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Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00001Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002+++++++++++
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Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00004What's New in Python 2.7.2?
5===========================
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7*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
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9Core and Builtins
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11
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +020012- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
13 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
14 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner97cf5852011-05-01 23:51:11 +020015 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +020016
Antoine Pitrou1f9eb152011-04-27 19:26:06 +020017- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
18 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
19 by Charles-François Natali.
20
Ezio Melottie3685f62011-04-26 05:12:51 +030021- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
22 accepted too.
23
Ezio Melottic283a852011-04-15 16:14:04 +030024- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
25 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
26 chars (e.g. u"\U00012345"[0]).
27
Victor Stinner5de51ac2011-04-09 16:09:08 +020028- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
29 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
30 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
31
Mark Dickinson874d59e2011-03-26 12:18:00 +000032- Issue #11144: Ensure that int(a_float) returns an int whenever possible.
33 Previously, there were some corner cases where a long was returned even
34 though the result was within the range of an int.
35
Antoine Pitrou2ddaaff2011-03-09 12:54:00 +010036- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
37 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
38
Antoine Pitrou3013b162011-01-18 19:06:19 +000039- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
40 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
41
Benjamin Peterson9b911ca2011-01-12 15:49:47 +000042- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
43 class.
44
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +000045- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
46 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
47 Patch by Matt Bandy.
48
Raymond Hettinger57a86892011-01-25 21:43:29 +000049- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
50
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcac514c82011-01-03 00:50:57 +000051- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
52 can now handle dates after 2038.
53
R. David Murray64a1e7c2010-12-15 01:36:03 +000054- Issue #4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly
55 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
56 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
57
Jesus Cea44e81682011-04-20 16:39:15 +020058- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
59 Patch by Torsten Becker.
60
Benjamin Peterson07f54512010-12-11 04:25:57 +000061- Issue #10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
62
Mark Dickinsonecf8ec62010-12-04 12:30:41 +000063- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
64 float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be
65 0.0, not -0.0.
66
Eli Bendersky680e6eb2011-03-04 06:14:56 +000067- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
68 empty, instead of OverflowError.
69
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +000070Library
71-------
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +000072
Victor Stinner112d48a2011-05-03 14:36:36 +020073- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
74 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
75
Senthil Kumaran011525e2011-04-28 15:30:31 +080076- Issue #10761: Fix tarfile.extractall failure when symlinked files are
77 present. Initial patch by Scott Leerssen.
78
Ezio Melotti34b32d62011-04-27 09:45:46 +030079- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
80 strings are too long.
81
Senthil Kumaran5dc68682011-04-26 21:17:45 +080082- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
83
Victor Stinner33feeab2011-04-18 16:33:28 +020084- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
85 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
86 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
87
Raymond Hettingere0156c42011-04-19 09:48:39 -070088- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
89 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
90
Martin v. Löwis2d253dd2011-04-17 22:29:40 +020091- Issue #11442: Add a charset parameter to the Content-type in SimpleHTTPServer
92 to avoid XSS attacks.
93
Senthil Kumaranddaea1c2011-04-15 18:07:33 +080094- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
95 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
96
Raymond Hettinger37c0fe52011-04-15 13:12:21 -070097- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
98
Senthil Kumarana99b7612011-04-14 12:54:35 +080099- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
100 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
101
Ezio Melotti2b96f092011-04-13 05:37:29 +0300102- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
103 _json is not available.
104
105- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran0531d6f2011-04-13 09:47:20 +0800106 url contains #fragment.
107
R David Murrayea8b6ef2011-04-12 21:00:26 -0400108- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
109 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
110
brian.curtin16f98b72011-04-11 18:05:33 -0500111- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
112 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
113
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +0300114- Issue #4877: Fix a segfault in xml.parsers.expat while attempting to parse
115 a closed file.
116
Raymond Hettingere4579c32011-04-11 17:27:42 -0700117- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
118 It was causing a failed import in the Turkish locale where the locale
119 sensitive str.upper() method caused a name mismatch.
120
Antoine Pitrou7dfc8742011-04-11 00:26:42 +0200121- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
122 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
123 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
124
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +0300125- Issue #7311: Fix HTMLParser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
Ezio Melotti9f1ffb22011-04-05 20:40:52 +0300126
Ross Lagerwall104c3f12011-04-05 15:24:34 +0200127- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
128
guido@google.com2bc23b82011-03-24 10:44:17 -0700129- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
guido@google.comdb3080e2011-03-28 13:53:40 -0700130 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +0000131
Benjamin Peterson77d46602011-03-28 17:32:31 -0500132- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
133 arguments.
134
Martin v. Löwis03f7e232011-03-27 20:58:52 +0200135- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
136
Mark Dickinsond687be02011-03-27 16:15:24 +0100137- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
138 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
139
Mark Dickinson1829e8f2011-03-27 15:32:05 +0100140- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
141 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
142 documentation.
143
Martin v. Löwis49b0ce02011-03-27 10:10:46 +0200144- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi.
145
Raymond Hettinger9aa5a342011-03-25 16:00:13 -0700146- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
147 that start with a leading underscore.
148
Mark Dickinsonf9e9a6f2011-03-25 22:01:06 +0000149- Issue #11673: Fix multiprocessing Array and RawArray constructors to accept a
150 size of type 'long', rather than only accepting 'int'.
151
Éric Araujo374274d2011-03-19 04:29:36 +0100152- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
153 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
154
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -0400155- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
156 setup and teardown.
157
Ronald Oussoren2ab59942011-03-16 09:47:15 -0400158- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
159 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
160 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
161
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -0400162- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
163 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussoren1aa999c2011-03-14 18:53:59 -0400164
Mark Dickinson2c8c62e2011-03-12 11:05:32 +0000165- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when
166 the context rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
167
Ned Deily9d4836e2011-03-09 02:31:55 -0800168- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
169 initialization fails.
170
Antoine Pitroud6f3a3e2011-03-06 02:03:34 +0100171- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
172 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
173 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
174
R. David Murray1a337902011-03-03 18:17:40 +0000175- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
176 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
177 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
178
Giampaolo Rodolàd65224f2011-03-03 14:17:51 +0000179- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
180 on accept(), send() and recv().
181
Antoine Pitroud3f6ea12011-02-26 23:35:27 +0000182- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
183 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
184
Antoine Pitrou6439c002011-02-25 21:35:47 +0000185- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
186 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
187
Georg Brandl28046022011-02-25 11:01:04 +0000188- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
189 argparse.
190
Antoine Pitrouf4d2b3d2011-02-21 23:59:20 +0000191- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
192 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
193 32-bit Windows.
194
Georg Brandl52f83952011-02-25 10:39:23 +0000195- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
196 membership of non-weakrefable objects.
197
198- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
199
200- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
201
Barry Warsaw42bb7ca2011-02-14 20:04:00 +0000202- Issue #11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix !=
203 --exec-prefix, which caused Python to not start.
204
R. David Murray008c0442011-02-11 23:03:13 +0000205- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
206 a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
207
Antoine Pitrou820021e2011-01-31 21:47:45 +0000208- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
209 Patch by Stan Mihai.
210
Ned Deily60651532011-01-31 00:52:49 +0000211- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
212 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
213 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
214
Ned Deily2a6f4b32011-01-30 00:18:47 +0000215- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
216 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
217 64-/32-bit installer variant.
218
Ned Deilyefc527a2011-01-29 19:30:39 +0000219- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
220 commands.
221
Vinay Sajipcdb83882011-01-21 23:35:57 +0000222- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
223
Antoine Pitrou8a0eede2011-01-20 21:20:18 +0000224- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
225 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
226
Antoine Pitrou63a3f152011-01-19 15:27:24 +0000227- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
228 a symbol named FSTAT.
229
Ned Deily4a705502011-01-18 04:33:22 +0000230- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
231 Cocoa AquaTk.
232
Antoine Pitrou9989d852011-01-15 16:18:57 +0000233- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
234 length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
235 is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
236
Terry Reedyf7dd7992011-01-10 22:15:19 +0000237- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
238
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +0000239- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime
240 function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
241 false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range
242 accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
243 dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
244 by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
245
Georg Brandl6adb9792011-01-09 07:53:14 +0000246- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
247 node twice.
248
Antoine Pitrou1f1613f2011-01-06 18:30:26 +0000249- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
250 on an existing file.
251
Antoine Pitrou77c1b382011-01-06 17:19:05 +0000252- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
253 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
254
Antoine Pitrou91ce0d92011-01-03 18:45:09 +0000255- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
256 file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
257 patch by Ross Lagerwall.
258
Antoine Pitroub0614612011-01-02 20:04:52 +0000259- Issue #4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
260 DeprecationWarning.
261
Raymond Hettinger8ebebd82011-01-02 01:03:26 +0000262- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
263
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100264- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
Senthil Kumaran559395f2010-12-29 06:30:19 +0000265 variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's
266 request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
267 params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
268
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100269- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
Terry Reedy0df73672010-12-28 19:53:32 +0000270
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100271- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murray08fc7012010-12-28 19:11:03 +0000272 browsers actually parse cookies.
273
R. David Murray5360d002010-12-27 19:17:17 +0000274- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
275 email.header.Header.encode.
276
R. David Murray5874ed62010-12-26 22:29:53 +0000277- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
278 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
279 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
280
Antoine Pitroufc9ead62010-12-21 21:26:55 +0000281- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
282
Daniel Stutzbach57cf0af2011-01-04 18:47:17 +0000283- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
Michael Foorde6e0e262010-12-19 15:52:56 +0000284 about input.
285
Michael Foorda17f0762010-12-19 14:53:19 +0000286- Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
287
Antoine Pitroud7b6ac62010-12-18 18:18:21 +0000288- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
289 to avoid denial of services from the other party.
290
R. David Murray3f752ab2010-12-18 17:22:18 +0000291- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
292
293- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray7a697252010-12-18 03:52:09 +0000294 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
295
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +0000296- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
297 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
298
Senthil Kumaran5c7fd6e2010-12-17 04:56:02 +0000299- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
300 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000301
Antoine Pitrou47d9b0e2010-12-16 17:11:34 +0000302- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
303 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
304
Éric Araujoe04c13c2010-12-15 21:15:25 +0000305- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
306
R. David Murraydacb8042010-12-14 14:34:16 +0000307- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
308 causes debug mode to fail.
309
Ronald Oussoren8ec374c2010-12-07 16:02:59 +0000310- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
311
Ronald Oussoren517858a2010-12-07 16:13:17 +0000312- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
313 platforms).
314
Antoine Pitrou4cb64ad2010-12-03 19:31:52 +0000315- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
316 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
317 current process.
318
Éric Araujofb3de6b2010-12-03 19:24:49 +0000319- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
320
R. David Murrayd75cc912010-12-02 03:16:23 +0000321- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
322
Gregory P. Smith312efbc2010-12-14 15:02:53 +0000323- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
324 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
325 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
326
Steven Bethardf8583ac2011-01-24 20:40:15 +0000327- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
328 argparse.FileType.
329
Steven Bethard3f69a052011-03-26 19:59:02 +0100330- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
331
332- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
333
Steven Bethard5e0062d2011-03-26 21:50:38 +0100334- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
335 their children.
336
Steven Bethardbc3b1042011-03-27 13:57:55 +0200337- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
338
Steven Betharde3c11b42011-04-04 01:47:52 +0200339- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
340
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +0000341Extension Modules
342-----------------
343
Benjamin Petersonf21ad922011-03-26 17:56:28 -0500344- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
345 to an instance of the class.
346
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +0000347- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
348
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +0000349Build
350-----
351
Thomas Wouters5edae7e2011-03-06 11:48:05 -0800352- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
353
Georg Brandl94800df2011-02-25 11:09:02 +0000354- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
355
356- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
357
Georg Brandl71f4fbb2011-02-25 11:04:50 +0000358- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
359
Ned Deilye6cc7d62011-02-21 21:00:09 +0000360- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
361 package had previously been installed.
362
Ned Deily68adfdc2011-02-07 16:52:25 +0000363- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac
364 OS X installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
365
Ned Deily53c460d2011-01-30 01:43:40 +0000366- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
367 the system-provided Python.
368
369- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X
370 32-bit installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
371 (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
372 support enabled).
373
Antoine Pitrou9828b562011-01-03 19:11:32 +0000374- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
375
Antoine Pitrou31e85952011-01-03 18:57:14 +0000376- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
377 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
378
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +0000379- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
380 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
381
David Malcolm4c29e1c2011-01-06 17:39:24 +0000382- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
383 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
384 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
385 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
386
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -0400387- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
388 using GCC 4.0.
389
Raymond Hettinger179816d2011-04-12 18:54:46 -0700390IDLE
391----
392
393- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
394 file in a package.
