004453
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00004454- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
4455 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
4456
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00004457- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
4458 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
4459
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00004460- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
4461
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00004462- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
4463 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
4464
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00004465- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
4466 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
4467
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00004468- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
4469 docs.
4470
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00004471- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
4472
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00004473- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
4474 string pointed to by its parameter.
4475
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00004476- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
4477
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004478- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004479 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
4480 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
4481 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004482
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004483
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004484Tools/Demos
4485-----------
4486
4487- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004488
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004489- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004490 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
4491 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004492
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004493- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
4494 file not to get reported properly.
4495
4496
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004497Build
4498-----
4499
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004500- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
4501 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
4502 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00004503
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00004504- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
4505 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
4506
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00004507- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
4508
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004509- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004510
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004511- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
4512 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
4513 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
4514 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004516- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
4517 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004518
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00004519- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
4520
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00004521- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
4522 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
4523 without this option!
4524
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00004525- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
4526
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004527- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004528 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
4529 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
4530 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004531
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004532- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
4533 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00004534
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00004535- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
4536
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00004537- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
4538
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004539- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
4540 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00004541
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004542- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
4543 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00004544
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00004545- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
4546 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
4547 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
4548
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00004549- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
4550 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
4551
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00004552- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
4553
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00004554- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
4555
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004556- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
4557 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00004558
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004559- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00004560 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
4561
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004562- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
4563 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00004564
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00004565- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
4566
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004567- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00004568
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00004569- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
4570
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00004571- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
4572
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00004573- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004574
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004575- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
4576 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
4577 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00004578
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004579
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004580C API
4581-----
4582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004583- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
4584 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
4585 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
4586 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00004587
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004588- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
4589 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
4590 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004591
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004592- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004593
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004594- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
4595 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
4596 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004597
4598- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
4599
4600- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
4601 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
4602
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004603- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
4604 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
4605 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
4606 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004608- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
4609 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004610
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004611- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
4612 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
4613 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004614
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004615- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
4616 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004617
4618- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
4619
4620- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
4621
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004622- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
4623
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004624- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
4625
4626- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
4627 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
4628
4629- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
4630 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
4631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004632- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
4633 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
4634 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004635
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004636- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
4637 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004638
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004639- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
4640 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00004641
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004642
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004643Windows
4644-------
4645
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004646- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
4647 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
4648 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
4649 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00004650
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004651- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
4652 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004653
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00004654- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
4655
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004656
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004657Mac
4658---
4659
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00004660- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4661
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00004662- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4663
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004664- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4665 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
4666 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00004667
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00004668----
4669
4670**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**