395
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +0000396Tests
397-----
398
Nadeem Vawdabafc6a92011-04-19 01:35:58 +0200399- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
400
Ross Lagerwallfe2f1ad2011-04-09 20:39:50 +0200401- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
402 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
403
Ned Deily5f511822011-04-05 17:16:09 -0700404- Issue #7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@'
405 or '.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
406
R David Murraycdd5fc92011-03-13 22:37:18 -0400407- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
408 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
409
Antoine Pitrou8bc59fa2011-01-12 18:56:09 +0000410- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
411 by Ross Lagerwall.
412
Antoine Pitrou8c688be2011-01-03 20:49:01 +0000413- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
414 in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
415 explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
416
R. David Murrayf8a63912010-12-14 16:26:30 +0000417- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
418 encountering them.
419
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +0000420- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
421 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
422
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000423
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +0000424What's New in Python 2.7.1?
425===========================
426
Benjamin Peterson3e0fa422010-11-27 14:40:29 +0000427*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +0000428
429Library
430-------
431
Éric Araujo54274ad2011-02-03 00:12:18 +0000432- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
433
434- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
435
Raymond Hettinger061bf7a2010-11-30 03:15:35 +0000436- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
437 inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
438 iterator was undefined.
439
Alexander Belopolsky1fea5c42010-11-30 01:18:17 +0000440- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
441 ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
442
Georg Brandl79f096a2010-11-26 07:57:57 +0000443- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
444
Martin v. Löwise03c7782010-11-22 10:53:46 +0000445- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
446
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +0000447- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
448
Senthil Kumaran9a5897b2010-11-29 12:41:03 +0000449- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
450
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +0000451- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
452 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
453
Georg Brandl86e0c892010-11-26 07:22:28 +0000454- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
455 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
456 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
457
Senthil Kumaran0b7cac12010-11-22 05:04:33 +0000458- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
459 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
460
Brian Curtin2d011ed2010-11-21 23:50:51 +0000461- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
462 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
463
Éric Araujo4fadd532010-11-20 20:02:41 +0000464- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
465
Georg Brandl839c1132010-11-20 11:29:38 +0000466- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
467 is called without data.
468
Benjamin Peterson4fec9ce2010-11-20 17:31:08 +0000469- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
470 end of the file.
471
Senthil Kumaran501bfd82010-11-14 03:31:52 +0000472- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
473
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +0000474Build
475-----
476
Brian Curtin69a106a2010-11-22 02:08:49 +0000477- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
478
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +0000479- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
480
Ezio Melotti2623a372010-11-21 13:34:58 +0000481Tests
482-----
483
484- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
485
Ezio Melottibf8484e2010-11-24 21:54:47 +0000486Documentation
487-------------
488
489- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
490
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +0000491
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +0000492What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
493===============================================
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000494
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +0000495*Release date: 2010-11-13*
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000496
497Core and Builtins
498-----------------
499
Raymond Hettinger2ad17e12010-10-30 08:17:46 +0000500- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
501 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
502
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000503- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
504 ``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +0000505
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000506- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
507 length of the offending line.
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +0000508
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +0000509- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
510 resolution.
511
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +0000512- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
513 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
514
Jesus Cea33c722b2010-11-04 21:39:52 +0000515- Issue #9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
516 warning.
517
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +0000518- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
519 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
520
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +0000521- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
522 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
523 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
524 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
525
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +0000526- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
527
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +0000528- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
529 thread-local storage key.
530
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +0000531- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
532 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
533 the same behaviour than the print statement.
534
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +0000535- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
536 a memoryview object.
537
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +0000538- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
539
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +0000540- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
541
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +0000542- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
543 of an array.
544
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +0000545- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
546
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +0000547- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
548 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
549
550 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
551 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
552
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +0000553- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
554 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000555
556Library
557-------
558
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100559- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +0000560
Antoine Pitrou7eaa4482010-11-09 23:15:18 +0000561- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
562 Lorenzo M. Catucci.
563
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +0000564- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
565 --enable-shared.
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +0000566
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +0000567- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
568
569- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
570
571- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
572 not in build_clib.
573
Éric Araujoe9954b52010-11-06 04:53:42 +0000574- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
575 Arfrever.
576
Éric Araujoe28665a2010-11-06 04:36:28 +0000577- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
578
Éric Araujod1feff72010-11-06 04:06:18 +0000579- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
580 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
581
Antoine Pitrou6b1167c2010-11-05 19:55:02 +0000582- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
583 its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
584
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000585- Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
586 from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
Michael Foorde5dc24e2010-11-01 22:11:53 +0000587
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000588- Issue #120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
589
590- Issue #6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
591 EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
592 instead.
Giampaolo Rodolà19e9fef2010-11-01 15:07:14 +0000593
Antoine Pitrou61d14b72010-10-31 16:17:36 +0000594- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
595 as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
596
Antoine Pitrou3917c092010-10-31 13:12:48 +0000597- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
598 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
599
Antoine Pitrou594a0462010-10-31 13:05:48 +0000600- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
601 for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
602
Raymond Hettingercbba8d42010-10-30 07:29:44 +0000603- Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
604
Antoine Pitrou638cee62010-10-28 14:50:57 +0000605- Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file
606 object with custom buffering from two threads at once.
607
Antoine Pitrou7f081022010-10-27 18:43:21 +0000608- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
609 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
610 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
611
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +0000612- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
613 initialization.
614
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +0000615- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
616 ntpath.relpath().
617
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100618- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +0000619 debugging in doctests.
620
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +0000621- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
622 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
623
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +0000624- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
625 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
626
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +0000627- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
628
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +0000629- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
630
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +0000631- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
632 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
633
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +0000634- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
635 gettext.
636
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +0000637- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
638 gname field.
639
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +0000640- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
641 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
642
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +0000643- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
644 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
645
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +0000646- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
647 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
648 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
649 with a timeout.
650
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +0000651- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
652
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +0000653- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
654
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +0000655- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
656
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +0000657- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
658
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +0000659- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
660 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
661
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +0000662- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
663 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
664 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
665 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
666 by Andrew Bennetts.
667
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +0000668- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
669 values: d['x'] = d.
670
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +0000671- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +0000672
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +0000673- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
674 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
675
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +0000676- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
677 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
678 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
679 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
680 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
681 to zero.
682
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +0000683- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +0000684 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +0000685 value.
686
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +0000687- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
688 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
689 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
690 original error is re-raised.
691
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +0000692- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
693 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
694 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
695
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +0000696- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
697 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
698
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +0000699- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
700 ConfigParser.write.
701
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +0000702- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
703 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
704
Terry Reedyd2d2ae92010-11-11 23:22:19 +0000705- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
706 can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
707 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
708
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +0000709- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
710 falling into recursion.
711
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +0000712- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
713 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
714
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +0000715- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
716 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
717
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +0000718- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +0000719 error handling when accepting a new connection.
720
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +0000721- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
722 errors.
723
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +0000724- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
725
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +0000726- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
727 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
728
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +0000729- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
730 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
731
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +0000732- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
733 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
734
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +0000735- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
736 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
737 overridden to provide ordered views.
738
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +0000739- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
740 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
741 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
742
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +0000743- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
744 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
745 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
746
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +0000747- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
748 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
749 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
750 patch by Jason V. Miller.
751
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +0000752- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
753 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
754
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +0000755- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
756 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
757
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +0000758- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
759 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
760 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
761
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +0000762- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
763 current node.
764
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +0000765- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
766
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +0000767- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
768 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
769
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +0000770- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
771 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
772 behavior was wrong.
773
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +0000774- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
775
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +0000776- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
777 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
778
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +0000779- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
780 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
781 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
782
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +0000783- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
784
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +0000785- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
786 the command line.
787
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +0000788- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
789 interactive browser.
790
791- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
792 regular expressions.
793
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +0000794- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
795 data generated with the profile module.
796
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +0000797- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
798 entries, consider the first one.
799
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +0000800- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
801 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
802
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +0000803- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
804 in the top-level debugged frame.
805
806- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
807 in doctests.
808
809- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
810 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
811
812- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
813 been reassigned.
814
815- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
816 a breakpoint command.
817
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +0000818- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
819 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
820
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +0000821- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
822 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
823
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +0000824- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
825
826- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
827 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
828
829- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
830 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
831
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +0000832- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
833
834- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
835
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +0000836- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
837 across devices.
838
839- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
840
841- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
842
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +0000843- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
844 string when Unicode was previously output.
845
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +0000846- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
847 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
848
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +0000849- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
850 utf-16 incremental encoders.
851
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +0000852- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
853
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +0000854- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
855 parameters.
856
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +0000857- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
858 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
859 XML-RPC request.
860
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +0000861- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
862
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +0000863- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
864 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
865 options).
866
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +0000867- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
868
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +0000869- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
870 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
871 (Jan Hosang).
872
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +0000873- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
874
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +0000875- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
876 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
877 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
878
879- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
880 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
881 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
882
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +0000883- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
884 strings in add_option calls.
885
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +0000886- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
887
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +0000888- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000889
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +0000890- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
891
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +0000892- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
893 for tracing methods.
894
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000895Extension Modules
896-----------------
897
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +0000898- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
899 with expat version 2.0.1.
900
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +0000901- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +0000902 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +0000903
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +0000904- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
905 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
906
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +0000907- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
908 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
909
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +0000910- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
911 interpreter by default.
912
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +0000913- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
914 to prevent crashes.
915
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +0000916- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
917 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
918 2**31 elements.
919
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +0000920- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
921
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +0000922- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
923 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
924
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +0000925- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
926 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
927
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +0000928- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
929
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +0000930- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
931
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +0000932- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
933
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +0000934- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
935 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
936 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
937 returns the same information as the id command.
938
939 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
940
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +0000941- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
942 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
943 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
944 char is unsigned.
945
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +0000946- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
947
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -0400948
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +0000949Tools/Demos
950-----------
951
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +0000952- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
953
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +0000954- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
955 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
956 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
957
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +0000958Build
959-----
960
Antoine Pitroue0c5f3c2010-10-27 20:35:26 +0000961- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
962
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +0000963- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
964 Akira Kitada.
965
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +0000966- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
967
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +0000968- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
969
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +0000970- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
971 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
972
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +0000973- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
974 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
975
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +0000976- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
977 Sablé.
978
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +0000979- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
980 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
981 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +0000982
983- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
984 Sébastien Sablé.
985
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +0000986- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
987
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000988- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
989 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +0000990
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000991- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
992 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
993 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +0000994
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +0000995- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
996 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
997 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
998
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +0000999- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
1000 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00001001
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00001002Tests
1003-----
1004
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +00001005- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
1006 in test_os)
1007
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +00001008- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
1009
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00001010- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
1011 case when running profile or trace, for example.
1012
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00001013- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00001014
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +00001015- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
1016
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +00001017- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
1018
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00001019- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
1020
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +00001021- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
1022
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +00001023- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
1024 Michele Orrù.
1025
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00001026- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
1027
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +00001028- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
1029
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00001030Documentation
1031-------------
1032
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +00001033- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
1034 to Doc/license.rst.
1035
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +00001036- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
1037 with os.kill.
1038
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001039- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
1040 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +00001041
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001042- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00001043
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001044
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00001045What's New in Python 2.7?
1046=========================
1047
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +00001048*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00001049
1050Core and Builtins
1051-----------------
1052
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +00001053- Prevent assignment to set literals.
1054
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00001055Library
1056-------
1057
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +00001058- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
1059 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
1060
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +00001061- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
1062
1063Extension Modules
1064-----------------
1065
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +00001066- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
1067 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00001068
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +00001069- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
1070 on an OpenSSL structure.
1071
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +00001072
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00001073What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
1074=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001075
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +00001076*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001077
1078Core and Builtins
1079-----------------
1080
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +00001081- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
1082
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +00001083- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
1084 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
1085 See tracker issue for details.
1086
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +00001087- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
1088 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
1089 (higher than 0x10000).
1090
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +00001091- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
1092 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +00001093
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +00001094Build
1095-----
1096
1097- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
1098
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001099Library
1100-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00001101
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00001102- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +00001103 raises an exception.
1104
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +00001105- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
1106 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
1107 and after calling foreign functions.
1108
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +00001109- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
1110 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
1111
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00001112- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
1113 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
1114
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +00001115- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001116
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00001117- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
1118 now honored in unittest debug methods.
1119
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +00001120Documentation
1121-------------
1122
1123- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
1124 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
1125
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00001126Misc
1127----
1128
1129- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
1130
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001131
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +00001132What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
1133=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001134
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +00001135*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001136
1137Core and Builtins
1138-----------------
1139
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +00001140- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
1141 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
1142 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
1143 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
1144 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
1145 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
1146 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
1147
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00001148- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +00001149 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
1150 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
1151 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
1152 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00001153
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +00001154- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
1155 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
1156 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
1157 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
1158 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
1159 in sets or dicts.
1160
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +00001161- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
1162 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
1163 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
1164
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +00001165- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
1166 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
1167
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001168- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
1169 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +00001170
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001171- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
1172 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +00001173
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00001174- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +00001175 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
1176
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00001177C-API
1178-----
1179
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001180- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
1181 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
1182 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00001183 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
1184
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001185Library
1186-------
1187
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +00001188- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
1189 reported as a skip rather than an error.
1190
1191- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
1192 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
1193 reports.
1194
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +00001195- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
1196
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +00001197- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
1198 accepted by the codecs module.
1199
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +00001200- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
1201
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +00001202- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
1203 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
1204
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +00001205- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
1206 mistake.
1207
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +00001208- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
1209 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
1210
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +00001211- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
1212 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
1213
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +00001214- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
1215 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +00001216
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +00001217- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
1218
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +00001219- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
1220
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +00001221- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
1222 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
1223 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +00001224
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00001225- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001226 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00001227
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +00001228- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
1229 of files without one.
1230
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001231- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +00001232 comparing to a non-mapping.
1233
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001234- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +00001235
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001236- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
1237 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +00001238
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +00001239- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
1240
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001241- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
1242 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
1243 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +00001244
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00001245Extension Modules
1246-----------------
1247
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +00001248- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
1249 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
1250 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
1251
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +00001252- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
1253 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
1254
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00001255- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001256 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001257
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00001258Tests
1259-----
1260
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +00001261- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
1262 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
1263
1264- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +00001265 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
1266
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +00001267- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
1268
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001269- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
1270 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
1271 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00001272
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +00001273Build
1274-----
1275
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +00001276- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
1277 releases.
1278
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00001279- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +00001280 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00001281
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +00001282Tools/Demos
1283-----------
1284
1285- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
1286
1287
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00001288What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
1289================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001290
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +00001291*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001292
1293Core and Builtins
1294-----------------
1295
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001296- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +00001297
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001298- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
1299 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
1300 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
1301 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
1302 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +00001303
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001304- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
1305 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +00001306
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +00001307- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
1308
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00001309- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001310 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00001311 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
1312 Charles-François Natali.
1313
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +00001314- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
1315 passed to bytearray.
1316
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001317- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +00001318
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001319- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +00001320
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001321- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
1322 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
1323 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +00001324
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001325Library
1326-------
1327
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001328- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
1329 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +00001330
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001331- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
1332 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +00001333
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001334- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00001335
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001336- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
1337 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
1338 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
1339 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00001340
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001341- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
1342 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +00001343
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +00001344- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
1345
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001346- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
1347 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +00001348
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001349- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
1350 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +00001351
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001352- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
1353 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
1354 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
1355 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
1356 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +00001357
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00001358- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001359 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
1360 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00001361
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +00001362- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
1363
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00001364- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
1365 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
1366
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001367- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
1368 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +00001369
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001370- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
1371 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +00001372
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001373- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +00001374 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
1375 "Include".
1376
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001377- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
1378 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +00001379
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001380- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
1381 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +00001382
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001383- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
1384 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +00001385
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001386- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
1387 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
1388 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +00001389
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001390- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
1391 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +00001392
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001393- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +00001394
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001395- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
1396 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +00001397
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001398- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +00001399
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001400- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
1401 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
1402 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
1403 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +00001404
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +00001405- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
1406 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
1407
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001408- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
1409 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +00001410
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +00001411- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
1412
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001413- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
1414 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +00001415
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001416- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
1417 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +00001418
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001419- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
1420 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
1421 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +00001422
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001423- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
1424 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00001425 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
1426 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
1427
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001428- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
1429 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
1430 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +00001431
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +00001432- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
1433
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001434- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
1435 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +00001436
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001437- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +00001438
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001439- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
1440 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +00001441
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001442- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
1443 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +00001444
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +00001445- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
1446
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +00001447- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
1448 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
1449
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001450- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +00001451 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
1452
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00001453- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001454 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
1455 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00001456
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00001457- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001458 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
1459 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00001460
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +00001461- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
1462
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001463- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
1464 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00001465
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00001466Extension Modules
1467-----------------
1468
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001469- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +00001470
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +00001471- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
1472
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00001473- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
1474
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001475- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
1476 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +00001477
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00001478Tests
1479-----
1480
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001481- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
1482 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
1483 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +00001484
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001485- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
1486 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +00001487
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +00001488- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
1489 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
1490
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001491- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
1492 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +00001493
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001494- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
1495 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00001496
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00001497Build
1498-----
1499
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001500- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +00001501 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
1502 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
1503 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
1504
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00001505- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
1506
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001507- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
1508 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +00001509
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001510- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +00001511
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +00001512Misc
1513----
1514
1515- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
1516
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001517
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001518What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
1519================================
1520
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +00001521*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001522
1523Core and Builtins
1524-----------------
1525
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +00001526- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
1527
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +00001528- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
1529 changed.
1530
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001531- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +00001532 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
1533 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
1534
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +00001535- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
1536
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001537- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +00001538
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +00001539- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
1540
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001541- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
1542 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
1543 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
1544 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
Antoine Pitrou01a196a2011-01-02 20:05:11 +00001545 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001546 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +00001547
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +00001548- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
1549 references.
1550
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001551- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
1552 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00001553
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00001554- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00001555
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00001556- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
1557 arguments to a function correct.
1558
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00001559- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
1560
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00001561- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001562 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
1563 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00001564 module.
1565
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00001566- Code objects now support weak references.
1567
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001568Library
1569-------
1570
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00001571- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
1572
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00001573- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001574 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
1575 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00001576
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00001577- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
1578
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001579- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
1580 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00001581
1582 >>> Decimal(1.1)
1583 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
1584
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00001585- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
1586
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001587- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
1588 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00001589
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001590- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
1591 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00001592
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001593- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
1594 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00001595
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001596- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
1597 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
1598 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
1599 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00001600
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001601- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
1602 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
1603 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
1604 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00001605
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00001606- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001607 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
1608 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
1609 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00001610
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001611- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
1612 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00001613
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00001614- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
1615 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001616 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00001617
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001618- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
1619 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
1620 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
1621 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00001622
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00001623- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
1624
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00001625- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
1626
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00001627- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
1628 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
1629
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00001630- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
1631
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00001632- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001633 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
1634 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00001635
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00001636- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
1637 deprecated.
1638
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001639- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
1640 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00001641
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001642- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
1643 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00001644
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001645- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
1646 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
1647 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00001648
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001649- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
1650 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00001651
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00001652- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
1653 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
1654 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00001655
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00001656- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
1657
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00001658- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
1659
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001660- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
1661 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
1662 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00001663
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00001664- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
1665 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
1666
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001667- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00001668
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001669- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
1670 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00001671
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001672- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
1673 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001674 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00001675
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00001676- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001677 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
1678 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
1679 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00001680
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001681- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00001682 cElementTree module is updated too.
1683
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00001684- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
1685
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001686- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00001687 classes.
1688
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001689- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
1690 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
1691 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
1692 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00001693
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00001694- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
1695 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
1696
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00001697- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
1698
1699- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
1700 during test runs.
1701
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00001702- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00001703 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
1704
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00001705Extension Modules
1706-----------------
1707
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00001708- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
1709
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00001710- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
1711
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00001712- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001713 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
1714 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00001715
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00001716- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
1717
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00001718- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
1719
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00001720- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
1721 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
1722 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
1723 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
1724
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001725- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
1726 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
1727 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001728 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
1729 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
1730 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
1731 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00001732
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001733- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
1734 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00001735
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00001736Tools/Demos
1737-----------
1738
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001739- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
1740 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
1741 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001742
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00001743- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
1744
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00001745Build
1746-----
1747
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001748- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
1749 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00001750
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001751- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
1752 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
1753 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00001754
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00001755- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
1756
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00001757- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
1758
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00001759- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
1760 assembly file.
1761
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00001762C-API
1763-----
1764
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00001765- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001766 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
1767 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00001768
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001769- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
1770 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
1771 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
1772 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00001773
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00001774Tests
1775-----
1776
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001777- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
1778 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00001779
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00001780- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
1781
1782- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
1783
1784- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
1785
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00001786- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
1787
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00001788- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
1789
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00001790- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
1791 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
1792
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00001793- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
1794 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00001795
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001796- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
1797 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00001798
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00001799
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001800What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
1801=================================
1802
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00001803*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001804
1805Core and Builtins
1806-----------------
1807
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001808- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
1809 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00001810
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001811- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
1812 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00001813
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00001814- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001815 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00001816
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00001817- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001818 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
1819 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00001820
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001821- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
1822 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00001823
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001824- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00001825 Parser/myreadline.c.
1826
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00001827- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001828 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00001829
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001830- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
1831 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00001832
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001833Library
1834-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00001835
Senthil Kumaranc1d0ed22010-12-04 09:58:29 +00001836- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
1837 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
1838 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
1839
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00001840- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
1841 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001842
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00001843- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
1844
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001845- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00001846 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00001847
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001848- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00001849 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
1850
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001851- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
1852 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00001853
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00001854- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001855 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00001856
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00001857- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00001858
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001859- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
1860 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00001861
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001862- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00001863
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001864- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
1865 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00001866
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001867- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
1868 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00001869
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00001870- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
1871
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001872- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
1873 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
1874 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
1875 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00001876
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001877- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
1878 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001879
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00001880- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
1881 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
1882 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001883
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00001884- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00001885 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00001886
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001887- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00001888
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001889- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00001890
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001891- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00001892
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001893- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
1894 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00001895
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00001896- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001897 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00001898
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001899- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00001900
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00001901- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
1902
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00001903Extension Modules
1904-----------------
1905
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001906- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00001907 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
1908
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00001909- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
1910
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001911- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00001912 handling.
1913
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00001914- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
1915 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001916
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001917- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00001918 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
1919 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
1920
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001921- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
1922 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00001923
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001924Tests
1925-----
1926
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001927- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
1928 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
1929 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00001930
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00001931- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
1932 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
1933
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001934- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
1935 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00001936
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001937- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00001938 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00001939
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001940- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00001941 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
1942
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001943- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
1944 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
1945 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
1946 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001947
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00001948Build
1949-----
1950
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00001951- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00001952
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001953
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001954What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
1955=================================
1956
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00001957*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001958
1959Core and Builtins
1960-----------------
1961
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00001962- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
1963 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001964 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
1965 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00001966
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00001967- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001968 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00001969
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001970- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
1971 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00001972
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001973- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00001974
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001975- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
1976 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00001977
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001978- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
1979 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
1980 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
1981 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00001982
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001983- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
1984 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
1985 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
1986 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00001987
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00001988- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
1989 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
1990 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
1991
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001992- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
1993 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00001994
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001995 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
1996 strings,
1997 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
1998 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
1999 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
2000 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
2001
2002- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
2003 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00002004
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00002005- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
2006
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00002007- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
2008
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00002009- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
2010
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002011Library
2012-------
2013
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00002014- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
2015 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
2016
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00002017- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
2018 interpreter shutdown.
2019
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002020- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
2021 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
2022 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
2023 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00002024
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002025- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00002026
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002027- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00002028
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002029- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00002030
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00002031- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002032 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00002033 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
2034 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
2035
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00002036- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
2037
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00002038- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002039 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
2040 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00002041 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
2042
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002043- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
2044 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
2045 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
2046 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
2047 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
2048 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00002049
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00002050- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
2051
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002052- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
2053 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00002054
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002055- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
2056 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00002057
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002058- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
2059 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
2060 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
2061 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00002062
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002063- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00002064 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
2065 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
2066
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002067- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00002068 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
2069
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002070- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
2071 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00002072
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002073- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
2074 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00002075
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002076- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
2077 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00002078
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002079- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
2080 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00002081
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00002082- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002083 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
2084 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00002085
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00002086Extension Modules
2087-----------------
2088
2089- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
2090 (CVE_2009_3560).
2091
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00002092Build
2093-----
2094
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002095- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
2096 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
2097 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00002098
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00002099- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
2100
2101- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
2102 MacOSX.
2103
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00002104- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
2105 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
2106
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00002107Tools/Demos
2108-----------
2109
2110- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002111 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00002112 sandbox.
2113
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00002114Tests
2115-----
2116
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002117- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00002118 instead of a hard coded port.
2119
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00002120Documentation
2121-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00002122
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002123- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
2124 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00002125
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002126- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00002127 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
2128
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002129
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002130What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
2131=================================
2132
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00002133*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002134
2135Core and Builtins
2136-----------------
2137
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002138- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
2139 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00002140
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00002141- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
2142 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
2143
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00002144- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002145 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
2146 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
2147 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
2148 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
2149 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00002150
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00002151- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
2152 AttributeError.
2153
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002154- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
2155 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00002156
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002157- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00002158
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00002159- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
2160 used to drop the time part of the result.
2161
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002162- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
2163 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
2164 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
2165 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00002166
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002167- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
2168 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
2169 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00002170
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002171- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00002172 executables on OSX.
2173
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002174 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
2175 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
2176 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00002177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002178- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
2179 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00002180
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00002181- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
2182
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002183- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
2184 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00002185
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00002186
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002187Library
2188-------
2189
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002190- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
2191 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
2192 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00002193
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002194- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
2195 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
2196 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00002197
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00002198- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002199 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
2200 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00002201 Xicluna.
2202
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002203- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
2204 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00002205
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002206- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
2207 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00002208
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002209- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
2210 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
2211 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00002212
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002213- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00002214 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
2215
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002216- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
2217 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00002218
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002219- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00002220 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
2221
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002222- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
2223 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00002224
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002225- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
2226 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00002227
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002228- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
2229 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
2230 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00002231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002232- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
2233 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00002234
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00002235- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
2236 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
2237 the same as passing no argument.
2238
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002239- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
2240 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00002241
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002242- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00002243
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002244- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00002245
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002246- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
2247 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00002248
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002249- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
2250 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002251
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002252- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
2253 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00002254
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00002255C-API
2256-----
2257
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002258- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
2259 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00002260
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002261- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
2262 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
2263 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
2264 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
2265 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
2266 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
2267 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00002268
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002269- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00002270
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00002271Build
2272-----
2273
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00002274- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
2275
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00002276- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002277 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00002278
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002279- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
2280 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
2281 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00002282
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00002283- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
2284 found.
2285
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00002286- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00002287
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002288- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
2289 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00002290
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00002291Tests
2292-----
2293
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002294- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00002295 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
2296
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002297- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00002298
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00002299- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
2300 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
2301
2302
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002303What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
2304================================
2305
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00002306*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002307
2308Core and Builtins
2309-----------------
2310
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002311- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
2312 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00002313
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002314- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
2315 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
2316 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00002317
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002318- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
2319 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00002320
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002321- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
2322 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
2323 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00002324
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002325- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00002326
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002327- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00002328
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002329- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
2330 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00002331
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002332- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
2333 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
2334 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
2335 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
2336 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
2337 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00002338
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002339- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
2340 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
2341 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
2342 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
2343 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
2344 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
2345 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00002346
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002347 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
2348 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
2349 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
2350 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
2351 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
2352 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
2353 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
2354 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
2355 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
2356 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00002357
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002358- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
2359 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
2360 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
2361 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
2362 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
2363 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
2364 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
2365 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00002366
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00002367- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
2368
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002369- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
2370 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00002371
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002372- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
2373 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00002374
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002375- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
2376 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00002377
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00002378- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
2379
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002380- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
2381 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
2382 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00002383
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002384- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
2385 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00002386
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002387- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
2388 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002389
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002390- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
2391 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00002392
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002393- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
2394 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
2395 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00002396
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002397- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
2398 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00002399
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00002400- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
2401 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
2402 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
2403 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
2404
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00002405- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
2406 assignment.
2407
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002408- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
2409 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00002410
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002411- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
2412 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00002413
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002414- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
2415 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00002416
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00002417- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00002418 take keyword arguments.
2419
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002420- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
2421 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00002422
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002423- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
2424 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00002425
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00002426- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
2427
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00002428- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
2429 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
2430
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00002431- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
2432
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002433- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00002434
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002435- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00002436 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
2437
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002438- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
2439 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00002440
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002441- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00002442
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002443- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00002444
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002445- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00002446 occurred in the argument chain.
2447
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00002448- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
2449
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002450- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
2451 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00002452
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002453- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00002454 separator and end should be unicode also.
2455
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00002456- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
2457 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00002458
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002459- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
2460 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
2461 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00002462
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00002463- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
2464
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00002465- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
2466 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
2467
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00002468- Removed the ipaddr module.
2469
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00002470- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
2471 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
2472
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002473- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00002474
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00002475- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
2476 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
2477
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00002478- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
2479
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002480- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
2481 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00002482
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00002483- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002484 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00002485
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002486- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
2487 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00002488
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00002489- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002490 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00002491
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00002492- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
2493 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
2494
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002495- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
2496 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
2497 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00002498
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00002499- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
2500
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002501- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
2502 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00002503
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002504- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00002505
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00002506- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00002507
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002508 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
2509 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
2510 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00002511
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002512- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
2513 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
2514 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
2515 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
2516 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
2517 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
2518 complex.__format__ in the same way.
2519
2520- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
2521 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
2522 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00002523
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00002524- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002525 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00002526
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002527- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
2528 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00002529
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002530- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
2531 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00002532
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002533- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
2534 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00002535
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002536- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
2537 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00002538
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00002539- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
2540 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
2541
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00002542- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
2543
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002544- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
2545 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00002546
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002547- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
2548 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00002549
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002550- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
2551 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00002552
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002553- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
2554 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00002555
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002556- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
2557 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00002558
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002559- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00002560 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00002561
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002562- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
2563 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00002564
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00002565- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
2566
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002567- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00002568
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002569- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
2570 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00002571
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002572- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00002573
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00002574- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
2575 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
2576
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00002577- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
2578
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002579- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
2580 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00002581
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00002582- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002583 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
2584 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
2585 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00002586
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002587- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
2588 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
2589 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00002590
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002591- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
2592 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
2593 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
2594 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
2595 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00002596
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00002597- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
2598 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
2599
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002600- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
2601 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
2602 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00002603
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002604- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
2605 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00002606
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002607- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00002608 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
2609
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002610- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
2611 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00002612
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002613- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
2614 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00002615
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002616- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
2617 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00002618
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00002619- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
2620 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
2621
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002622- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
2623 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00002624
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00002625- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
2626
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00002627- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00002628 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
2629 zip(), and bytearray().
2630
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00002631- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
2632 functions.
2633
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00002634- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
2635 OSError.
2636
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00002637- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
2638
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002639- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
2640 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
2641 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00002642
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00002643- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
2644 __next__ method.
2645
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00002646- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
2647
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00002648- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
2649
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00002650- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
2651 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
2652 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00002653 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00002654 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
2655
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00002656- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
2657
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002658- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
2659 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
2660 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
2661 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
2662 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00002663
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002664- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00002665
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00002666- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
2667 file with `str' filename on Windows.
2668
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00002669- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
2670 did not get collected.
2671
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002672- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
2673 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00002674
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00002675- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
2676 directory on POSIX systems.
2677
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00002678- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
2679 systems.
2680
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00002681- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002682 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00002683
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00002684- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
2685 fail.
2686
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002687- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
2688 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
2689 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00002690
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00002691- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
2692
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002693- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
2694 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00002695
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002696- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
2697 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00002698
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002699- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00002700
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002701- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
2702 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
2703 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
2704 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00002705
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00002706- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
2707 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
2708 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
2709
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002710- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
2711 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00002712
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00002713- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
2714 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
2715
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002716- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
2717 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
2718 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
2719 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00002720
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00002721- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
2722 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
2723
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002724- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00002725
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00002726- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
2727
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00002728- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
2729
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00002730- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
2731 exec statement.
2732
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002733- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
2734 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00002735
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00002736- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
2737 __future__ import didn't work.
2738
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00002739- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00002740 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00002741
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002742- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
2743 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
2744 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
2745 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00002746
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002747- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
2748 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
2749 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
2750 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00002751
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002752- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
2753 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00002754
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00002755- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
2756
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00002757- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
2758
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00002759- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
2760
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002761- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
2762 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00002763
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00002764- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
2765 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00002766
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00002767- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
2768 returned them on 64bit platforms.
2769
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00002770- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
2771 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
2772 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
2773 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
2774
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00002775- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
2776 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
2777
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002778- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
2779 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
2780 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
2781 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00002782
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002783Library
2784-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00002785
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00002786- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00002787
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00002788- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
2789
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002790- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
2791 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00002792
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002793- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00002794 TLS with authentication credentials.
2795
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002796- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
2797 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00002798
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00002799- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
2800 msvc9compiler.
2801
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002802- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
2803 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
2804 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00002805
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00002806- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
2807 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
2808 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
2809
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002810- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
2811 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00002812
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00002813- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
2814
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00002815- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002816 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00002817 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
2818
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002819- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
2820 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
2821 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00002822
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00002823- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
2824
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002825- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
2826 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00002827
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00002828- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
2829 raises ReadError on empty files.
2830
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002831- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00002832
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00002833- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
2834 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00002835
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002836- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
2837 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00002838
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002839- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
2840 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00002841
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002842- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00002843
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002844- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
2845 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00002846
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002847- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
2848 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00002849
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002850- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
2851 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
2852 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00002853 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
2854 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
2855
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002856- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
2857 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
2858 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00002859
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00002860- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002861 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00002862 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
2863
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002864- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
2865 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
2866 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00002867
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00002868- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
2869 which are part of a reference cycle.
2870
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002871- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
2872 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00002873
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002874- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00002875 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
2876 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
2877
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002878- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
2879 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
2880 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
2881 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00002882
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002883- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
2884 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
2885 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
2886 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00002887
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00002888- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
2889 header as required by RFC 1952.
2890
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00002891- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
2892 Distutils.
2893
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00002894- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
2895 an uppercase.
2896
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002897- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
2898 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00002899
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00002900- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
2901 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
2902
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00002903- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00002904 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
2905
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00002906- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
2907 protocol 2.
2908
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00002909- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
2910
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00002911- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
2912 larger than emax.
2913
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002914- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
2915 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00002916
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00002917- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
2918
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002919- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00002920
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00002921- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
2922
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002923- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00002924
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002925- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00002926
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00002927- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
2928 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002929
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002930- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
2931 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00002932
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002933- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
2934 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00002935
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002936- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00002937 Distutils.
2938
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002939- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00002940
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002941- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
2942 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00002943
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002944- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
2945 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00002946
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00002947- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
2948
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00002949- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
2950
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002951- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
2952 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00002953
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002954- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
2955 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00002956
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002957- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
2958 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00002959
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00002960- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
2961
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00002962- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
2963
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00002964- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002965 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
2966 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00002967
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002968- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00002969
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002970- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
2971 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
2972 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00002973
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002974- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
2975 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00002976
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002977- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00002978
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002979- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
2980 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
2981 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
2982 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00002983
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00002984- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
2985 as documented.
2986
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00002987- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
2988 names in the webbrowser module.
2989
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00002990- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
2991
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00002992- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
2993 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
2994
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00002995- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
2996
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00002997- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
2998
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00002999- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
3000
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00003001- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
3002
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00003003- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
3004
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00003005- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
3006 ScrolledText.
3007
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00003008- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
3009
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003010- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
3011 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00003012
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00003013- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
3014 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
3015 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
3016 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
3017
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00003018- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
3019 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
3020
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00003021- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003022 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
3023 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00003024
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003025- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
3026 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
3027 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00003028
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00003029- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
3030 opening an empty or very small file.
3031
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00003032- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
3033 containing incomplete data.
3034
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003035- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
3036 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00003037
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00003038- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
3039
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003040- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
3041 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
3042 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00003043
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00003044- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00003045
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003046- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
3047 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
3048 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
3049 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00003050
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003051- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00003052
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00003053- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
3054
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00003055- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
3056 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
3057
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00003058- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00003059
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00003060- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00003061 attribute.
3062
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00003063- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
3064
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00003065- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
3066 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
3067
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00003068- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
3069
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003070- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00003071 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003072 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00003073
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00003074- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00003075 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
3076
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00003077- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
3078
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003079- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
3080 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00003081 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
3082
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003083- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00003084 argument.
3085
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003086- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
3087 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00003088
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003089- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00003090
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00003091- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
3092
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00003093- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
3094
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00003095- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
3096 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
3097
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003098- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
3099 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00003100
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00003101- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
3102 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
3103 ``io`` module.
3104
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00003105- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
3106
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00003107- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003108 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
3109
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00003110- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
3111
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003112- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
3113 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
3114 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00003115
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00003116- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
3117
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003118- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
3119 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00003120
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00003121- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
3122
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00003123- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
3124 whitespace.
3125
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003126- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
3127 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00003128
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00003129- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
3130 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
3131
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003132- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
3133 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00003134
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003135- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
3136 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00003137
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00003138- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
3139 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
3140 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
3141
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00003142- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
3143 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003144
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003145- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
3146 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
3147 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00003148
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00003149- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
3150 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
3151
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003152- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00003153 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
3154
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003155- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00003156
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003157- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
3158 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00003159
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003160- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00003161 subcommand.
3162
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00003163- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
3164 deepcopy()ing.
3165
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003166- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00003167
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00003168- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
3169
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003170- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00003171
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003172- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00003173 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
3174
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00003175- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
3176 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
3177
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00003178- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003179 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00003180
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003181- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
3182 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00003183
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00003184- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
3185 trying to print a traceback.
3186
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00003187- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
3188
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003189- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
3190 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00003191
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003192- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
3193 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
3194 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00003195 Cournapeau.
3196
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003197- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003198 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00003199
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003200- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
3201 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00003202
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00003203- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
3204
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00003205- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
3206 looking for files given by a relative filename.
3207
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003208- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00003209 extracting a file to the root directory.
3210
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003211- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00003212
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003213- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
3214 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
3215 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00003216
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00003217- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
3218 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
3219
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00003220- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
3221 Contributed by Google.
3222
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00003223- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
3224
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003225- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00003226
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00003227- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
3228
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003229- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
3230 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00003231 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
3232
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003233- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00003234 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
3235 initialized before.
3236
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00003237- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
3238 names which should not be exported.
3239
3240- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003241 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00003242
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00003243- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
3244
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003245- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
3246 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00003247
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00003248- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
3249
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00003250- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003251 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00003252
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003253- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
3254 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
3255 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00003256
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00003257- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
3258
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003259- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
3260
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003261- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
3262 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
3263 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
3264 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
3265 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00003266
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003267- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00003268
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003269- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
3270 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00003271
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003272- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00003273
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003274- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003275 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00003276
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003277- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
3278 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00003279
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003280- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
3281 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00003282
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003283- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
3284 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00003285
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003286- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
3287 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00003288
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003289- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00003290
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00003291- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00003292
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003293- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00003294
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003295- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00003296
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003297- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00003298 mailbox.MH.get_message().
3299
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003300- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
3301 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00003302
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003303- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
3304 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
3305 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00003306
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003307- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
3308 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003309
3310- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00003311 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003313- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
3314 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00003315 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
3316 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
3317
3318- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
3319 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003320
3321- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00003322 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003323
3324- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00003325 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00003326
3327- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
3328 called immediately before and after a test run.
3329
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003330- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00003331 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
3332 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
3333 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003334
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003335- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00003336
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00003337- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
3338 printing out values.
3339
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003340- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00003341
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00003342- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
3343 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
3344 threads.
3345
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00003346- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
3347
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00003348- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
3349
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003350- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00003351 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
3352 that it was failing to do localization.
3353
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003354- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00003355 Brandl.
3356
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003357- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
3358 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00003359
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00003360- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
3361 with the threading module.
3362
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003363- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00003364
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00003365- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
3366
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003367- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
3368 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00003369
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003370- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003371 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
3372 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00003373
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003374- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
3375 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00003376
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00003377- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
3378 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
3379 output compared to previous Python versions.
3380
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00003381- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
3382
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00003383- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003384 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
3385 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00003386
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003387- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
3388 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
3389 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
3390 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00003391
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003392- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
3393 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
3394 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
3395 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00003396
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00003397- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
3398 even if an exception occurs.
3399
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00003400- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
3401 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
3402
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003403- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
3404 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00003405
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003406- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
3407 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00003408
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003409- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00003410 character.
3411
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003412- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
3413 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00003414
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003415- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00003416
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00003417- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003418 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
3419 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00003420
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003421- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
3422 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
3423 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00003424
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00003425- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
3426
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003427- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00003428 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
3429
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00003430- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
3431
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00003432- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
3433
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003434- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00003435
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00003436- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
3437
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00003438- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
3439
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00003440- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
3441 ready received.
3442
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00003443- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
3444 import guess_extension`` was used.
3445
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003446- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
3447 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00003448
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00003449- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
3450 overrun.
3451
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00003452- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
3453 bdist_rpm command.
3454
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003455- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00003456
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003457- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00003458
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00003459- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
3460 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
3461
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003462- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
3463 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00003464
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00003465- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
3466 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003467
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003468- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
3469 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00003470
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00003471- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
3472
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003473- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
3474 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00003475
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003476- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00003477 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
3478
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00003479- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
3480 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
3481
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003482- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00003483
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003484- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
3485 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00003486
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00003487- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
3488 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
3489
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00003490- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
3491 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
3492
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00003493- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003494 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00003495 ctime of the files involved.
3496
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00003497- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
3498 deadlock.
3499
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003500- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
3501 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
3502 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00003503
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00003504- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
3505
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003506- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
3507 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003508
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003509- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
3510 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00003511
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003512- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
3513 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
3514 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00003515
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003516- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
3517 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
3518 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
3519 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00003520
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003521- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00003522 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
3523
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003524- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
3525 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00003526
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00003527- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
3528 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
3529
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003530- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00003531 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
3532
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00003533- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
3534
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003535- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
3536 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00003537
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003538- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
3539 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00003540
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00003541- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
3542
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003543- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00003544 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
3545
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003546- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
3547 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00003548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003549- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
3550 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00003551
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00003552- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
3553
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003554- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00003555
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003556- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
3557 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00003558
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003559- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
3560 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00003561
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003562- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00003563 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
3564
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003565- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
3566 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00003567
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003568- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
3569 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00003570
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003571- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003572 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
3573 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00003574
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003575- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
3576 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
3577 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
3578 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00003579
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003580- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
3581 parameter was set.
3582
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00003583- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
3584 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00003585 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00003586
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00003587- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003588 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
3589 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00003590
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00003591- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
3592 in sharedctypes.py.
3593
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00003594- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
3595 __getattr__.
3596
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003597- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
3598 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00003599
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003600- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00003601 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
3602
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003603- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00003604
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00003605- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
3606
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00003607- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003608 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
3609 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00003610 Jacques Frechet.
3611
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00003612- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
3613
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003614- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00003615 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
3616
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00003617- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003618 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
3619 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00003620
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003621- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
3622 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00003623
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003624- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
3625 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00003626
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00003627- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
3628 the function is not a generator.
3629
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003630- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
3631 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00003632
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003633- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
3634 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00003635
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003636- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
3637 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00003638
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003639- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
3640 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00003641
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00003642- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
3643
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00003644- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
3645
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003646- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
3647 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00003648
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003649- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
3650 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00003651
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00003652- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
3653 Gabriel Genellina.
3654
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00003655- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
3656
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00003657- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
3658
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003659- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00003660
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003661- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
3662 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
3663 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00003664
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003665- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
3666 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003667 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
3668
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003669- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
3670 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
3671 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003672
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003673- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
3674 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
3675 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
3676 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
3677 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003678
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003679- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
3680 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003681
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00003682- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
3683 when given an unicode string.
3684
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00003685- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
3686
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003687- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
3688 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
3689 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00003690
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003691- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
3692 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00003693
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003694- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00003695
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003696- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00003697 statements.
3698
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00003699- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
3700 not a malformed option.
3701
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003702- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
3703 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00003704
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00003705- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
3706 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
3707 Content-Disposition headers.
3708
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00003709- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003710 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
3711 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
3712 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
3713 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00003714
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00003715- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
3716 exception.
3717
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003718- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
3719 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00003720
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00003721- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
3722
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00003723- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
3724
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00003725- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
3726 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
3727
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00003728- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
3729 and then remove it.
3730
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00003731- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
3732
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00003733- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
3734 debugging.
3735
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00003736- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
3737 inspect.getargvalues.
3738
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00003739- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
3740
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00003741- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
3742 to claiming it is Mature.
3743
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00003744- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
3745 when protocol 0 is used.
3746
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00003747- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
3748 to be consistent with Apple tools.
3749
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00003750- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003751 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00003752
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00003753- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
3754
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003755- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00003756 module.
3757
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003758- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
3759 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00003760
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003761- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00003762
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003763- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00003764
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00003765- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003766 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00003767
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00003768- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003769 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
3770 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00003771
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00003772- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
3773 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
3774
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003775- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
3776 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00003777
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00003778- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
3779 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
3780 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
3781
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00003782- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
3783
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00003784Tools/Demos
3785-----------
3786
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003787- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00003788
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003789- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00003790
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00003791Build
3792-----
3793
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003794- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
3795 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
3796 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00003797
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003798- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
3799 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
3800 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003801
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003802- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00003803
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00003804- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
3805
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003806- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003807 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00003808
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003809- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003810 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00003811
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003812- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
3813 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00003814
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00003815- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
3816
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00003817- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
3818
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003819- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
3820 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00003821
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00003822- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00003823 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00003824
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00003825- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
3826
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00003827- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
3828
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00003829- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
3830
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00003831- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
3832
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003833- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00003834
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00003835- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
3836
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00003837- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
3838
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00003839- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
3840
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00003841- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
3842
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00003843- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
3844
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00003845- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
3846
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00003847- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
3848
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003849- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00003850
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00003851- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
3852
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00003853Documentation
3854-------------
3855
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003856- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
3857 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00003858
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003859- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
3860 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00003861
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00003862C-API
3863-----
3864
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00003865- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
3866
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003867- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
3868 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00003869
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003870- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
3871 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00003872
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003873- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
3874 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00003875
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003876- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
3877 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00003878
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00003879- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
3880 PyCode_Addr2Line().
3881
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00003882- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
3883 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
3884
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00003885- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
3886 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
3887
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00003888- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
3889
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003890- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
3891 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00003892
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00003893- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
3894
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003895- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
3896 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00003897
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00003898- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
3899 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003900
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003901- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00003902 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00003903
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00003904Extension Modules
3905-----------------
3906
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00003907- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
3908
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00003909- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
3910
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003911- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00003912
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00003913- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003914 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00003915
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003916- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
3917 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00003918
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003919- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
3920 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00003921
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00003922- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
3923 module.
3924
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00003925- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
3926
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00003927- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00003928 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00003929
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003930- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
3931 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
3932 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00003933
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003934- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
3935 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
3936 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00003937
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003938- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
3939 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
3940 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00003941
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003942 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
3943 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00003944
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003945 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
3946 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
3947 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
3948 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
3949 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
3950 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
3951 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00003952
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003953 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
3954 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
3955 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00003956
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00003957- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
3958
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003959- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
3960 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00003961
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00003962- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
3963 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00003964 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00003965
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00003966- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00003967
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00003968- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
3969
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00003970- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
3971
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00003972- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
3973
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00003974- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
3975
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00003976- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
3977 OpenBSD.
3978
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00003979- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
3980
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00003981- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
3982
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00003983- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
3984
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00003985Tests
3986-----
3987
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003988- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
3989 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
3990 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00003991
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003992- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
3993 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00003994
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003995- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
3996 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00003997
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00003998- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
3999
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00004000- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
4001 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
4002
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00004003- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004004 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
4005 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
4006 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00004007
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004008- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
4009 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00004010
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00004011- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
4012 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
4013
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00004014- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
4015 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
4016 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00004017
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00004018- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
4019
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00004020- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
4021 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
4022
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00004023- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
4024 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004025 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
4026 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00004027
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00004028- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
4029 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
4030
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004031- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
4032 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
4033 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
4034 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
4035 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00004036
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00004037- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
4038
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00004039- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
4040
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00004041- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
4042
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004043- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
4044 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
4045 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00004046
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00004047- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
4048
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00004049- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
4050 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
4051 incorrectly on __exit__.
4052
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00004053- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
4054
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00004055Misc
4056----
4057
4058- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
4059
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004060
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00004061What's New in Python 2.6 final
4062==============================
4063
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00004064*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00004065
4066Core and Builtins
4067-----------------
4068
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00004069- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
4070 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
4071
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00004072- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
4073 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
4074
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00004075- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
4076
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00004077Library
4078-------
4079
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00004080- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
4081 true singleton object.
4082
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00004083- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
4084 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
4085 into a float.
4086
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00004087- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
4088
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00004089- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
4090 sizes.
4091
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00004092- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
4093
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00004094- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
4095 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
4096
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00004097Build
4098-----
4099
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00004100- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
4101 installer.
4102
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00004103- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
4104
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00004105
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004106What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
4107=============================================
4108
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00004109*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004110
4111Core and Builtins
4112-----------------
4113
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00004114Extension Modules
4115-----------------
4116
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00004117- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
4118 segfault as a result.
4119
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00004120- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
4121 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004122
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00004123Tools/Demos
4124-----------
4125
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00004126- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00004127 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
4128 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
4129 are caught and silenced.
4130
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00004131Build
4132-----
4133
4134- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
4135 C runtime in the Windows installer.
4136
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004137
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004138What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
4139=============================================
4140
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00004141*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004142
4143Core and Builtins
4144-----------------
4145
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00004146- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
4147
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00004148- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
4149 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
4150 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
4151 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
4152 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
4153 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
4154 64bit values.
4155
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00004156- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
4157 error.
4158
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00004159- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
4160 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
4161 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
4162 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
4163
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00004164- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
4165 a unicode argument.
4166
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00004167- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
4168
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00004169- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00004170 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00004171 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
4172
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00004173- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00004174 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
4175 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
4176 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
4177 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
4178 type object.
4179
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00004180- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
4181
4182- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
4183
4184- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
4185
4186- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
4187
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00004188- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
4189 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
4190
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00004191- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
4192 ``__delslice__``.
4193
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00004194- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
4195 library targets in the Makefile.
4196
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00004197- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
4198 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
4199 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
4200
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00004201C-API
4202-----
4203
4204- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
4205
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004206Library
4207-------
4208
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00004209- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
4210 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
4211
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00004212- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
4213
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00004214- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
4215
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00004216- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
4217 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
4218 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
4219
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00004220- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
4221
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00004222- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00004223 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
4224
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00004225- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
4226
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00004227- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
4228
4229- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00004230
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00004231- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
4232 its symbolic link.
4233
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00004234- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
4235
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004236- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00004237 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
4238 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
4239
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00004240- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
4241 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
4242
4243- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00004244
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00004245- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
4246 path to the Python binary.
4247
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004248- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00004249 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
4250 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
4251 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
4252
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00004253- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
4254
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00004255- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
4256
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00004257- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
4258
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00004259- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
4260
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00004261- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
4262 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00004263
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00004264- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
4265 non-integer floating point number.
4266
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00004267- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00004268 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
4269
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00004270Extension Modules
4271-----------------
4272
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00004273- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
4274 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
4275
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00004276- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
4277 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
4278 without limit.
4279
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00004280- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
4281 exploitation of poor argument checking.
4282
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00004283- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
4284
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00004285- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
4286 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
4287
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00004288- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
4289 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
4290 threads/processes.
4291
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00004292Tests
4293-----
4294
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00004295- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
4296 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
4297 that expected warning messages are being reported.
4298
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00004299- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
4300
4301- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00004302
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00004303Build
4304-----
4305
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00004306- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
4307
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00004308- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
4309 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
4310
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00004311- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
4312
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00004313- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00004314 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00004315
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004316
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004317What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
4318================================
4319
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00004320*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004321
4322Core and Builtins
4323-----------------
4324
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00004325- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
4326 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
4327 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
4328 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
4329 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
4330 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
4331 default.
4332
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00004333- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
4334 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
4335
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00004336- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
4337 value again.
4338
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00004339- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
4340 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
4341 and introducing s*.
4342
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00004343- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
4344 object was stored in the freelist.
4345
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00004346- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
4347 ValueError consistently across platforms.
4348
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00004349- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
4350 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
4351 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
4352
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00004353- Apply security patches from Apple.
4354
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00004355- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
4356 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
4357
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00004358- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
4359 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
4360
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00004361- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
4362 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
4363 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
4364
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00004365- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
4366 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
4367 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
4368 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
4369 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
4370 failed have been fixed.
4371
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004372Library
4373-------
4374
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00004375- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
4376
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00004377- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
4378 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
4379
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00004380- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
4381 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
4382 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
4383
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00004384- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
4385 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
4386 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
4387 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
4388 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
4389 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
4390
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00004391- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
4392 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
4393
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00004394- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
4395
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00004396- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
4397
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00004398- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
4399
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00004400- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
4401 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
4402
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00004403- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00004404 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
4405
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004406- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00004407 in a redirect.
4408
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00004409- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00004410 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00004411
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00004412- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
4413 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
4414
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00004415- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
4416 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
4417 regular expression.
4418
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00004419- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
4420 thread-safe.
4421
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00004422- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
4423 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
4424 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
4425
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00004426- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
4427
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00004428- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
4429 menu entries were not deleted.
4430
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00004431- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
4432 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
4433
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00004434- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
4435 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
4436
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00004437- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
4438 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
4439 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
4440
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00004441- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
4442 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
4443 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
4444
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00004445- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
4446 the reload() built-in has been removed.
4447
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00004448- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00004449 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00004450 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
4451 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
4452 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
4453 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
4454 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00004455
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00004456- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
4457 raised an AttributeError.
4458
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00004459- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00004460 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
4461 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00004462
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00004463- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
4464 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
4465
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004466- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00004467
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004468- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00004469 on a closed shelf.
4470
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00004471- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
4472
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004473- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
4474
4475- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
4476 invalid arguments.
4477
4478- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
4479 with None arguments.
4480
4481- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
4482 configuration files.
4483
4484- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
4485
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00004486- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
4487 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
4488 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
4489
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00004490- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
4491 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
4492 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
4493
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00004494Build
4495-----
4496
4497- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
4498
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00004499Documentation
4500-------------
4501
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00004502- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
4503 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
4504
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00004505- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
4506 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
4507 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
4508 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
4509
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004510
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00004511What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
4512================================
4513
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004514*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
4515
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00004516Core and Builtins
4517-----------------
4518
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00004519- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
4520 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
4521 an integer using operator.index().
4522
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00004523- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
4524 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
4525
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00004526- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
4527 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
4528
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00004529- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
4530 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
4531 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
4532
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00004533- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
4534 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
4535 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
4536 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
4537 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
4538 level.
4539
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00004540- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
4541 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
4542 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
4543 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
4544 all imports from that module to fail.
4545
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00004546- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
4547 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
4548 new-style classes.
4549
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00004550- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
4551 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
4552 another file in sys.stdout.
4553
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00004554- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
4555 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
4556 another thread's dictionary.
4557
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00004558- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
4559 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
4560 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
4561 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
4562 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
4563 10, -1).
4564
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00004565- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
4566 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
4567 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00004568
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00004569- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
4570 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
4571 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00004572
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00004573Library
4574-------
4575
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00004576- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
4577 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
4578 error when they failed.
4579
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00004580- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
4581
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00004582- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
4583
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00004584- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
4585
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00004586- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
4587
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00004588- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
4589 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
4590
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00004591- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00004592
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00004593- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
4594 a valid dlerror() message.
4595
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00004596- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
4597 incomplete structure was created.
4598
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00004599- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
4600
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00004601- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
4602
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004603- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00004604
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00004605- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
4606 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004607 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00004608 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
4609 merged into trunk.
4610
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00004611- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
4612
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00004613- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
4614
4615- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
4616
4617- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
4618 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00004619 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00004620
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00004621- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004622 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00004623
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00004624- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
4625 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
4626
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00004627- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
4628 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
4629
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00004630- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
4631 interrupted by a signal.
4632
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004633- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00004634 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
4635 Prevents a deadlock.
4636
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00004637- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
4638 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
4639 default https port (443).
4640
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00004641- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
4642 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
4643 if the new process uses the threading module.
4644
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00004645Tests
4646-----
4647
4648- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
4649 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
4650 have been added to test_warnings.
4651
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00004652Build
4653-----
4654
4655- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
4656
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00004657
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00004658Documentation
4659-------------
4660
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00004661- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00004662 Python 3.0.
4663
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00004664- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
4665
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00004666- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
4667 Python 3.0.
4668
4669- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
4670 Python 3.0.
4671
4672
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004673What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
4674================================
4675
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00004676*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004677
4678Core and Builtins
4679-----------------
4680
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00004681- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
4682 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
4683 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
4684 bus error.
4685
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00004686- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
4687 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
4688
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00004689- Add future_builtins.ascii().
4690
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00004691- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00004692 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00004693
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00004694- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
4695
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00004696- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
4697
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00004698- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
4699
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00004700- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
4701
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004702- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
4703 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
4704 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
4705 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00004706
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00004707- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
4708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004709- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
4710 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00004711
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004712- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
4713 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00004714
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004715- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
4716 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
4717 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00004718
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00004719- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
4720 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
4721 can't be triggered from Python code.
4722
4723
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004724Extension Modules
4725-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00004726- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004727
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00004728- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
4729
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00004730- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00004731
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00004732- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
4733 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
4734
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00004735- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
4736 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
4737
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00004738- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
4739 weakref.proxy.
4740
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004741- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
4742 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00004743
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00004744- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00004745
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00004746- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00004747 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
4748 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00004749
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004750- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
4751 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
4752 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00004753
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00004754- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
4755 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
4756 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
4757
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004758- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00004759
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00004760- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00004761
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004762Library
4763-------
4764
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00004765- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
4766 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
4767
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00004768- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
4769
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00004770- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
4771 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
4772 sense).
4773
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00004774- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
4775
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00004776- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
4777 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
4778 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
4779 the patch.
4780
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00004781- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
4782 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
4783 the patch).
4784
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00004785- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
4786 os.uname exists.
4787
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00004788- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
4789
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00004790- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
4791
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00004792- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
4793 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
4794 pointer-like object.
4795
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00004796- Added the ast module.
4797
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004798- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00004799
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00004800- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
4801 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
4802
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00004803- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
4804 to errno.
4805
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004806- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00004807
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00004808- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00004809 msilib.Record objects.
4810
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00004811- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
4812 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
4813
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00004814- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
4815 in Python 3.0.
4816
4817- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
4818 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00004819
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00004820- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
4821 False boolean value now.
4822
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00004823- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
4824 transfers.
4825
4826- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
4827 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00004828
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00004829- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
4830 when the TarFile is closed.
4831
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00004832- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
4833 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
4834 an exception.
4835
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00004836- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
4837 otherwise be produced.
4838
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00004839- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
4840 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
4841
4842- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
4843 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
4844
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00004845- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
4846 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
4847 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
4848
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00004849- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
4850
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004851- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00004852 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
4853 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
4854 'm' or 'c'.
4855
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00004856- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004858- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
4859 removal in Python 3.0.
4860
4861- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4862 3.0.
4863
4864- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4865 3.0.
4866
4867- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4868 3.0.
4869
4870- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00004871 Python 3.0.
4872
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00004873- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
4874 Python 3.0.
4875
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004876- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4877 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00004878
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004879- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4880 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00004881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004882- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4883 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00004884
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004885- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4886 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00004887
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004888- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00004889 Python 3.0.
4890
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004891- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4892 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00004893
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004894- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4895 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00004896
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004897- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4898 3.0.
4899
4900- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
4901 removal in Python 3.0.
4902
4903- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4904 3.0.
4905
4906- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4907 3.0.
4908
4909- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
4910 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00004911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004912- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
4913 removal in Python 3.0.
4914
4915- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00004916 Python 3.0.
4917
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004918- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4919 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00004920
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00004921- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
4922 Python 3.0.
4923
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00004924- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
4925 Python 3.0.
4926
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004927- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00004928
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00004929- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4930
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00004931- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4932
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00004933- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
4934
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00004935- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4936
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004937- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
4938 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
4939 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00004940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004941- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
4942 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00004943
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00004944- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4945
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004946- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
4947 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00004948
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00004949- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4950
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00004951- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4952
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00004953- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4954
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00004955- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4956
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00004957- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4958
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004959- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
4960 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00004961
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00004962- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4963
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00004964- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4965
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00004966- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
4967 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
4968 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
4969 OverflowError.
4970
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00004971- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4972
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004973- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
4974 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00004975
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00004976- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4977
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00004978- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4979
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00004980- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4981
4982- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00004983
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004984- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4985
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00004986- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
4987
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00004988- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
4989
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00004990- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00004991
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004992- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
4993 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00004994
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00004995- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00004996 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
4997 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
4998 of Python.
4999
5000- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
5001 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
5002
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00005003- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
5004 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00005005
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005006Build
5007-----
5008
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00005009- 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 +00005010
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00005011- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
5012
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00005013- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
5014
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00005015- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
5016 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005017 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00005018
5019 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
5020
5021 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
5022
5023 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
5024
5025 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
5026
5027 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
5028
5029 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
5030
5031
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00005032C API
5033-----
5034
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00005035- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
5036
5037- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00005038
5039- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
5040 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
5041 PyString names.
5042
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00005043
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005044What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00005045=================================
5046
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00005047*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00005048
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00005049Core and builtins
5050-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00005051
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00005052- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
5053
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005054- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
5055 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00005056
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005057- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
5058 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00005059
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005060- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00005061
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00005062Extension Modules
5063-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005065- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
5066 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00005067
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00005068- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
5069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005070- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
5071 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00005072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005073- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
5074 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00005075
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005076- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
5077 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00005078
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005079- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
5080 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
5081 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
5082 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
5083 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
5084 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
5085 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
5086 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00005087
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005088Library
5089-------
5090
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00005091- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5092
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005093- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
5094 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00005095
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00005096- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
5097
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005098- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
5099 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00005100
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00005101- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
5102 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
5103 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
5104
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00005105- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005106 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00005107
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00005108- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00005109 reference to themselves.
5110
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00005111- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
5112 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
5113 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00005114
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00005115- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
5116 1900-01-01.
5117
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00005118- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
5119 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
5120
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00005121- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
5122 now implemented in C for better performance.
5123
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005124- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
5125 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
5126 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00005127
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005128- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00005129 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
5130 build documentation for more information.
5131
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00005132- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
5133 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
5134 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
5135 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
5136
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00005137- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
5138 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
5139 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
5140
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005141- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
5142 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
5143 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
5144 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00005145
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005146Tests
5147-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00005148
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005149- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
5150 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
5151 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
5152 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
5153 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
5154 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
5155 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
5156 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
5157 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
5158 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
5159 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
5160 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
5161 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
5162 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
5163 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
5164 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
5165 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
5166 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
5167 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
5168 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
5169
5170 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
5171 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
5172 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
5173 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
5174 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
5175 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
5176 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
5177 access to the underlying socket used.
5178
5179 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
5180 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
5181 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00005182
5183 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005184 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00005185 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
5186 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
5187
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005188 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
5189 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005190
5191Build
5192-----
5193
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00005194- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
5195
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00005196- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
5197 gcc is used as compiler.
5198
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00005199- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005200 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00005201
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005202C API
5203-----
5204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005205- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
5206 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
5207 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
5208 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00005209
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00005210- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00005211
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005212
5213What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
5214=================================
5215
5216*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
5217
5218Core and builtins
5219-----------------
5220
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005221- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
5222 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
5223 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00005224
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00005225- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
5226 cannot be executed.
5227
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00005228- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
5229 reference on the outer class name.
5230
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00005231- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005232 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00005233
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005234- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
5235 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00005236
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00005237- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00005238
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00005239- Added backport of bytearray type.
5240
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00005241- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
5242
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00005243- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005244 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
5245 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
5246 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
5247 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
5248 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00005249
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00005250- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
5251
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005252- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
5253 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00005254
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00005255- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00005256
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00005257- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
5258
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005259- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
5260 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00005261
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005262- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
5263 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00005264
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005265- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00005266 exception instances.
5267
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00005268- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005269 doesn't derive from BaseException.
5270
5271- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
5272 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00005273
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00005274- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
5275 memory usage in some circumstances.
5276
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005277- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
5278 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
5279 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00005280
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00005281- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
5282
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005283- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00005284 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
5285 longer passed.
5286
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00005287- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
5288
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005289- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
5290 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
5291 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00005292
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005293- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
5294 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00005295
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00005296- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
5297
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00005298Extension Modules
5299-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00005300
5301- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
5302
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00005303Library
5304-------
5305
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005306- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
5307 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005308
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005309- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
5310 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
5311 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005312
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005313- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
5314 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005315
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005316- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
5317 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
5318 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00005319
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005320- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
5321 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00005322
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00005323- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
5324
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00005325- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
5326 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
5327 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
5328
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00005329- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
5330
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00005331- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
5332 advertised in the docs.
5333
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005334- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00005335
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005336- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00005337
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005338- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
5339 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00005340
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00005341- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
5342 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
5343
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005344- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
5345 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00005346 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
5347 information as well.
5348
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005349- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
5350 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00005351
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005352- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
5353 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00005354
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005355- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
5356 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
5357 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00005358
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00005359- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
5360 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
5361 strftime.
5362
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00005363- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005364 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
5365 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00005366
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00005367- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
5368 correctly under win32
5369
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005370- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00005371
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00005372- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005373 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
5374 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
5375 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00005376
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00005377- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
5378 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
5379
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005380- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
5381 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00005382
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005383- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
5384 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
5385 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00005386
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005387- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00005388 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
5389
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00005390- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
5391 from 't' to '?'.
5392
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00005393- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
5394 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005395 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
5396 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
5397 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00005398
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005399- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
5400 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00005401
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00005402Tests
5403-----
5404
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005405- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
5406 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00005407
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00005408- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
5409
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00005410- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
5411
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00005412- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
5413
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00005414- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
5415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005416- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
5417 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00005418
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00005419- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
5420
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005421- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00005422
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005423- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
5424 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00005425
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00005426- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
5427
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00005428- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
5429
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00005430- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
5431 permission to create files in the root directory.
5432
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00005433Build
5434-----
5435
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00005436- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
5437
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005438- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
5439 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00005440
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00005441- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00005442
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00005443C API
5444-----
5445
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005446- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005447 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
5448
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00005449
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005450What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
5451=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005452
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00005453*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005454
5455Core and builtins
5456-----------------
5457
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00005458- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00005459 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00005460
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00005461- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
5462
5463- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00005464
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005465- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005466 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00005467
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00005468- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
5469 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
5470 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
5471 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
5472 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
5473 module is:
5474 from future_builtins import hex, oct
5475
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00005476- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
5477 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
5478 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
5479 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
5480 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
5481 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
5482
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00005483- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
5484 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
5485 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
5486 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
5487 PyObject_Format().
5488
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005489- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
5490 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
5491 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00005492
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005493- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005494 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
5495 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00005496
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005497- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
5498 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00005499
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005500- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
5501 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
5502 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00005503
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005504- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
5505 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
5506 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00005507
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00005508- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
5509 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
5510
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005511- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005512 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00005513
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005514- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
5515 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00005516 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
5517
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005518- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
5519 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
5520 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00005521
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005522- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
5523 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00005524
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005525- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
5526 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00005527
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005528- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
5529 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00005530
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005531- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
5532 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00005533
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005534- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
5535 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
5536 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00005537
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005538- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
5539 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
5540 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
5541 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00005542
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00005543- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
5544 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
5545 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
5546
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00005547- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00005548 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
5549 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
5550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005551- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00005552 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
5553 support.
5554
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00005555- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
5556 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
5557
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00005558- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
5559
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005560- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00005561 added.
5562
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00005563- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
5564 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
5565
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005566- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
5567 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00005568
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005569- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
5570 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
5571 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00005572
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005573- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
5574 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00005575
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00005576- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
5577 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00005578
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00005579- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
5580
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005581- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
5582 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
5583 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00005584
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005585- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
5586 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
5587 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00005588
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005589- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00005590
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005591- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
5592 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00005593
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00005594- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005595 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
5596 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00005597
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005598- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
5599 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
5600 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
5601 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00005602
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005603- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00005604
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005605- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
5606 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00005607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005608- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
5609 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00005610
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00005611- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00005612 SystemError.
5613
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00005614- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
5615 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
5616 __package__ attribute.
5617
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005618- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
5619 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
5620 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00005621
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00005622- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
5623
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005624- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00005625 attribute of an empty cell object.
5626
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005627- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
5628 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00005629
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005630- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
5631 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
5632 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
5633 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00005634
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005635- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
5636 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
5637 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00005638
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00005639- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
5640
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00005641- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
5642
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00005643- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
5644
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005645- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005646 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
5647 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00005648
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005649- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
5650 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
5651 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
5652 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
5653 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
5654 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00005655
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005656- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
5657 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
5658 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
5659 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
5660 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00005661
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005662- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
5663 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
5664 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00005665
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005666- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
5667 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00005668
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00005669- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005670 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
5671 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
5672 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
5673 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
5674 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00005675
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005676- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
5677 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00005678
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00005679- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
5680 with %G.
5681
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005682- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
5683 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00005684
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005685- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00005686
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005687- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00005688
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00005689- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005690 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
5691 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00005692
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00005693- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
5694 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
5695
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00005696- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
5697 calls.
5698
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00005699- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005700 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
5701 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00005702
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00005703- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
5704
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005705- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005706 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00005707
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005708- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00005709 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
5710
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00005711- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
5712
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00005713- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
5714 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
5715 remaining characters.
5716
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00005717- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
5718 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
5719
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00005720- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
5721
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00005722- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
5723 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
5724 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
5725 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
5726 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00005727 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
5728 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00005729
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005730- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
5731 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
5732 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
5733 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
5734 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00005735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005736- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
5737 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
5738 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00005739
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005740- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
5741 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00005742
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005743- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
5744 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
5745 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00005746
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005747- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
5748 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00005749
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00005750- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
5751
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00005752- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
5753 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
5754
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00005755- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005756 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
5757 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
5758 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00005759
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00005760- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
5761 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
5762
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005763- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
5764 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00005765
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005766- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
5767 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
5768 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00005769
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00005770- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005771 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
5772 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00005773
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00005774- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
5775 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005776 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
5777 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00005778
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005779- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
5780 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00005781
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005782- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
5783 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00005784
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00005785- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
5786 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
5787
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005788- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
5789 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
5790 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00005791
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005792- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
5793 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00005794
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005795- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
5796 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00005797
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005798- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
5799 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
5800 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00005801
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00005802- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
5803 frame's thread state.
5804
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005805- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
5806 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00005807
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005808- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
5809 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00005810
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005811- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
5812 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00005813
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005814- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
5815 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00005816
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005817- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
5818 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00005819
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00005820- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
5821
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00005822- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
5823
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00005824- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
5825
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005826- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
5827 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00005828
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005829- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00005830
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00005831- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
5832 again, no longer the posix error code.
5833
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00005834- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
5835 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
5836
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005837- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
5838 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00005839
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00005840- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
5841 embedded in the string to convert.
5842
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00005843- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
5844 recognized and rejected.
5845
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00005846- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
5847
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00005848- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
5849 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
5850 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00005851
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00005852- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
5853 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
5854
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00005855- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005856 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
5857 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00005858
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005859- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
5860 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
5861 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00005862
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00005863- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
5864
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00005865- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
5866
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00005867- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
5868
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005869- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
5870 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
5871 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00005872
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00005873- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
5874 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
5875 'exceptions'.
5876
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00005877- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
5878 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
5879
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00005880- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
5881 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
5882
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00005883- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
5884
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00005885- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
5886
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00005887- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
5888 head is the original string if sep was not found.
5889
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00005890- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005891 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
5892 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
5893 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00005894
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005895- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00005896
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005897- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
5898 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005899
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00005900- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
5901 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00005902
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005903- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00005904 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
5905 it actually exited.
5906
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005907
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005908Library
5909-------
5910
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005911- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00005912
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00005913- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
5914
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00005915- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
5916
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005917- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
5918 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00005919
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005920- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00005921
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005922- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
5923 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
5924 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00005925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005926- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
5927 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00005928
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005929- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00005930 (ignore-case)
5931
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00005932- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
5933 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
5934 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
5935 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
5936
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005937- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
5938 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00005939
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005940- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
5941 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00005942
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00005943- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
5944 pickled.
5945
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00005946- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
5947 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
5948
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00005949- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
5950 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
5951 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
5952
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005953- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
5954 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00005955
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005956- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
5957 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
5958 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00005959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005960- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
5961 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00005962
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005963- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
5964 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00005965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005966- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
5967 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
5968 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
5969 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00005970
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005971- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
5972 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00005973 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
5974
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00005975- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
5976
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005977- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
5978 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00005979
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005980- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00005981
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005982- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
5983 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005984
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005985- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
5986 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005988- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
5989 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005990
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005991- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
5992 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005993
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005994- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
5995 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
5996 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00005997
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005998- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
5999 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00006000
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006001- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
6002 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00006003
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006004- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
6005 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00006006
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006007- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
6008 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00006009
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006010- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
6011 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00006012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006013- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
6014 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00006015
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00006016- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
6017 with extended local headers.
6018
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006019- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
6020 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00006021
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006022- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00006023 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
6024 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
6025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006026- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
6027 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00006028
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006029- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
6030 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00006031
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006032- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
6033 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00006034
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006035- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
6036 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00006037
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006038- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
6039 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00006040
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00006041- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006042 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00006043 Textbox.gather().
6044
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00006045- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
6046 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00006047 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
6048 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00006049
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00006050- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
6051 that array types do not live longer than needed.
6052
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00006053- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
6054 and when creating a recursive instance.
6055
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006056- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
6057 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
6058 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00006059
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00006060- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
6061 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
6062 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
6063
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006064- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
6065 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00006066
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006067- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00006068 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
6069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006070- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00006071 good for long regular expression matches.
6072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006073- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
6074 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00006075
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00006076- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
6077 the current context.
6078
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00006079- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
6080 zipfile module.
6081
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00006082- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
6083
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006084- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
6085 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00006086
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00006087- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
6088
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00006089- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
6090
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006091- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
6092 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00006093
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00006094- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
6095
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006096- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
6097 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00006098
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006099- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
6100 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00006101
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00006102- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
6103
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00006104- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
6105 Tcl objects.
6106
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00006107- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
6108
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006109- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
6110 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
6111 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
6112 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00006113
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006114- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
6115 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00006116
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006117- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
6118 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00006119
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006120- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
6121 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00006122
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006123- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
6124 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00006125
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00006126- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
6127 method used universal newlines.
6128
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00006129- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
6130 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
6131
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00006132- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
6133 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
6134
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00006135- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
6136 files are updated.
6137
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006138- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
6139 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00006140
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00006141- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
6142 configured with --with-system-ffi.
6143
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00006144- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00006145 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00006146
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00006147- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
6148
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006149- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
6150 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
6151 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00006152
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006153- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
6154 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00006155
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00006156- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00006157
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00006158- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
6159
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006160- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
6161 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00006162
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00006163- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
6164 to be orderable to properly represent them.
6165
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00006166- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
6167
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00006168- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
6169
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006170- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
6171 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
6172 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00006173
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00006174- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
6175 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
6176
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006177- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
6178 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00006179
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006180- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
6181 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00006182
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00006183- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
6184
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00006185- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
6186
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00006187- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
6188 syllables.
6189
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006190- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
6191 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00006192
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00006193- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
6194
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00006195- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
6196 represent the result in a single character.
6197
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00006198- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
6199
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00006200- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
6201
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00006202- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
6203 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
6204 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
6205
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00006206- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
6207
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006208- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
6209 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00006210
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006211- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
6212 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
6213 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00006214
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006215- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
6216 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
6217 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00006218
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00006219- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006220 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
6221 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00006222
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006223- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
6224 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00006225
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006226- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
6227 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00006228
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00006229- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6230
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00006231- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6232
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006233- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
6234 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
6235 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00006236
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00006237- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6238
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00006239- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6240
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00006241- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
6242 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
6243
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00006244- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
6245
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00006246- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
6247
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00006248- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
6249
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006250- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
6251 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00006252
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006253- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
6254 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00006255
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00006256- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
6257 the directories).
6258
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00006259- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
6260 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
6261 injecting HTML into the error page.
6262
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006263- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
6264 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00006265
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006266- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
6267 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006268
6269- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
6270
6271- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
6272
6273- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
6274 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
6275 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
6276
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00006277- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
6278 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
6279 ".cpp" too.
6280
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00006281- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006282 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
6283 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
6284 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00006285
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006286- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
6287 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00006288
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006289- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
6290 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00006291
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00006292- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
6293 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
6294 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
6295 closes patch #723312.
6296
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006297- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
6298 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00006299 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00006300
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00006301- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
6302
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00006303- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
6304 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
6305
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00006306- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
6307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006308- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
6309 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00006310 directories.
6311
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00006312- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
6313 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
6314 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
6315 trying Mozilla variants.
6316
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00006317- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
6318
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00006319- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
6320 initialization failed.
6321
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00006322- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006323 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
6324 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00006325
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006326- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
6327 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
6328 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00006329
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006330- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
6331 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00006332 correctly now.
6333
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00006334- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
6335
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006336- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
6337 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00006338
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00006339- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
6340
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006341- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
6342 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
6343 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00006344
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006345- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
6346 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
6347 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
6348 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00006349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006350- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
6351 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
6352 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00006353
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00006354- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
6355 whitespace while wrapping.
6356
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00006357- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006358 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
6359 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00006360
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006361- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
6362 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
6363 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00006364
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00006365- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
6366 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
6367
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006368- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
6369 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00006370
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00006371- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
6372 concatenation in robotparser.
6373
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00006374- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006375 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
6376 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00006377
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00006378- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
6379 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
6380
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00006381- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
6382
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006383- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
6384 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
6385 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00006386
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006387- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
6388 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
6389 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00006390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006391- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
6392 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00006393 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00006394
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00006395- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
6396 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
6397
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00006398- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
6399 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
6400
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00006401- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
6402 returned string up to the first NUL character.
6403
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00006404- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
6405
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00006406- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
6407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006408- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
6409 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
6410 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00006411
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00006412- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
6413
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006414- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
6415 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
6416 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
6417 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
6418 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
6419 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00006420
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006421- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
6422 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00006423
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00006424- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
6425 comprehensive test suite for the module.
6426
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00006427- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
6428 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
6429
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006430- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
6431 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
6432 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00006433
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006434- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00006435 in HTMLParser.
6436
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00006437- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
6438 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
6439
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00006440- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
6441
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00006442- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
6443
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00006444- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
6445
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00006446- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00006447
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00006448- Added itertools.izip_longest().
6449
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006450- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
6451 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00006452
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00006453- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
6454
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00006455- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
6456 doesn't exist.
6457
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00006458- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
6459
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00006460- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
6461
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006462- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00006463
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006464- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
6465 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00006466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006467- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
6468 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00006469
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006470- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
6471 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00006472
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00006473- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006474 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00006475
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00006476- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
6477 iso8859_16.
6478
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006479- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
6480 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
6481 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
6482 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00006483
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006484- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
6485
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00006486- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
6487 directories.
6488
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00006489- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
6490
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006491- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
6492 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00006493
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006494- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006495 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006496
6497- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006498 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006499
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006500- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006501
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006502- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
6503 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00006504
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00006505- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
6506
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00006507- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
6508 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
6509 parameterless foreign function calls work.
6510
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00006511- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
6512
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00006513- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
6514 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
6515 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
6516
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00006517- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
6518 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
6519
6520- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
6521 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
6522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006523- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
6524 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
6525 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00006526
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006527- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
6528 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00006529
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00006530- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
6531
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006532- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
6533 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00006534
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006535- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
6536 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00006537
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006538- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
6539 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00006540
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006541- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
6542 separated lists read from logging config files.
6543
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006544- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
6545 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
6546 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006547
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006548- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
6549 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00006550
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00006551- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
6552
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006553- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
6554 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00006555
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00006556- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
6557
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00006558- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
6559
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006560- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
6561 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00006562
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00006563- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
6564 regular files.
6565
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00006566- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
6567
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006568- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
6569 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00006570
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006571- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
6572 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00006573
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00006574- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
6575 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
6576
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00006577- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
6578 file name mangling.
6579
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006580- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
6581 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00006582
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00006583- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
6584
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006585- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00006586 HTTPConnection.request().
6587
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00006588- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
6589 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
6590 objects.
6591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006592- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
6593 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
6594 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00006595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006596- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
6597 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
6598 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00006599
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00006600- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00006601
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00006602- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00006603
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00006604- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
6605
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00006606- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00006607 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00006608
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00006609- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
6610
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00006611- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
6612 GNU modes.
6613
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00006614- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006615 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00006616 opcode.
6617
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00006618- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
6619 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
6620 statement (bug #1586513).
6621
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00006622- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
6623 correctly.
6624
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00006625- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
6626
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006627- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
6628 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00006629
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00006630- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
6631 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
6632 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
6633
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006634- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
6635 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
6636 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00006637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006638- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
6639 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00006640
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00006641- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
6642
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00006643- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
6644
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006645- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
6646 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00006647
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006648- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
6649 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00006650
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00006651- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
6652 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
6653
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00006654- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
6655 with a slash.
6656
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00006657- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
6658 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
6659
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00006660- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006661 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00006662
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00006663- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
6664 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
6665 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
6666
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006667- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
6668 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00006669
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006670- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
6671 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00006672
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006673- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
6674 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00006675
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00006676- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
6677
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00006678- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00006679 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00006680
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006681- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
6682 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00006683
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006684- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
6685 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006686
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00006687- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
6688
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006689- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
6690 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00006691
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006692- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
6693 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
6694 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00006695
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006696- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
6697 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
6698 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00006699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006700- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
6701 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
6702 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
6703 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00006704
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006705- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00006706 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
6707 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006708 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
6709 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
6710 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00006711
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006712- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
6713 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00006714
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006715Extension Modules
6716-----------------
6717
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00006718- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00006719
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00006720- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
6721
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00006722- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
6723
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00006724- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00006725
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006726- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
6727 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00006728
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006729- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
6730 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00006731
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006732- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
6733 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00006734
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00006735- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
6736
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00006737- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
6738
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006739- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
6740 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00006741
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00006742- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
6743
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006744- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
6745 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00006746
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00006747- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
6748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006749- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
6750 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00006751
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006752- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00006753 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
6754 parameter.
6755
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006756- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
6757 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
6758 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
6759 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00006760
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006761- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
6762 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00006763
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006764- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
6765 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00006766
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006767- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
6768 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
6769 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00006770
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006771- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
6772 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00006773
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00006774- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
6775
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00006776- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
6777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006778- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
6779 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
6780 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00006781
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006782- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
6783 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00006784
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00006785- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
6786
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00006787- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
6788
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006789- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
6790 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
6791 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
6792 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00006793
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00006794- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
6795 get_completion_type to readline.
6796
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00006797- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
6798 structure.
6799
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00006800- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
6801
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00006802- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
6803
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00006804- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
6805 intended for RECNO databases.
6806
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00006807- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006808 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
6809 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
6810 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
6811 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
6812 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
6813 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00006814
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00006815- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
6816
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00006817- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
6818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006819- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
6820 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
6821 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
6822 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
6823 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00006824
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00006825- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
6826 error in spite of a succesful compression.
6827
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00006828- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
6829 of Py_ssize_t.
6830
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00006831- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
6832 fractional times. With unittest.
6833
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006834- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
6835 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
6836 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00006837
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00006838- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
6839
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00006840- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
6841
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00006842- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
6843
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00006844- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
6845
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006846- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006847 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00006848
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006849- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
6850 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00006851
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006852- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
6853 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00006854
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00006855- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
6856 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
6857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006858- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
6859 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
6860 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00006861
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00006862- Speed up function calls into the math module.
6863
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00006864- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
6865 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
6866 does.
6867
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00006868- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
6869
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00006870- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
6871
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00006872- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
6873
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00006874- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
6875
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00006876- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
6877 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
6878
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00006879- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
6880 datetime's strftime function.
6881
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00006882- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
6883
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00006884- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
6885
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006886- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
6887 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00006888
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00006889- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
6890
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00006891- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006892 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
6893 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00006894
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006895- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
6896 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00006897
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00006898- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006899 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
6900 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00006901 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
6902 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00006903 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00006904 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006905
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00006906- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
6907 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
6908 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
6909 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
6910
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00006911- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
6912 were transposed.
6913
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00006914- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
6915 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00006916
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006917- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
6918 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
6919 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00006920
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00006921- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
6922
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00006923- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
6924
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00006925- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
6926
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00006927- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00006928
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00006929- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
6930 databases without a DBEnv.
6931
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00006932- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
6933
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006934Tests
6935-----
6936
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00006937- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00006938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006939- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
6940 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00006941
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006942- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
6943 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
6944 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00006945
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00006946- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
6947 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00006948
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006949- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
6950 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00006951
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006952- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
6953 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
6954 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00006955
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00006956- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
6957
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006958- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
6959 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
6960 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00006961
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00006962- Added some tests for modulefinder.
6963
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00006964- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
6965
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00006966- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
6967 number properly.
6968
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006969- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
6970 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006971
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006972Tools
6973-----
6974
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006975- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
6976 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
6977 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006978 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00006979
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006980- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
6981 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
6982 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00006983
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00006984- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
6985 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
6986
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006987- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
6988 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006989
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006990- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
6991 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006992
6993- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006994 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
6995 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006996
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006997
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006998Documentation
6999-------------
7000
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00007001- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
7002 include new optional delay argument.
7003
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007004- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
7005 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
7006 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007007
7008- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
7009 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
7010
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00007011- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
7012 Python tutorial.
7013
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00007014- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
7015
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007016- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
7017 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00007018
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00007019- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
7020 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
7021
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00007022- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
7023 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
7024
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00007025- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
7026
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00007027- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
7028 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
7029
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007030- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00007031 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
7032
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00007033- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
7034 docs.
7035
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00007036- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
7037
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00007038- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
7039 string pointed to by its parameter.
7040
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00007041- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
7042
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00007043- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007044 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
7045 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
7046 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00007047
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007048
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00007049Tools/Demos
7050-----------
7051
7052- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00007053
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00007054- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007055 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
7056 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00007057
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00007058- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
7059 file not to get reported properly.
7060
7061
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007062Build
7063-----
7064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007065- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
7066 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
7067 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00007068
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00007069- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
7070 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
7071
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00007072- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
7073
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007074- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007075
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007076- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
7077 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
7078 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
7079 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007080
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007081- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
7082 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007083
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00007084- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
7085
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00007086- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
7087 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
7088 without this option!
7089
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00007090- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
7091
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00007092- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007093 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
7094 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
7095 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00007096
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007097- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
7098 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00007099
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00007100- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
7101
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00007102- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
7103
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007104- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
7105 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00007106
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007107- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
7108 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00007109
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00007110- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
7111 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
7112 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
7113
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00007114- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
7115 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
7116
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00007117- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
7118
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00007119- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
7120
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007121- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
7122 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00007123
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007124- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00007125 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
7126
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007127- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
7128 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00007129
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00007130- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
7131
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007132- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00007133
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00007134- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
7135
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00007136- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
7137
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00007138- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007139
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007140- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
7141 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
7142 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00007143
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007144
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007145C API
7146-----
7147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007148- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
7149 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
7150 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
7151 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00007152
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007153- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
7154 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
7155 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00007156
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007157- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00007158
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007159- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
7160 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
7161 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007162
7163- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
7164
7165- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
7166 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
7167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007168- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
7169 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
7170 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
7171 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007172
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007173- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
7174 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007175
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007176- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
7177 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
7178 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007179
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007180- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
7181 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007182
7183- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
7184
7185- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
7186
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007187- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
7188
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007189- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
7190
7191- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
7192 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
7193
7194- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
7195 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
7196
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007197- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
7198 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
7199 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007201- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
7202 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007203
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007204- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
7205 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00007206
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007207
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00007208Windows
7209-------
7210
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007211- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
7212 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
7213 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
7214 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00007215
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007216- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
7217 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00007218
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00007219- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
7220
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00007221
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007222Mac
7223---
7224
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00007225- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7226
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00007227- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7228
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007229- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
7230 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
7231 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00007232
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00007233----
7234
7235**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**